The jade- to turquoise-colored flowers of the jade vine, or Strongylodon macrobotrys, can be found in Hawaii. The nonnative S. macrobotrys is occasionally cultivated in gardens across the islands. One ...

Glandular trichomes on the leaf tip of the sundew plant (Drosera filiformis) resemble dewdrops. In some lineages of plants, hairs do not provide protection. They function as a tool to gather essential ...

THE scope of this book is somewhat ambitious, for although it is limited to the requirements of intermediate examinations, it takes up in considerable detail the four main branches of botany.

(1)THE course of work in elementary botany set forth in this book is such as to fulfil admirably the author's main object: the establishment of the fundamental principles of plant physiology; while ...