Contemporary Plant Systematics

A textbook for undergraduate students of botany with at least a beginning biology course in high school or college, and a reference for serious amateur gardener-botanists. Presents basic botanical facts as applied to vascular plants, relates these to systemic principles, and shows how those principles are important to contemporary botanical and environmental issues from a global perspective. Includes an extensive glossary without pronunciation. An accompanying CD-ROM, compatible with PC and Macintosh computers, contains a color atlas with over 3,000 images of the plants studied. The first edition was published by Allyn and Bacon at an unspecified date. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.