Botany : a functional approach /
Walter H. Muller ; selected ill. by Isabelle Greene.
- 4th ed.
- New York : Macmillan, c1979.
- vii, 687 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
life and plants; use of plants by humans; a few basic physical and chemical principles; cell structure; diffusion and the entrance of materials into cells; the plant; stem structure; stem function; roots; leaves; energy, enzymes and digestion; photosynthesis; synthesis and respiration; correlation of processes, plant distribution and food chains; transpiration and plant distribution; mineral nutrition; soils; inheritance and variation; plant classification; kingdom monera; division eumycota; algal groups; division bryophyta; vascular plants, divisions psilophyta, lycophyta and sphenophyta; division pterophyta; division coniferophyta; division anthophyta; evolution; growth, development, flowering and plant movements; our environment; populations and their problems; pollution; the beginning