8vo. xxiii.428 pgs. Very Good condition cloth hardcover. Light to moderate general rubbing to cloth causing a somewhat faded appearance to an otherwise clean and sturdy copy. A volume in the McGraw-Hill Publications in the Botanical Sciences Series. Black and white line drawings and illustrations include a fold-out chart detailing the outline of classification followed in this book, opposite a key to pertinent symbols and abbreviations appearing in the chart. In addition to chapters on morphology and taxonomy of specfic plant families, there appears sections on the history of botany, profiles and portraits of early botanists and their important contributions, a section on collection and preparation of plant specimens, reference books, monographs and manuals, a glossary and an index. #1012.

Flowers  And  Flowering  Plants.  An  Introduction  To  The  Nature  And  Work  Of  Flowers  And  The  Classification  Of  Flowering  Plants,  Raymond  Pool,  Botany,  Plant  Science,  Plant  Taxonomy,  Plant  Identification,  Plant  Morphology,  Non-Fiction,  Reference,  Angiosperms,  Science,  Plant  Science,  Botanical  Illustration