The geography of plants.

Date:
[1850?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The geography of plants. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The object or the following pages is to give a brief and popular view of that branch of botany and physical geography, which is com- monly termed the Geography of Plants ; a study which is yet in its infancy, but respect- ing which enough is known, both as to facts and laws, to render it one of no common interest. The more enumeration of botanical names has been carefully avoided, especially in describing the floral features of foreign countries, where the mention of such plants as are generally unknown here Avould have been unintelligible without figures, or descrip- tions of a length precluded by the limits of the work. Such plants only, therefore, have been
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