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HUTCHINSON'S POPULAR BOTANY: THE LIVING PLANT FROM SEED TO FRUIT (2 VOLUMES)

by A.E. Knight; Edward Step

Published by Hutchinson & Co..

Very good condition. The Fascinating Story of the World's Plants Told in a Popular Manner. Three-quarter red leather bindings. Red cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. Red speckled text block. Volume I with 351 b/w photos and illustrations plus 9 coloured plates. Volume II with 370 b/w illustrations and photos plus 9 coloured plates.

Light rubbing to leather. A few marks to boards. Browning to edges of pastedowns. Small nibble to vertical edge of front endpaper. Hinges pulled with creasing to volume I. A few minor grubby margin marks. Insect damage to rear joint of both volumes. All colour plates present.

Stock no. 1830607

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Contents

  • VOL. I
  • Introduction
  • I. The Protoplast
  • II. The |Protoplast as House-Builder and House-Furnisher
  • III. Cell Communities: A Chapter on Tissues
  • IV. The Ascending Sap
  • V. The Descending Sap
  • VI. Seed and Root
  • VII. Nature's Woodcraft: A Chapter on Stems
  • VIII. Leaf-Beginnings and Leaf-Forms
  • IX. The Leaf is Relation to its Environment
  • VOL. II
  • X. The Leaf in Relation to its Environment (continued)
  • XI. Floral Forms and Their Relations to Insects
  • XII. The Welcome of the Flowers
  • XIII. Some Plant Marriages and the Guests that Assist at the Function
  • XIV. The Promise of the Plant That is to Be
  • XV. Hidden Marriages
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Index

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