Robert Brown

The Miscellaneous Botanical Works of Robert Brown - Volume 1

Herausgeber: Bennett, John Joseph

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This two-volume collection of Robert Brown's 'miscellaneous botanical works', edited by John J. Bennett, was published in 1866-7.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 630
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 876g
• ISBN-13: 9781108076814
• ISBN-10: 1108076815
• Artikelnr.: 42365035

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Geographico-Botanical Memoirs: 1. The botany of Terra Australis
2. Plants collected in Abyssinia
3. The herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith in the Congo
4. Plants collected in Captain Ross's voyage
5. Plants found in Spitzbergen
6. Plants collected in Melville Island
7. Plants collected in central Africa
8. Botany of the Swan River
9. Botanical appendix to Captain Sturt's expedition
Part II. Structural and Physiological Memoirs: 1. The parts of fructification in mosses
2. Remarkable deviations from the usual structure of seeds and fruits
3. A new genus of plants, named Rafflesia
4. Rafflesia arnoldi and Hydnora africana
5. Kingia
6. Particles contained in the pollen of plants
7. Fecundation in Orchaidaceae and Asclepiadeae (1)
8. Fecundation in Orchidaceae and Asclepiadeae (2)
9. The compound ovarium of plants
10. The embryos in the seeds of conifera
11. The gulf-weed
12. Triplosporite, an undescribed fossil fruit
Index.