The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form

Preface 1. The meaning and content of plant morphology 2. The plant morphology of the Aristotelian school 3. The plant morphology of Albertus Magnus and Andrea Cesalpino 4. Plant morphology from Joachim Jung to Goethe and de Candolle 5. The concept of the organisation type 6. The partial-shoot theory of the leaf 7. The urge to whole-shoot-hood in the leaf 8. The bearing of the partial-shoot theory of the leaf on other morphological problems 9. Repetitive branching and the gestalt type, with special reference to parallelism 10. The mechanism of plant morphology 11. The interpretation of plant morphology List of books and memoirs cited Index.