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THE section of this handbook of plant anatomy at present under notice discusses briefly the ascertained facts as to the haustoria of the parasitic or semi-parasitic flowering plants. Dr. Sperlich divides them into three groups: he gives most space to the haustoria of (1) the Rhinantheae, Orobanchacese, and Balano-phoracese, and (2) the less parasitic Santalaceas, Loranthaceae, and Olacaceas, with which group he includes the wholly parasitic Rafflesiaceas. He puts in a special section, but discusses very briefly, the more root-like but still morphologically distinctive organ, the haustorium of Cuscuta. Curiously enough, with reference to recent papers recently referred to in NATURE of February 6, p. 210, and subsequent correspondence (NATURE, March 27, p. 452), no citation is given of the paper by Mrs. Thoday (Sykes) upon Cuscuta, and the question of the possible presence and function of the phloem in the haustorium is not touched upon.
Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie.
Prof.
K.
Linsbauer
Herausgegeben von. Lief. 13 (II., 2B.; Bg. 1–4). 2 Abteilung, 2 Teil: Pteridophyten und Anthophyten. Band IX. 2: Die Vegetationsorgane der Anthophyten. Organe besonderer physiologischer Dignität. A: Die Absorptionsorgane der parasitischen Samenpflanzen. Von Prof. Dr. Adolf Sperlich. Pp. iv + 52. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1925.) 4.50 gold marks.
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Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie . Nature 118, 9 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118009b0
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