The Penguin Dictionary of Bo- tany. 1984. illus. 390 p. 8vo. Cloth.

Encompasses in over 3000 entries all the major fields of pure andapplied plant science, including taxonomy and classification, anatomy and morphology, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, plant pathology,genetics, evolution, and ecology. It also covers selected items from such related fields as agricultural botany, horticulture andmicrobiology, and includes entries on certain laboratory equipment andtechniques. The trivial, rather than systematic, names of organiccompounds are used throughout. Table 2 in the Appendix lists therecommended chemical names of some of the commoner organic compounds. Noattempt has been made to include named species or genera of plants sincethe numbers involved make this beyond the scope of the dictionary. However, higher ranks of plant groups (divisions, classes and the moreimportant orders) are included, as are some of the larger families offlowering plants.