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 6: Europe
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
Flora URSS is thus completed. We remember all our colleagues, many of them long dead, who contributed to its achievement.
We have done what we could. We welcome the young botanists and wish them success.
Fecimus quod potuimus. Vivant sequentes. E. G. Bobrov, Nature205: 1049 (1965).It is the hope of the editors [of Flora Europaea] that by wrestling with these problems they have, at least to some extent, made it unnecessary for the next generation to do so again, and have thus enabled them to devote more time to plants.
D. A. Webb, Taxon27: 14 (1978).The geographical limits of Europe adopted here are essentially the same as those adopted for Flora Europaea, with the omission of the Azores, the Arctic islands and the tundra zone (respectively included in Regions 02, 05 and 06). The Caucasus, sometimes considered to be part of Europe, is treated as Region 74 within Division 7 (northern, central and southwestern Asia). Outside of the eight groups of polities here delimited, separate units have been allocated for a number of major physiographic entities such as the Mediterranean, the Alps and Carpathians, and the Ural.
Organized floristic study and the writing of floras as they are today internationally known began in Renaissance Europe, but had antecedents in ancient Greece and in China and Japan. Significant advances in methodology came through the work of such scholars as Charles de l'Écluse (Clusius), Johann and Caspar Bauhin, John Ray, Albrecht von Haller, Carl Linnaeus, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle, William J. and Joseph D. Hooker, Karl Philip von Martius, George Bentham, Nathaniel L. Britton and Gustav Hegi and, in the modern era, the Flora SSSR work-group, the Flora Europaea Organisation, the Flora of Australia project, and the original, abortive Flora North America Program.
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- 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. 517 - 649Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001