Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the first edition
- Prologue to the second edition
- Acknowledgments for the first edition
- Acknowledgments for the second edition
- I General introduction
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions
- Division 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
- Division 1: North America (north of Mexico)
- Division 2: Middle America
- Division 3: South America
- Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
- Division 5: Africa
- Division 6: Europe
- Division 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
- Division 8: Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia
- Division 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited
- Addenda in proof
- Geographical index
- Author index
Division 2: Middle America
from II - Systematic bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the first edition
- Prologue to the second edition
- Acknowledgments for the first edition
- Acknowledgments for the second edition
- I General introduction
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions
- Division 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
- Division 1: North America (north of Mexico)
- Division 2: Middle America
- Division 3: South America
- Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
- Division 5: Africa
- Division 6: Europe
- Division 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
- Division 8: Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia
- Division 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited
- Addenda in proof
- Geographical index
- Author index
Summary
No country of equal area presents a richer or more varied vegetation than Mexico.
J.D. Hooker, ‘Commentary’; in Godman and Salvin, Biologia centrali-americana, Botany, vol. 1: LXII (1888).What I would venture to suggest is a work in 8vo, without plates, scientific yet intelligible to any man of ordinary education; and, the country that I particularly have in view is the British West Indian Islands, so rich in useful vegetable products. I have reason to know that a very able botanist, Dr Griesbach [sic], is only deterred from publishing this Flora, by the fact that such works are not remunerative to the author … A sum of £300 would be required.
W. J. Hooker to the Colonial Office, 14 May 1857; quoted from Thistleton–Dyer, Botanical survey of the Empire, in Bull. Misc. Inform. (Kew) 1905: 12 (1906).In tropical America … the flora has been studied from isolated centers with little regard for the species accepted at other centers, but with the assumption that each area is floristically distinct. Correlation through monographic work, covering a genus throughout its range, will reduce the species that have been multiplied unnecessarily.
P. C. Standley in Flora of the Panama Canal Zone (1928); quoted from Prance in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 64 (1978).Adverso ha sido el destino de las obras que sobre la flora de nuestro paí se han escrito.
E. Beltrá, ‘Prologo’; in C. Conzatti, Flora taxonómica mexicana, vol. 1: viii (1946).- Type
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- Information
- Guide to Standard Floras of the WorldAn Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas, pp. 256 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001