100 Families of Flowering Plants

ISBN: 52129891.First Edition Book condition – Fair. . This book is designed to enable students of botany to gain some knowledge of the relationships between families of plants. The text of each of the 100 plant families described is in two parts. The first part gives the general characteristics of the family, mentions some of the principal economic and ornamental plants and includes a section on classification. The second part describes in detail a typical representative of the family, as far as possible a plant which is common in the wild or in cultivation and therefore easily obtainable.Owner siganture in fep & Bradford Botany Group sticker on front cover but otherwise a very clean, nice copy of a first edition.