The chemotaxonomy of the "Geraniales".

• Main Author: Galang, Marilyn Marie.
• Other Authors: Gibbs, R. (Supervisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1965
• Subjects: Botany; Plants > Classification.; Geraniales.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=117787

Botany is an old science, one branch of which, taxonomy, antedates recorded history. In fact, the early Chinese, Egyptian, and Assyrian cultures were based, to a degree, on cultivated plants (Porter, 1959). The early developers of systematic botany included Theophrastus (370 - 287 B.C. ), Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 A.D.), and Dioscorides (lst century, A.D.). Theophrastus, the "father of botany," classified plants according to the growth habit. Thus he had four groups: barbs, undershrubs, shrubs, and trees.