Abstract
THIS book is an unusual introduction to the study and appreciation of plant life. The theme running through it is the unity—more particularly in a symbiotic sense—of all living organisms. It is very clearly shown that plants with chlorophyll are basic to the existence of all living organisms, except a few “bacterial autotrophs”. Hence, “we ought not to speak of getting at the root of a matter, but of going back to the leaf of things”. The main groups and functions of plants are considered in extremely simple language and with the use of a minimum of technical terms.
Flowering Earth
By Donald Culross Peattie. Pp. vii + 200. (London: Phoenix House, Ltd., 1948.) 10s. 6d. net.
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TURRILL, W. Flowering Earth. Nature 162, 679 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162679c0
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