1895 The Natural History of Plants Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and Distribution

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original green cloth binding. 

These volumes are illustrated with 16 colour plates, including a frontispiece to volume I, with two thousand original woodcut illustrations throughout the text. Collated, complete. 

This is a sweeping botanical work originally in German, Pflanzenleben, translated into English by F. W. Oliver with assistance from Marian Busk and Mary F. Ewart. It covers plant morphology, growth, reproduction, with detailed discussion of pollen, fertilization, seed formation, and distribution, both geographically and ecologically.

Anton Joseph Kerner Ritter von Marilaun (1831–1898) was an Austrian botanist and professor, with major contributions in phytogeography. This natural history was one of his most important works, and was the result of his studies of over a thousand species of plants.