Morphology of angiosperms : (Morphology of spermatophytes. Part II) / by John Merle Coulter ... and Charles James [!] Chamberlain.

  • John Merle Coulter
Date:
1903
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Credit: Morphology of angiosperms : (Morphology of spermatophytes. Part II) / by John Merle Coulter ... and Charles James [!] Chamberlain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTEE II THE FLOWER The morphology of the flower of Angiosperms has an enor- mous literature, much of which is now more curious than valu- able. It is not the purpose of this book to present the numerous details and extensive terminology that were so conspicixous a feature of the older morphology, dominated as it was by the doctrine of metamorphosis. For these the student is referred to Eiehler’s Bliithendiagramme (1875—’78), in which may be found the most complete account of the flower of Angiosperms from this standpoint. The English student will also And an admirable short account of the same subject from the same standpoint in Gray’s Structural Botany (1879). A presenta- tion that combines much of the older method of treatment with newer points of view appears in Goebel’s Outlines of Classi- fication and Special Morphology of Plants (English transla- tion, 1887). Among the later important literatxire the follow- ing may he consulted: Goebel’s Vergleichende Entwicklungs- geschichte der Pflanzenorgane in Schenck’s Hahdbuch der Botanik (3 0 99-432. -figs. 126. 1884); Celakovsky’s Ueber den phylogenetischen Entwicklungsgang der Bliite und liber den Ursprung der Blumenkrone, I and II (Sitzber. Kbnigl. Bohm. Gesell. Wiss. 1896 and 1900) ; Familler’s Biogenetische Untersuchungen iiber verkiimmerte oder umgebildete Sexualor- gane (Flora 82: 133-168. figs. 10. 1896) ; Engler and Prantl’s Die Matiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien; Goebel’s Organographie der Pflanzen (vol. ii, 1901).* These works and others like them must be consulted for the details of the structure of angio- * It should be understood that in this mention of the literature of the flower only certain important works are cited, and that only in the subse- quent chapters is there any attempt at presenting fairly complete lists of the important literature.