Flowering Plants and Their Evolution

Contents Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Plants and animals. 3. Monocotyledons and dicotyledons. 4. A review of the flowering plants I. General. 5. A review of the flowering plants II. Monocotyledons. 6. A review of the flowering plants III. Dicotyledons. 7. The Asclepiadaceae I. 8. The Asclepiadaceae II. 9. Floral aggregation and the pseudanthium. 10. The compositae. 11. Repetition and superficial resemblance. 12. Summary and conclusions. Index. From the preface The chapters apart from the first and last fall into three groups. The second and third form what may be looked upon as a background to the flowering plants the next three provide a review of that whole group written in somewhat novel terms and with appropriate reference to the evolutionary problems which it presents as a whole and the remaining five cover a small selection of the many more particular problems which make these plants of special interest in the study of evolution. It may be noticed that one of the most obvious of these namely the insect flower relation is not dealt with the reason being that it is so profound a subject and involves so many aspects of biology that it could not have been treated adequately in the space available here. 406 pp.…