Edmondston's Flora of Shetland: Comprehending a List of the Prevalent Wild-Flowers, Horse-Tails, Club Mosses and Ferns of the Shetland Isles, Second Edition Natural Classification (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Edmondston's Flora of Shetland: Comprehending a List of the Prevalent Wild-Flowers, Horse-Tails, Club Mosses and Ferns of the Shetland Isles, Second Edition Natural Classification

AS the first edition of this F lora stood, it was almost valueless from many points of view. The general arrangement was obsolete, the nomenclature was in many cases different from modern terms owing to change of opinion concerning species and \variety. There were several inaccuracies of detail, natural to the age of the young author, and attributable also to the state of botanical knowledge in his day.

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