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BIBLIOGRAPHY
History:
Arber, A. 1912. Herbals. Univ. Press. Cambridge. (Written with her customary charm and thoroughness.)
Dorsey, G. A. 1931. Man's own show, civilization. Harper, N. Y. (Place of botany in the history of mankind.)
Green, E. L. 1909. Landmarks in botanical history. I. Prior to 1563. Smiths. Miss. Coll. 54. Publ. 1870.
Green, J.R., 1914. A history of botany in the United Kingdom. Dutton, N. Y.
Hawks, E. 1928. Pioneers of plant study. Macmillan, N. Y. (Good reading.)
Legge, J. 1861-1893. The Chinese classics. Trübner, London.
Meyer, E. H. F. 1854-1857. Geschichte der Botanik. Gebrüder Bornträger, Königsberg.
Nordenskiöld, K. 1928. History of botany. Knopf, N. Y. a classic.
Peattie, D. C. 1936. Green Laurels. Simon & Schuster, N. Y. (Easy and interesting to read with those intimate details which make the botanists seem human.)
Roberts, M. F. 1929. Plant hybridization before Mendel. Univ. Press. Princeton. (Genetics is not as new as some people seem to think.)
Rohde, H. S. 1922. The old English herbals. Longmans Green, N. Y.
Sachs, J. von. 1890. History of botany (1530-1860), auth. transl. by H. K. F. Garnsey, rev. G. B. Ralfe. Clarendon Press, Oxford. (Orig. Germ. ed. 1875)
Sarton, G. 1927. Introduction to the history of science. I, II. Carneg. Inst. Wash. Publ. 376.
Sprague, T. A. et al. 1928, 1931, 1939. (Discussions of herbals of Brundels, Fuchs, and Cordus) J. Linn. Soc. London. 48:79-124, 545-642, 52:1-113.
Manuals, text books, etc.:
Bailey, L. H. 1949. Manual of cultivated plants. Macmillan, N. Y. (Very useful book first source for unknown plants.)
Camp, W. H., H. W. Rickett, and C. A. "Leatherby, compilers. 1948. International Rules of botanical nomenclature. Unofficial special edition. Chron. Bot. Waltham, Mass.
Chamberlain, C. J. 1935. Gymnosperms...Univ. Press, Chicago. (Out of date but a classic)
Dallimore, W. and A. B. Jackson. 1948. A hand book of Coniferae. Arnold, London. (Taxonomic;with useful keys.)
Gray, Asa. 1880. The botanical text-book. I. Structural botany. Ivision, Blakeman, Taylor, N. Y. (out of print, but frequent in second-hand book stores, beautifully precise morphology, discussion of phytography.)
Harlow, W. H. and E. S. Harrar. 1937. Textbook of dendrology. (Ko Ko Lay says it's good for gymnosperms.)
Hutchinson, J. 1926. The families of flowering plants. I. Dicotyledons. Macmillan Ltd., London. (Unavailable, good artificial key to families.) 1934.II. Monocotyledons. ibid.
Johnson, A. H. 1931. Taxonomy of the flowering plants. Century Co. N. Y. (Contains many errors, but frequently useful.)
Pool, K. J. 1941. Flowers and flowering plants. McGraw-Hill, N. Y. (Student of Bessey; many drawings and floral formulae in this elementary text.)
Rehder,A. 1940. Manual of cultivated trees and shrubs. Macmillan, N. Y.
Rendle, A. R. 1904. The classification of flowering plants. I. Gymnosperms and Monocotyledons. Univ. Press, Ca,brodge/ 1925.II Dicotyledons. ibid. (Good discussion of families; monocot vol. out of date.)
Swingle, D. B. 1946. Textbook of systematic botany. McGraw Hill, N. Y. ("Lousy; written by a plant pathologist." from MBG and UC both.)
Wernham, H. F. 1911-1912 Floral evolution with particular reference to the sympetalous dicotyledon. New Myt. 10,12. (Detailed discussions of the major groups of Sympetalaee and of their relationships.)
Vettstein, R. von. 1934. Handbuch der systematischen Botanik. 4th. ed. Franz Deutliche, Leipzig & Wien. Tratado de Botanica sistematica. Transl. by P. Font Quer, Editorial Labor, S. A. Spain and So. Am. Also avail. from Chronica Botanica.
