Anatomy Of The Dicotyledons Vol I

Osmania University, Digital Library Of India, Metcalfec.R., Chalkl.

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00 ?r OU 162034>mQSMANIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY S&" AccessionNaCall No. fiftft/ ft C.IJ, Title Hi * i^ ...... 4 orThisbookshould be r&urncti'on before the datfe lastmarkeKEY TO TISSUES ANDSTEMS PETIOLES XYU.ESCLERENCHYMA CHLORENCHYMA COLLENCHYMA CORK PHLOEM WOOD VESSELS PARENCHYMARAYS FIBRESSEPTATE PHL.OEM TRACHEIDS SCLERENCHYMA havethe whichbeen used for the tissues in drawingsThe above of havetypes shading an author'sto wherefor this book. do not drawingsbeen They applyspecially prepared in thefibres not shaded where forming patches ground-name is exceptgiven. Septate xxtissue of the wood. Transverse sections of Wood 50, Rays 90.ANATOMY OF THE DICOTYLEDONSANATOMY OF THE DICOTYLEDONS AND WOODLEAVES, STEM, IN RELATION TO TAXONOMY WITH NOTES ON ECONOMIC USES BY R. METCALFEC. PH.D.MJV., ROYAL BOTANIC KEWJODRELL LABORATORY, GARDENS, AND L. CHALK D.PHIL.M.A., IMPERIAL FORESTRY INSTITUTE, OXFORD WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF M. M. CHATTAWAY C. L. HARE F. R. RICHARDSON E. M. SLATTER IVOLUME OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESSAmen London E.C.Press, House,Oxford University 4 GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MFLBOURNF WELLINGTON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI CAPE TOWN IBADAN NAIROBI ACCRA SINGAPORE FIRST EDITION I95O REPRINTED LITHOGRAPHICALLY IN GREAT BRITAIN AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD BY CHARLES PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITYBATEY, FROM CORRECTED SHEETS OF FIRST EDITION 1957FOREWORD more than since L. A. then in of theIT is years Boodle, Jodrellforty charge and F. E. then also at collaborated in theLaboratory, Fritsch, working Kew, ofSolereder'swork on the ofthetranslation systematic anatomy Dicotyledons. Boodle to this task a of the inbrought profound knowledge subject, acquired of his official which to the anthe course translation evenduties, gave greater value than that of the German the theoriginal. During past forty years range available for has been aof material and massstudy greatly augmented, large has been accumulated at whichof data has enabled to beKew, generalizations on a surer foundation and the means ofbased of theprovided filling many in Solereder's work. In tisfe Dr. whothis succeeded BoodleMetcalfe,gaps in the of the has carried forward the workJodrellcharge Laboratory, ably which Boodle to such that the mustbegan, good purpose present publication as a new work and thebe and in a farold,regarded incorporating correcting real sense as a ofmore the anatomical features ofcomprehensive survey considered as taxonomic characteristics.dicotyledonous plants In no of has more extensive been madeaspect plant anatomy progress the than in the of the in nowood,during past half-century study secondary small because of the of the ofdegree growing appreciation importance foranatomical characters the identification of commercial timbers. It is therefore a to record the debt to Dr. L. Chalk who has collaboratedpleasure in the of this work and to whom the of theproduction original descriptions woods are due.secondary entirely The whole constitutes a monument to the assiduous labours of the authors and will remain the standard reference work on the and indis-long subject to Botanical ofpensable every Library importance.any The collections at now some haveKew,living numbering 45,000 species, an invaluable source of but in addition haveprovided material, specimens been from all of the and there are fewbutsought parts world, larger groups of all the vast of thathavenotbeenexaminedassemblage dicotyledonous plants in to one or more The collection of woodrespect representatives. large and slides at thespecimens microscope Forestry Institute, Oxford,Imperial formed the basis of the work on wood and this wasanatomy, supplemented data collected Dr. M. M. for all the in theby specially by Chattaway genera Yale Collection not available Oxford.in Thus the of the ofpicture range structure evolved the various taxonomic is with a com-by groups presented thatwas never before and with a of treatmentpleteness possible simplification that a of detail can alone achieve.mastery E. SALISBURYJ. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW