ISBN: 9781459033757

Unknown Author, John Alexander Harvie-Brown,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books Annals-of-Scottish-Natural-History~~Unknown-Author General Books LLC P… Mehr…

Unknown Author, John Alexander Harvie-Brown,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books Annals-of-Scottish-Natural-History~~Unknown-Author General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE FLORA OF SHETLAND. By William H. Beebv, F.L.S. In the following lines I have endeavoured to give a Revision of the Hicracia known to occur in the Shetland Islands. I have undertaken the task with some diffidence; for although the plants have been observed with some care in their native habitats, and many of the forms have been cultivated through a series of years, yet, on the other hand, my knowledge of even the British forms is somewhat partial, and had it not been for the ready assistance rendered by the Rev. W. R. Linton I should not have ventured to describe several of the forms mentioned below. Apart from the distinctions which separate the sub-genera, our Hieracia may be said to possess characteristics rather than characters; and it is seldom that a character can be found which is not at the same time variable within the species, and also present in a more or less modified form in other species, allied or distant. Hence the species are not separated by few or single well-marked characters, but their determination often depends on the assessing of the aggregate value of a number of small differences. Their determination thus becomes to some extent a matter of opinion, and it is quite natural that different names should sometimes be given to the same plant by different authorities. My collection, amassed during the past twenty years, is now a large one, and many of the plants have been criticised by various authorities, both British and Scandinavian. With the object of getting a more consistent view of the Shetland forms as a whole, I asked Mr. Linton some time ago whether he would look through them. Not only did Mr. Linton accede to my request, but he very kindly examined carefully such plants as required it, and also favoured me with numerous notes without w...<

ISBN: 9781459033757

Unknown Author, John Alexander Harvie-Brown, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, , Annals-of-Scottish-Natural-History~~Unknown-Author, 999999999, Annals o… Mehr…

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