ARBER Agnes THE GRAMINEAE: A STUDY OF CEREAL, BAMBOO, AND GRASS , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934.Illustrated by Colour Frontis Plate and Text Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No DJ. Lge 8vo Green cloth covered boards with bright silver titling on spine, slight bump to corners. Neat name on ffep. . With coloured frontispiece after Albrecht Durer and 212 text figures. pp. xvii, 480. Clean and tight. Chapters . I. Cereals of the Old World. II. Cereals of the East and of the New World. General Conclusions . III. Pasture, Sugar, and Scent . IV. Bamboo: Vegetative Phase. V. Bamboo: Tree Habit. VI. Bamboo: Reproductive Phase. VII. Bamboo: Spikelet and Fruit. VIII. The Reproductive Shoot in Grasses: Structure and Anthesis. IX. The Reproductive Shoot in Grasses: Compression and Sterilisation. X. Individuality and Life-phases in Bamboo and Grass. XI. The Grass Embryo and Seedling. XI I. The Vegetative Phase in Grasses: Root and Shoot . XI I I. The Vegetative Phase in Grasses: the Leaf . XIV. The Gramineae and the Study of Morphological Categories. XV. The Distribution and Dispersal of Grasses . XVI. Maize and Townsend's Cord-grass: two Putative Hybrids. XVII. Pattern and Rhythm in the Gramineae Taxonomic Table. Bibliography. Index . (Book ref. 130214) £29.95 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Charles Bossom , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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