DVD-ROM entitled, Photo atlas of the vascular plants, 3rd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The significance of systematics -- How plants get their names -- How plants are identified -- Collecting, handling, and preserving specimens -- History and development of classification to the twenty-first century -- Plant classification in the twenty-first century -- Living ferns and other seedless vascular plants (pteridophytes) -- Families of the Pinophyta (gymnosperms) -- Terminology of flowering plants (angiosperms) -- Families of flowering plants (angiosperms)--"Basal" flowering plants, magnoliids, monocots, and commelinids -- Families of flowering plants (angiosperms)--Eudicots I -- Families of flowering plants (angiosperms)--Eudicots II. Rosids and eurosids -- Families of flowering plants (angiosperms)--Eudicots asterids--Euasterids I, II -- The literature of systematics -- Contemporary views on the origin of vascular plants -- Methods for studying the systematics of plants -- Preserving plant biodiversity -- The role of botanical gardens in society -- Epilogue.