The Classification Of Flowering Plants Volume 2 Dicotyledons

This second volume of renowned English botanist Alfred Barton Rendle's The Classification of Flowering Plants was published in 1925.

Alfred Barton Rendle was a renowned English botanist, keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum and botany editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1911. The Classification of Flowering Plants is perhaps his best-known work. Volume one was first published in 1904, and this second volume followed in 1925. It was updated in 1938 and remained in print until the late 1970s. These works are now being reissued by Cambridge. Within this second volume of his prolific study, Rendle's focus is Dicotyledons. The various sections of the volume address these flowering plants, as well as Dialypetalae and Sympetalae. Each of these sections is sub-divided into chapters on the Grades and Orders of the plants which lie within these groups. As with its companion volume, this book is extensive, illustrated and informative. Its scope and detail will continue to impress the reader today.

Alfred Barton Rendle was a renowned English botanist, keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum and botany editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1911. The Classification of Flowering Plants is perhaps his best-known work. This volume was first published in 1904, updated in 1929, and it remained in print until the late 1970s. The second volume of The Classification of Flowering Plants was published in 1925. These works are now being reissued by Cambridge. In this first volume of his prolific study, Rendle acquaints the reader with the two great groups - Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. Detailed chapters discuss the evolution of plant classification and address in turn Spermatophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms and Monoctyledons. The book itself is highly illustrated and the writing truly informative. Its scope and detail will continue to impress the reader today.

The Present Book Is An Attempt To Give The Scholars/Students Of Botany, A Systematic Account Of The Flowering Plants. It Deals With The Two Great Groups Indicated By Robert Brown Gymnosperms And Monocotyldons & Dicotyledons. The Book Is Divided Into The Following Chapters: Vol 1: Gymnosperms And Monoctyledons Chapter 1: Historical Introduction; Chapter 2: Spermatophytes; Chapter 3: Gymnosperms; Order 1: Cordaitales, Order 2: Cycadales, Order 3: Bennettitales, Order 4: Ginkgoales, Order 5: Coniferales, Order 6: Gnetales Chapter 4: Angiosperms; Chapter 5: Monocotyledons; Order 1: Pandanales, Order 2: Helobieae, Order 3: Triuridales, Order 4: Glumiflorae, Order 5: Spadiciflorae, Order 6: Farinosae, Order 7: Liliiflorae, Order 8: Scitamineae, Order 9: Microspermae. Vol 2: Dicotyledons Grade A: Monochlamydeae, Order 1: Salicales, Order 2: Garryales, Order 3: Juglandales, Order 4: Julianiales, Order 5: Fagales, Order 6: Casuarinales, Order 7: Urticiflorae, Order 8: Proteales, Order 9: Santalales, Order 10: Aristolochiales, Order 11: Polygonales, Order 12: Piperales, Order 13: Centrospermae; Grade B: Dialypetalae, Order 1: Ranales, Order 2: Rhoeadales, Order 3: Sarraceniales, Order 4: Parietales, Order 5: Peponiferae, Order 6: Guttiferales, Order 7: Malvales, Order 8: Tricoccae, Order 9: Geraniales, Order 10: Rutales, Order 11: Sapindales, Order 12: Celastrales, Order 13: Rhmanales, Order 14: Rosales, Order 15: Myrtiflorae, Order 16: Opuntiales, Order 17: Umbelliflorae; Grade C: Sympetalae, (A) Pentacyclicae, Order 1: Ericales, Order 2: Primulales, Order 3: Plumbaginales, Order 4: Ebenales, (B) Tetracyclicae, Order 1: Oleales, Order 2: Contortae, Order 3: Convolvulales, Order 4: Tubiflorae, Order 5: Plantaginales.

This volume - the first of this series dealing with angiosperms - comprises the treatments of 73 families, representing three major blocks of the dicotyledons: magnoliids, centrosperms, and hamamelids. These blocks are generally recognized as subclasses in modern textbooks and works of reference. We consider them a convenient means for structuring the hundreds of di cotyledon families, but are far from taking them at face value for biological, let alone mono phyletic entities. Angiosperm taxa above the rank of family are little consolidated, as is easily seen when comparing various modern classifications. Genera and families, in contrast, are comparatively stable units -and they are important in practical terms. The genus is the taxon most frequently recognized as a distinct entity even by the layman, and generic names provide the key to all in formation available about plants. The family is, as a rule, homogeneous enough to conve niently summarize biological information, yet comprehensive enough to avoid excessive re dundance. The emphasis in this series is, therefore, primarily on families and genera.

V.1. Dicotyledons. v.2. Gymnosperms. & Monocotiledons.