TY - JOUR AU1 - Baas, Pieter AB - IAWA Bulletin n.s., Vol. 3 (3-4),1982 Takhtajan, A. 1969. Flowering plants. Origin much can be learned from this book, which and dispersal. Transl. by C. Jeffrey. Oliver & provides an excellent collection of phase-con­ Boyd, Edinburgh. 310 pp. trast and SEM micrographs illustrating fairly Vliet, G.J.C.M. van. 1979. Wood anatomy of wide ranges of within-a-sample variation, and the Combretaceae. BIumea 25: 141-223. proving how exceedingly difficult the task of a Webber, I.E. 1936. The woods of scierophyl­ fibre analyst can be, when - for instance - he lous and desert shrubs and desert plants of has to make up his mind, whether in a softwood California. Amer. J. Bot. 23: 181-188. pulp the cross-field pits are pinoid, taxodioid, Woodhouse, R. M. & P. S. Nobel. 1982. Stipe cupressoid or piceoid. The descriptions suggest anatomy, water potentials, and xylem con­ that these types hardly ever intergrade, but I ductances in seven species of ferns. Amer. J. doubt this. Not only the fibre analyst, but also Bot. 69: 135-140. the privileged 'complete wood anatom ist' should Young, D.A. 1981. Are the angiosperms primi­ train his mind on the minute differences be­ tively vesselless? Systematic Botany 6: 313- tween partly disintegrated wood TI - Identification of Vegetable Fibres. Dorothy Catling and John Grayson, vi + 89 pp. (illus.) + 52 half-tone plates. 1982. Chapman ' Hall, London-New York. Price: UK£ 12.50 (board). JF - IAWA Journal DO - 10.1163/22941932-90000845 DA - 1982-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/identification-of-vegetable-fibres-dorothy-catling-and-john-grayson-vi-8zh7FH0E21 SP - 218 EP - 219 VL - 3 IS - 3-4 DP - DeepDyve ER -