Book Reviews

Conservation Biology:

• La Forêt en jeu: l'extractivisme en Amazonie Centrale Emperaire, Laure, 1996. - Laurent M. Meillier
  
• Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. Laurance, William F. and Bierregaard, Richard O., Jr., editors. 1997. - John B. Pascarella

Developmental and Structural:

• Microscopic Venation Patterns of Leaves and their Importance in the Distinction of (Tropical) Species. Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie XIV, part 4. Roth, Ingrid, 1996. - James E. Eckenwalder
  

Economic Botany:

• Oxford Dictionary of Plant Lore Vickery, Roy, 1997. - Cynthia M. Galloway
  

Ecological:

• World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution Holm, L., J. Doll., E. Holm, J. Pancho, and J. Herberger. 1997. - Jerry M. Baskin
  

General:

• Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan, 1997, and Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to Ross Perot Wainer, Howard, 1997. - Samuel Hammer
  

Historical:

• Retracing Major Stephen H. Long's 1820 Expedition: The Itinerary and Botany Goodman, George J., and Cheryl A. Lawson, 1995. - Laurence J. Dorr
  

Horticultural:

• The Gardener's Guide to Growing Peonies Page, Martin, 1997. - Douglas Darnowski
  

Physiological:

• Advances in Photosynthesis. Volume 5: Photosynthesis and the Environment. Baker, Neil R., Ed. 1996. - Cynthia M. Galloway
  

Systematic:

• Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. A biographical and bibliographical guide to individuals and groups who have collected herbarium material of algae, bryophytes, fungi, lichens and vascular plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands Dorr, Laurence J. 1997. - Robert Magill
• Protologues in seed catalogues from Botanic Garden Copenhagen 1843-1875. Hansen, Bertel, Kai Larsen, & Sven-Erik Sandermann Olsen. 1997. - Neil A. Harriman
• Vascular Plants of Texas: A Comprehensive Checklist including Synonymy, Bibliography, and Index Jones, Stanley D., Joseph K. Wipff, and Paul M. Montgomery. 1997. - Allan Nelson
• John Wurdack Festschrift. BioLlania, Edición Especial No. 6. Dorr, L. J. and B. Stergios, eds. 1997. - Neil A. Harriman