Author: August H. R. Grisebach

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 826

ISBN-13: 9780331774337

Excerpt from Flora of the British West Indian Islands Thus the territory comprised may be estimated as amounting to about English square miles, or nearly twice as much as the area of Wales. Haiti alone 1s nearly twice as large as the whole of the British West Indies Cuba surpasses them almost three times, and this will account for the fact, that, considerable as were the materials at my disposition, and great the exertions of so many excellent collectors, the number of novelties in my Flora is comparatively speaking small, while Cuba affords a daily increasing number of unpublished species. Considering, at the same time, how neglected by botanists Cuba has been, if we compare it with the standard works of men like J acquin and Swartz, the publications of whom, with regard to the West Indies, were almost confined to the British possessions, it will appear pro bable, that by far the greatest part of the plants of our territory consists of old species, these indeed being the foundation of our scientific knowledge of the flora of tropical America. 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.