Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 ...have taken a higher path. As to critical re-investigation, it is not to be thought of by most. The most important organ in Phanerogamous plants is the how many botanists are there who know the struoturc of an anther perfectly from their own experience? Hence we find in the books of botanists of the greatest reputation, things stated about the anthers which truly are not a whit better than if J. Miiller were to describe the human lungs as simple sacs. I have striven, in my methodological introduction, to develope such a principle for Botany, out of the contemplation of its object; and I here once more express my firm conviction, that without rigid carrying through of the investigation of development, in the total as in the singular, Botany is, and will remain, an unscientific game of purely arbitrary arrangement and combination of uncomprehended forms. In spite of our by far less difficult problem, Zoology has far outstripped us, and has shown us the road which properly she should have learned from us. Vie must follow behind, if every botanist does not in time become red with shame, who takes in hand a work of Miiller, Schwann, Reichert, Baer, Iiathke, Siebold, Wagner, and all the hundred others, by the side of whom we can scarce place half a dozen. Following Robert Brown, I first sought to apply the investigation of development to the discovery of the structure of flowers. In this manner I found the explanation of the flower of the Grasses, the Carices, the composition of the involucre in Euphorbia, &c. With my deceased friend Vogel, I published the first perfect history of development of the flower of a Leguminom. After a considerable time some botanists followed me, and have in part confirmed the correctness of my views. The first was Geleznof...
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