Review of Die Infloreszenzen: Typologie und Stellung im Aufbau des Vegetationskorpers. Zweiter Band. 1 Teil, by Wilhelm Troll. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1969

Kaul, Robert B.

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Review of Die Infloreszenzen: Typologie und Stellung
im Aufbau des Vegetationskorpers. Zweiter Band. 1
Teil, by Wilhelm Troll. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1969
Robert B. Kaul
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, rkaul1@unl.edu
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Kaul, Robert B., "Review of Die Infloreszenzen: Typologie und Stellung im Aufbau des Vegetationskorpers. Zweiter Band. 1 Teil, by
Wilhelm Troll. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1969" (1970). Faculty Publications in the Biological Sciences. 460.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/bioscifacpub/460
JUNE 1970] NEW BIOLOGICAL BOOKS 201 
DIE INFLORESZENZEN. Typologie und Stellung im 
A ufbau des Vegetationskorpers. Zweiter Band. 1 
Teil. 
By Wilhelm Troll. Gustav Fischer, Jena. xii + 
630 p.; ill. 1969. 
Inflorescences defy classification, and they are not 
easy to describe, either. This book is part of the 
most ambitious attempt yet to do both. Part 1 
of this volume is the third of nine sections to be 
published in four volumes. Pagination is continuous 
through the two parts of this volume, with the 
index and citations at the end of the second part. 
Like Volume 1 this book is superbly illustrated 
with many drawings and photographs strategically 
located in the text. Often diagrams and photo-
graphs of the same inflorescence are on facing pages, 
greatly aiding interpretation. [See Q.R.B., 41(2): 
216, 1966, for review of Volume I.] 
The entire book is a systematic description of 
monotele inflorescences - panicles, thyrses, and 
their derivatives, whose axes terminate in flowers 
- and it has a wealth of information unavailable 
elsewhere. Only dicotyledons are included because 
monocotyledon inflorescences, according to Troll, 
lack truly terminal flowers. Readers are going to 
need Volume 1 close at hand for definitions and 
explanations of the many terms, concepts, and 
abbreviations. 
Not everyone will find the extreme typological 
approach appealing, but with so many examples of 
the basic types and their modifications the reader 
will have little difficulty following Troll's system. 
Serious students of inflorescences will find Volume 
1, with its exposition of Troll's principles of 
morphology and typology of inflorescences in gen-
eral, indispensable. Succeeding volumes, including 
this one, are devoted to examples. These are com-
plex books, not for the dilettante; I hope Volume 
4 will have a cumulative index. 
ROBERT B. KAUL 
Kaul in Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jun., 1970). 
Copyright, University of Chicago. Used by permission.


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University of Nebraska - LincolnDigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - LincolnFaculty Publications in the Biological Sciences Papers in the Biological Sciences6-1970Review of Die Infloreszenzen: Typologie und Stellungim Aufbau des Vegetationskorpers. Zweiter Band. 1Teil, by Wilhelm Troll. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1969Robert B. KaulUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln, rkaul1@unl.eduFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/bioscifacpubPart of the Biology Commons, and the Botany CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Papers in the Biological Sciences at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln.It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications in the Biological Sciences by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University ofNebraska - Lincoln.Kaul, Robert B., "Review of Die Infloreszenzen: Typologie und Stellung im Aufbau des Vegetationskorpers. Zweiter Band. 1 Teil, byWilhelm Troll. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1969" (1970). Faculty Publications in the Biological Sciences. 460.http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/bioscifacpub/460JUNE 1970] NEW BIOLOGICAL BOOKS 201 DIE INFLORESZENZEN. Typologie und Stellung im A ufbau des Vegetationskorpers. Zweiter Band. 1 Teil. By Wilhelm Troll. Gustav Fischer, Jena. xii + 630 p.; ill. 1969. Inflorescences defy classification, and they are not easy to describe, either. This book is part of the most ambitious attempt yet to do both. Part 1 of this volume is the third of nine sections to be published in four volumes. Pagination is continuous through the two parts of this volume, with the index and citations at the end of the second part. Like Volume 1 this book is superbly illustrated with many drawings and photographs strategically located in the text. Often diagrams and photo-graphs of the same inflorescence are on facing pages, greatly aiding interpretation. [See Q.R.B., 41(2): 216, 1966, for review of Volume I.] The entire book is a systematic description of monotele inflorescences - panicles, thyrses, and their derivatives, whose axes terminate in flowers - and it has a wealth of information unavailable elsewhere. Only dicotyledons are included because monocotyledon inflorescences, according to Troll, lack truly terminal flowers. Readers are going to need Volume 1 close at hand for definitions and explanations of the many terms, concepts, and abbreviations. Not everyone will find the extreme typological approach appealing, but with so many examples of the basic types and their modifications the reader will have little difficulty following Troll's system. Serious students of inflorescences will find Volume 1, with its exposition of Troll's principles of morphology and typology of inflorescences in gen-eral, indispensable. Succeeding volumes, including this one, are devoted to examples. These are com-plex books, not for the dilettante; I hope Volume 4 will have a cumulative index. ROBERT B. KAUL Kaul in Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jun., 1970). Copyright, University of Chicago. Used by permission.

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