Elementary Flora of the Northwest (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Theodore C. Frye

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ISBN 10 : 1330433076 ISBN 13 : 9781330433072

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Northwest. Geographically it covers Oregon, I daho, Washington, and the coastal region of southwestern British Columbia. The usual limited spring flora omits so many plants that the user must know beforehand the name of the particular plant whose name he is seeking, in order that he may find by the index whether the book includes or omits it. This is absurd. Usually there is a species description, whose necessary brevity often makes it do equally well for a number of species not included. In this book the keys are complete so far as they go, except in a very few genera of grasses, in which the limits are expressly stated. This will enable teachers to hand out for analysis plants they do not themselves know. This is specially desirable in theN orthwest, where teachers may move to other schools only a hundred miles away and find a tremendous change in the flora. It is unreasonable in theN orthwest to expect teachers of botany to know all the local plants, even though they may have specialized in the subject in an undergraduate course. The distinguishing characteristics of a plant are mostly given in the keys. Species descriptions are little more than a repetition of these, together with a number of others too general to distinguish anything definitely. It is a waste of space to repeat so often in species descriptions, while omitting so much that is wanted in the keys in an elementary flora, since small cost, and therefore small size, is one of the primary requisites. The persistent and regrettable tendency of taxonomic botanists to elevate varieties to specific rank has resulted in the separation of the species of many genera on such minute or trifling characteristics that in the opinion of the writers it is not advisable in many cases for the beginner to go beyond the genus. Many of the common cultivated crop plants, the bad weeds, and the medicinal plants ar
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330433076
• ISBN 13: 9781330433072
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
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