The Biology of Flowering Plants (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Biology of Flowering Plants (Classic Reprint) written by Macgregor Skene and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Biology of Flowering Plants This book is an attempt to give an account of the way in which the flowering plant lives, especially in relation to its environment. This, it might be said, is the aim of ecology but ecology approaches the plant as a member Of a community, while biology, as it is understood here, is interested rather in the plant as an individual. In its methods biology has, during the last generation, become more and more experimental; it builds on a foundation of physiology. A certain amount of pure physiology must therefore be introduced. The difficulty of giving enough to make the foundation sound, and yet not so much as to obscure the picture, has been fully realised, though perhaps not overcome. The great majority of the drawings in the text are the work of Miss A. M. Davidson; about one-third are original, and these bear her initials, the remainder are copied, sometimes with modifications, from various sources which are acknowledged in the underlines. I am indebted to Professor J. E. Weaver for permission to reproduce Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 5 from his Ecological Relations of Roots. Fig. 50 is taken from Miss E. Kirkwood's Plant and Flower Forms. The photographs are original, and for help in their preparation I am indebted to Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.