Flowering Plants
Basswoods to Spurges
Publication Year: 1982
This is the fourth volume in The Illustrated Flora of Illinois devoted to dicotyledons, or dicot plants. Dicots are the greatest group of flowering plants, exceeding the monocotyledons, or monocots. Dicots produce a pair of seed leaves during germination while monocots produce only a single seed leaf.
This volume contains four orders and ten families of dicots. The orders included in this volume are Malvales, Urticales, Rhamnales, and Euphorbiales. Within the Malvales are the families Tiliaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Malvaceae. The families Ulmaceae, Moraceae, and Urticaceae comprise the Urticales. Rhamnaceae and Elaeagnaceae make up the Rhamnales. The Euphorbiales include only the Thymelaeceae and the Euphorbiaceae.
Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
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pp. ix-
Foreword
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pp. xiii-
In 1967, the first volume of The Illustrated Flora of Illinois was published. That volume, which covered the ferns of Illinois, has been followed by eight volumes on flowering plants. This is the ninth book devoted to flowering plants, and the fourth one treating dicotyledonous plants. Several additional...
County Map of Illinois
Introduction
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pp. 1-4
This volume is the fourth devoted to dicotyledons, or dicot plants. Dicots are the greatest group of flowering plants, exceeding the monocotyledons, or monocots. Dicots are plants which produce a pair of seed leaves during germination, while monocots produce merely a single seed leaf...
Descriptions and Illustrations
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pp. 5-216
Of the six families which comprise the order Malvales, in accordance with the Thorne (1968) system of classification, three are represented in Illinois. The Tiliaceae and Malvaceae both have species native to the Illinois flora, while the Malvaceae and Sterculiaceae have species introduced into the Illinois flora. Not...
Species Excluded
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pp. 217-218
Summary of the Taxa Treated in This Volume
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pp. 219-
Glossary
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pp. 223-227
Literature Cited
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pp. 229-230
Index of Plant Names
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pp. 231-234
Back Cover
E-ISBN-13: 9780809389902
Print-ISBN-13: 9780809310258
Page Count: 256
Publication Year: 1982
