BLUMEA
104
VOL.
XX,
No.
i,
1972
Review
B.
Part
MOELIONO, Caulinary
M.
II Plates.
i8£
pages;
25J.
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in
a
ten
and the
from
is
part
the
built
up
inwards
cup
the
families,
Primulaceae
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do
the author
author is
an
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opinion
that the
genesis
should
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the
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from
half
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to the
form, the
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and
the
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is
that accumulated
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as
by
septs,
similar known
central
body.
septs
other
ovule.
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grow
bundles
and
species
However,
the
Centrospermae.
of
is in favour of the
for
the
of
findings
Classical
a
The
Paleobotany.
Morphology.
—
of
use
Centrosperms only.
the vascular bundle system
and the
his
It is
morpho-
comparatively.
such
the
and
Eckardt, Roth, Boke, Meeuse,
as
the terminal
homology
concepts,
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this
the
of the vascular
terminal
account
for instance that of
during
a
in the
occur
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done
the ovules
wall,
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pattern
hold to be valid
standards
presented,
92
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core
of the ovary
which surrounds
solitary
takes into
typology,
the
evidence
a
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compared with
this theme
special attention,
‘Gestalt’
Theory,
of the book
microscopical slides,
the
also
detail,
receive
topics
are
research
anatomy
but
fully integrated
various
of the
which
high
result is
considered
be
cannot
Text,
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families.
ovules.
on
with
ovary
placentationof
placentae bearing the
results. Variations
Morphology,
adheres
other
and their
placentae
with the
histogenesis
phyllomes
axial
consequence the results
postgenital fusion,
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made
be
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of five
possible polyphyletic origin
a
the
in
II:
292 pages;
and in the Primulaceae.
—
of the
ofsterile
cup
sets
of several authors is discussed in
Zimmermann.
placentation,
a
scheme; they
the external
only
the
reduction
of the New
study of
not
in
time he
same
of
histogenetic
this
a
with
and
species
XIV,
5.
Morphology.
documentation
alternating
concept. As
adherent
at the
the
in
other
composed
two
adopts
stringent homology
is
by
stage
fit
not
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including the
in
and fuse
ultimate
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among
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with
in full accordance
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ISBN
83,00.
complete
features
that the ovary
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is
in four
discovered
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—
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carpellary placentation
Ltd., Assen,
the field of Plant
exploration into
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placentae
newly
central
cloth
observation and
close
very
and
an
families of
Price;
—
or
Van Gorcum
Royal
—
in the form
the
ovule,
the New
parietal
the
versus
issue.
of the
numerous
The list
painstaking study.
line-drawings
of references is
a
treasure.
To the reader it will be
immediately
thorough and patient attendance
and its intricate
theoretical
supplementing the
the
are
central
being
whole
body.
fine
As
—
book
maintains
a
should
author informed
to
substantiate
constitute
baffling. However,
morphology'.
This
the
which offers
placentae together
almost
backgrounds completely.
drawings. They
made in order
book
clear that the
no
easy
the
I do
central
—
body.
not understand
I think this term should be avoided
merits
very
reading by
high
standard
anatomical
this critical
reading
I
part
the
The
what
as
the
studies
morphological
of
author
suggestive
in flower
this field
ontogenetic
by
of his work.
amount
it is
master
have welcomed
do not yet have
all those interested
in
to
Yet I would
have shown
me,
of the author have found most
revolutionary findings
in this book. The author
appears
a
After
means
of
of the
having
picture
learning
of
few
good photographs
the
electron
worked
of how
embodied
by
plant morphology
fusions between the septs and
means
clear
a
microscope
through
the
in this
two
book
the
sets
of
seems
expression 'interpretative
guess-work, which
it is
definitely
not.
It is
for
specialists
and
morphology.
a
must
research.
W.A. van
Heel