E. J. H. Corner's perennial favorite The Life of Plants, copiously stocked with now-classic botanical illustrations, is one of the most fascinating and original introductions to the world of plants ever produced—from the botanist to the amateur, no reader will finish this book without gaining a much richer understanding of plants, their history, and their relationship with the environments around them.
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E. J. H. Corner's perennial favorite, copiously stocked with now-classic botanical illustrations, is one of the most fascinating and original introductions to the world of plants ever produced. From the botanist to the amateur, no reader will finish this book without gaining a much richer understanding of plants, their history, and their relationship with the environments around them.
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E. J. H. Corner was a professor of tropical botany at the University of Cambridge.
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A PLANT is a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface what it needs for growth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
willow habit, female sporangium, false parenchyma, filamentous seaweeds, plant flagellates, arillate fruit, female prothallus, spore output, parenchymatous plants, durian theory, female spore, green land plants, rosette trees, asexual zoospores, main filament, haploid zoospores, plant protoplasm, flowering forest, reproductive bud, male spores, herbaceous forms, red seaweeds, many flagella, plant plankton, stout twigs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, New Guinea, South-East Asia, After Kylin, Coal Measures, After Newton, Old World New!
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A PLANT is a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface what it needs for growth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
willow habit, female sporangium, false parenchyma, filamentous seaweeds, plant flagellates, arillate fruit, female prothallus, spore output, parenchymatous plants, durian theory, female spore, green land plants, rosette trees, asexual zoospores, main filament, haploid zoospores, plant protoplasm, flowering forest, reproductive bud, male spores, herbaceous forms, red seaweeds, many flagella, plant plankton, stout twigs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, New Guinea, South-East Asia, After Kylin, Coal Measures, After Newton, Old World New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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