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      • Volume 1: Myxophyceae, Peridinieae, Bacillarieae, Chlorphyceae
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2012
      31 October 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511708640
      9781108013222
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511708640
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.71kg, 490 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    George Stephen West (1876–1919) was a prominent British botanist specialising in freshwater algae. In 1906 he became a lecturer in botany at the University of Birmingham and was later appointed the Mason Professor of Botany. This volume was first published in 1916 as the first of the Cambridge Botanical Handbooks series and provides a description of both marine and freshwater algae in the Myxophyceae, Peridinieae, Bacillarieae and Chlorophyceae classes. West describes the habitat, biological conditions, distribution, internal and external structures and life history of these algae in great detail, with a bibliography concluding each chapter. The book provided the first detailed description of the Myxophyceae (or blue-green) class of algae, and provides an insight into knowledge and classification of algae at the time of publication. A second volume containing a full taxonomic account of freshwater algae was planned, but not published owing to the author's death in 1919.

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