Analytical Key to the Natural: Orders of Flowering-Plants (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Exotic floras usually contain artificial keys to the determination of genera, sometimes even of species, whereas for the orders or families a general summary is at the most given. Those who do not possess an extensive knowledge of systematic botany will, therefore, find it difficult to ascertain the'name of the order to which the plant under examination belongs, though this is necessarily the first step in every investigation. In some botanical manuals, it is true, shortkeys to the determination of the orders are to he found, but they are too short to be accurate, and most of them are somewhat antiquated. To supply this want I, in 1891, published a some what elaborate key, entitled Anleitung zum Bestimmen defr Familien defr Phanerogwmen, which was afterwards, in an abbreviated form, translated into Japanese by Professor Ikeno. This key, however, was rather too detailed, and, for a work especially destined for exotic plants, the use of English was evidently preferable. I, therefore, determined to rewrite it completely, in the hope that it would better fulfil its purpose in the new form, in which I now present it to the public. From the above-mentioned tables.

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