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Detailed guide to identification for botanists and students.
Excerpt from A Synopsis of the British Flora: Arranged According to the Natural Orders; Containing Vasculares, or Flowering Plants Many genera appear now, for the first time, in an English Flora, and to some it may seem that this is the reverse of an improvement. Undoubtedly, if the British Flora is considered without reference to other countries, a less minute subdivision of some orders might suffice; but when it is viewed, not as an isolated Flora, but as a small fragment of the vegetation of the world, such an Opinion will, probably, be changed. Besides, our daily experience shows us that excessive analysis is far prefer able to excessive synthesis, especially for the purposes of students; the former leads to no other inconvenience, than that of increasing the degree of investigation which plants must receive to be understood: the latter has a constant tendency to render investigation superficial, and characters confused. Upon the niceties by which the genera of many orders, such as Gramineae and Orchideae, are distin guished, some of the most curious parts of Botany will be found to depend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This book describes and illustrates in detail the 760 species of mosses currently known to occur in the British Isles and incorporates the most up-to-date information available on classification and nomenclature, together with recent synonyms. The species descriptions provide information on frequency, ecology, geographical relationships and distribution, including information on protected species and those species at risk. For many species there are footnotes to aid identification. In addition to the species descriptions there are descriptions of families and genera and also introductory information on conservation, collection, preservation and examination of material, together with advice on using the keys. An artificial key to genera provides the only workable comprehensive key published in the English language. This second edition incorporates the very considerable advances in our knowledge of mosses made in the last quarter of the twentieth century and will provide a unique resource for all concerned with these fascinating organisms.
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Lindley's 1829 classification of British plants describes genera and species in English, using a uniform, standard vocabulary.