Abstract
THE first thing which strikes one on opening this flora is the excellent paper, such as one seldom sees on this side of the Atlantic. Prof. Britton's name is a guarantee of the excellence of the work regarded as a flora; and though some who are accustomed to the older floras will probably find comparisons increased in difficulty by the number of splittings of genera that have been made, no one who has worked with tropical plants in the living condition will be likely to question the necessity of this splitting in a great number of cases. This is the first complete and modern flora of the Bahamas, and many people, not realising that the group is a trifle larger than Jamaica, and much larger than all the remaining British West Indian islands, may be surprised to learn that they contain 995 species of flowering plants.
The Bahama Flora.
By Prof. N. L. Britton Dr. C. F. Millspaugh. Pp. viii + 695. (New York: The Authors, New York Botanical Garden; London: Dulau and Co., Ltd., 1920.) 37s. 6d. net.
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The Bahama Flora . Nature 107, 327–328 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107327b0
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