Botanical Classifications. A comparison of eight systems of Angiosperm classification. 1974. illustr. XIV,373 p. 4to. Cloth.

All botanists and other persons studying plants must deal at leastsuperficially with several systems of plant classification. Thus in Dewey classification libraries books are shelved according to the Bentham and Hooker system, with family names of this library systemfollowing the Hutchinson line. Most floristic manuals and most herbariaare arranged by Engler and Prantl's system.Textbooks may follow theBessey system while for phylogenetic considerations course lectures mayfollow the Cronquist system. A reference in all taxonomic courses is theSyllabus der Pflanzenfamilien, which follows the Melchior system. Thebook by Swift gives orientation in this situation by comparing eightsystems (Endlicher,Bentham,Hooker,Eichler,Engler,Bessey,Hutchinson,Melchior,Cronquist) on an order by order basis.