Author : William Jackson Hooker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366185580
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (855 download)
Book Synopsis Hooker's Icones Plantarum, Or Figures, with Descriptive Characters and Remarks, of New and Rare Plants, Selected from the Kew Herbarium, Vol. 7 by : William Jackson Hooker
Download or read book Hooker's Icones Plantarum, Or Figures, with Descriptive Characters and Remarks, of New and Rare Plants, Selected from the Kew Herbarium, Vol. 7 written by William Jackson Hooker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hooker's Icones Plantarum, or Figures, With Descriptive Characters and Remarks, of New and Rare Plants, Selected From the Kew Herbarium, Vol. 7: Fourth Series; Part I. 2601-2625, June 1899; Part II. 2626-2650, May 1900; Part III. 2651-2675, August 1900; Part IV. 2676-2700, February 1901 Thunberg says in his Travels l.o These (the lowermost Raggeveld) as well as the others (roggevelds) have been so named from a kind of rye which grows wild here in abundance near the bushes. Curiously enough it has not been collected again since Thunberg's times. Burchell (travels, i. P. 256) says I saw none of the wild rye which has been said to be so abundant as to give the name to this district, but this might be owing to the season of the year. He visited this district in August, when grasses like this would naturally have disappeared. It might be suggested that S. Qfricanum is a variety of S. Cereals, which had been introduced by the farmers and then run wild but rye varies very little altogether, and, so far as I am aware, never in a way which would explain the differences that characterise the new species described above. 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.
