jan 1, 1682 - Anatomy of Plants

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Together with Malpighi's Anatome Plantarum, Grew's work was the major treatise on plant anatomy of the century. Anatome Plantarum is actually a compilation of three of Grew's earlier works on plants. Grew made important contributions and studies of plants with the use of the microscope. He also made presentations on his work to the Royal Society, and he was eventually made curator of its collections.
In 1682 appeared his great work on the Anatomy of Plants, which also was largely a collection of previous publications. It was divided into four books, Anatomy of Vegetables begun, Anatomy of Roots, Anatomy of Trunks and Anatomy of Leaves, Flowers, Fruits and Seeds, and was illustrated with eighty-two plates, while appended to it were seven papers mostly of a chemical character. The Anatomy is especially notable for its descriptions of plant structure. He described nearly all the key differences of morphology of stem and root, showed that the flowers of the Asteraceae are built of multiple units, and correctly hypothesized that stamens are male organs. Anatomy of Plants also contains the first known microscopic description of pollen.