Synopsis This book contains original articles on various aspects of botany including ethnobotany, palaeobotany, plant pathology, applied mycology, biotechnology and forestry. Such a varied and up-to-date is bound to make it useful to the botanists, agriculturists, foresters and scientific management advisers and administrators. The contributors are well known in their specialised fields of research and they have made sincere efforts to make their papers as recent and comprehensive as possible.