100 families of flowering plants /

100 families of flowering plants /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hickey, Michael
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Description:	xvi, 619 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Angiosperms -- Classification. Plants -- Classification Angiosperms. Plants. Classification.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/914642

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Other title:	One hundred families of flowering plants.
Other authors / contributors:	King, Clive John.
ISBN:	0521330491 0521337003 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes index. Bibliography: p. 610.

Table of Contents:

Foreword to the second edition
Preface
Note to the second edition
Acknowledgements
Signs and abbreviations
Systematic grouping of plants
Authorities
Introduction
Part 1. Families in Systematic Order
1. Dicotyledons
2. Monocotyledons
Comparative Tables
Table of family characters
Less common family characters
Approximate flowering times
Glossary
Leaf shapes (simple leaves)
Leaf shapes (compound leaves)
Petioles and points of attachment
Leaf margins
Cymose inflorescences
Racemose inflorescences
References
Index to families and genera