Old and new plant lore
Subtitle: a symposium
By: by Agnes Chase ... [et al.]
Contributors: Chase, Agnes, 1869-1963.; Hitchcock, A. S. 1865-1935.
Series: Smithsonian scientific series -- v. 11
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Series
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Botany.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: value: The world of plants / by A. S. Hitchcock; value: Systematic botany: its development and contracts / by W. R. Maxon; value: Plants of the sea / by Albert Mann; value: Grass / by A. S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase; value: Deserts and their plants / by D. T. MacDougal; value: The dependence of plants on radiant energy / by E. S. Johnson; value: Maize, the plant-breeding achievement of the American Indian /  by J. H. Kempton; value: Botanical exploitation in South America / by E. P. Killip.