Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai: a Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns, Native and Naturalized, from the Taurus to Ras Muhammad and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Syrian Desert

Abstract

THIS volume completes the new (second) edition of Post's well-known flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai. It has been revised and enlarged by J. E. Dinsmore of the American Colony in Jerusalem. The sequence of families for the Angiosperms: is approximately that of the Bentham and Hooker system and the second volume includes the Gamopetalse from the Composite to the Plantaginacese, the Incompletae, the Monocotyledons, and the Vascular Cryptogams. It also contains additions and corrections to both volumes, general indexes to Arabic, Hebrew and Latin names, and outline black and white maps, indicating the position of many of the localities quoted.

Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai: a Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns, Native and Naturalized, from the Taurus to Ras Muhammad and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Syrian Desert.

By Dr. George E. Post. Second edition, extensively revised and enlarged by John Edward Dinsmore. (American University of Beirut: Publications of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Natural Science Series, No. 1.) Vol. 2. Pp. xviii + 928 + 5 plates. (Beirut: American Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1933.) 42s. net.