Flora Scotica Or A Description Of Scottish Plants Arranged Both According To The Artificial And Natural Methods

Author : William Jackson Hooker
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ISBN 13 : 9781330537046
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Flora Scotica written by William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Flora Scotica: Or, a Description of Scottish Plants, Arranged Both According to the Artificial and Natural Methods The general division of Scotland into Highlands and Lowlands is in itself sufficiently indicative of the nature of the country, and of its aptness to the purposes of Natural History. The Lowlands, adjoining the English frontier, present an extensive and level range of the tnost fertile corn-fields, interspersed with moist woods, and occasional tracts of barren heath. In a surface thus diversified, and also containing a correspondent variety of soil, the botanist will meet with the greater number of the plants peculiar to the southern districts of Great Britain; while the mountains and rocks of the Highlands furnish a considerable number of others, for which search has in vain been made in any other part of the United Kingdom. Such a country, though happily now forming an undivided portion of the empire, is of itself so naturally separate, and was so long regarded politically so, that there can scarcely be raised a question as to how far it deserves the distinction of having a volume dedicated expressly to the elucidation of its vegetable productions. In England, as well as upon the continent, the advantage of partial Floras has been generally recognised: they supply the natives of peculiar districts with the means of examining and ascertaining the plants of their vicinity at a comparatively small expense; they furnish an important contribution to vegetable geography; and they record a multitude of facts which would otherwise escape observation; as well as contain in many instances more laboured and more minute descriptions than can be admitted into works of more extensive range. Sibbald, as early as the year 1684, published his Scotia Illustrata, sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis Scotiae, in two small folio volumes, the second of which was devoted exclusively to plants. 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."