The Cambridge British Flora, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Cambridge British Flora, Vol. 2: Salicaceae to Chenopodiacae, TextIt is a truism to state that knowledge has no finality, but there is need to emphasise the fact that the knowledge of even a limited ¿ora like that of the British Islands is not only now in a state of ¿ux, but always must be, so long as botanists continue to investigate it. Discoveries are frequently made of plants which, though known to the botanists of other countries, have not previously been distinguished in the British Islands, and occasionally plants are found in these islands which have previously escaped observation altogether. The knowledge of the distribution of the members of the British ¿ora is being constantly augmented, whilst, at the same time, it is being rendered more precise. The knowledge too of the nomenclature of British plants is constantly being increased, and unfortunately this knowledge sometimes necessitates the adoption of an unfamiliar name. We hope that this increased nomenclatorial knowledge will eventually result in a greater degree of stabilisation, but we regret to record our belief that finality in the names of plants is no more possible than finality in any other branch of knowledge.The work will be completed in about ten volumes of which the present (volume II) is the first to appear. This will be followed by Volume III: the order of appearance of the remaining volumes will be announced in due course.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.