A Report Upon The Boreal Flora Of The Sierra Nevada Of California

Author : Frank Jason Smiley
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ISBN 13 : 9781330600092
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book A Report Upon the Boreal Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Jason Smiley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Report Upon the Boreal Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California, Vol. 9 The present paper constitutes a working flora for the high Sierra Nevada of California. It has been the intent of the author to present a list of all the plants now found within the higher portions of the Sierra with suitable keys for their determination. The reference to each species or variety includes the authority for the accepted name and reference to the place of publication together with a synonomy. There has been no effort to make the synonomy exhaustively inclusive, only those synonyms being listed which, in the writer's opinion, are apt to be met in the usually available literature and confused with the accepted name. Each specific or varietal reference in the list also includes the "type locality" where the plant was collected from which the original description was drawn: a statement as to the geographical range of the plant and one concerning its zonal position in the Sierra. The citation of all specimens examined by the writer has not been thought necessary: only those specimens are included which are believed to have some significance in showing the range of the plant within the limits of the Sierran region or to which attention is directed in the notes subjoined to many of the references. Prefixed to the Annotated List will be found sections descriptive of the geology, topography, and climatology of the range. A few words should be added concerning the inception of the study now in part completed and acknowledgment made of assistance received from numerous friends. My interest in the plants of the Sierran region goes back to the time when, for a number of years. I lived the greater part of each year near the line separating the great forest belt from the higher mountains and found opportunity from time to time to make excursions into the summit region. Subsequently while a student at Stanford University and Assistant in the Dudley Herbarium, it fell to me to work over the collections made by the late Professor W. R. Dudley preparatory to their incorporation into the Herbarium. Dr. L. R. Abrams suggested the possibility of using these collections as a basis for an extended study of the high mountain floras of the state. 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.