Provides a basic introduction to twenty five commonly occurring families offlowering plants chosen for their economic ornamental and ecologicalimportance. It is... » 

Provides a basic introduction to twenty five commonly occurring families offlowering plants chosen for their economic ornamental and ecologicalimportance. It is designed to enable students of botany and related disciplinesto gain some knowledge of the general characteristics of each family and alsothe relationships between them. An introductory section provides basicbotanical information which is often assumed to be known and which is essentialfor a proper consideration of the families themselves. These are described inthe second section of the book. For each family information on itsdistribution classification general features and economic importance precedesa detailed description of a typical representative species. For the larger ormore varied families several representative species are included. The text isillustrated throughout with clear and accurate line diagrams and accompanied byan exhaustive glossary. «