Guide to Standard Floras of the World 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 1: North America (north of Mexico)
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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
Compactness being essential, only the leading synonymy and most important references are given, and these briefly.
A. Gray, preface to Synoptical flora, vol. 2, part 1 (1878).Watson's death will make a big gap in American botany … There is no one now to go on with the flora [Synoptical flora] and the possibility of our having a North American continental flora seems very remote, a not very creditable state of things for American botanists to contemplate.
C. S. Sargent to W. T. Thistleton-Dyer, 15 March 1892; quoted from S. B. Sutton, Charles Sprague Sargent and the Arnold Arboretum, pp. 130–131 (1970).A synoptical Flora of North America [on the lines of Flora Europaea] is both feasible and desirable at this time.
S. G. Shetler, Taxon15: 257 (1966).[FNA is] a new concept of linking modern information systems technology with time-honored means of scientific research and publication to produce a flora – species-based repository of information on plants – as an electronic data bank and information system. … [In the] 6-year first phase, an intense effort will be mounted to produce the [synoptical] flora.
Advertisement for FNA, BioScience21: 527–528 (1971).The Flora North America project was recently revitalized … to produce a conventional flora of the vascular plants of North America north of Mexico using traditional methods [italics added] … It is hoped that the flora project will be completed by 1990.
Announcement of the ‘new’ FNA, Brittonia31: 124 (1979).- Type
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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. 148 - 255Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001