"Excellent line drawings and photographs...an unusually good reference for students of botany. Amazingly concise and succinct, Green Plants still manages to cover a wide range of plant groups and topics."

--Science Books & Films

Cambridge University Press Web Site, November, 2001

The central theme of Green Plants is the astonishing diversity of forms found in the plant kingdom. The book is arranged according to generally accepted classification schemes, beginning with prokaryotic and eukaryotic algae and moving through mosses, liverworts, fern allies, ferns and gymnosperms to flowering plants. Copiously illustrated throughout, it provides a concise account of all algae and land plants, with information on topics from cellular structure to life cycles and reproduction. The authors include newly emerging information on features of plants known only as fossils. This new edition has been completely updated to reflect current views on the origin of the major plant groups.

Preface

1. General features of the plant kingdom
2. The subkingdom algae - part 1
3. The subkingdom algae - part 2
4. The subkingdom algae - part 3
5. The subkingdom embrophyta - bryophyta
6. The subkingdom embrophyta - Tracheophyta, part 1
7. The subkingdom embrophyta - Tracheophyta, part 2
8. The subkingdom embrophyta - Tracheophyta, part 3
9. The subkingdom embrophyta - Tracheophyta, part 4

Glossary
Suggestions for further reading
Index.