This book traces the history of cultivated plats, containing inquiries concerning the native country, distribution, culture and uses of the principal cultivated plants. Focusing on the geography of plants, it offers elaborated discussion on the conditions of climate which determine the presence and distribution of plants; the conditions by which the soil influences the station and distribution of plants; and the distribution of plants over the surface of the earth, with particular reference to the physiognomy of nature.
F.J.F. Meyen (1804-1840) was a professor at Berlin and worked on the content of plant cells. In 1830, his textbook on phytotomy was published. He distinguished and described individual types of tissues, like mesenchyma, parenchyma, prosenchyma and pleurenchyma.
