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THE publication of this supplement only four years after the completion of the main work shows once more how, far from exhausting the interest in the exploration of a country, a good flora rather acts as a most effective stimulus in widening and deepening it. As the. main work was noticed in detail in this Journal (vol. lxxiv., p. 314), it may suffice here to state that the bulk of the supplement consists in additions of new localities, mostly from recent collections; but there is also a considerable access of species not recorded in the original “Conspectus,” and of entirely new forms. The species referred to in one way or another amount to about 1600, certainly enough to justify the issue of a supplement. The disposition of one genus, Taraxacum, has been entirely recast after Handel-Mazzetti's new monograph. As it now stands, it comprises nine species against two in Boissier's “Floræ Orientalis,” and five in the “Conspectus.”
Supplementum Conspectus Florae Graecae.
Auctore E. de Halácsy. Pp. iv + 132. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1908.) Price 6 marks.
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STAPF, O. Supplementum Conspectus Florae Graecae . Nature 78, 341 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078341a0
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