Excerpt from Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, 1919, Vol. 20 The volume published, dedicated to one of the finest of Colom bia's scholars and statesmen. Michael A. Caro. After a brief geological introduction, divides into three portions. The first part. The therapeutic flora, runs over the vegetation of the country, for the dicotyledons family by family, listing the best known and especially the medicinal species, and making for each some entry of locality and of medicinal use. Often the latter entries are ...
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Excerpt from Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, 1919, Vol. 20 The volume published, dedicated to one of the finest of Colom bia's scholars and statesmen. Michael A. Caro. After a brief geological introduction, divides into three portions. The first part. The therapeutic flora, runs over the vegetation of the country, for the dicotyledons family by family, listing the best known and especially the medicinal species, and making for each some entry of locality and of medicinal use. Often the latter entries are quite full, and while I am little qualified to judge, I should suppose that this is a mine of valuable observations. The monocotyledons and higher cryptogams are not so fully entered, although he has much to say of these. An industrial flora follows on pages 132 to 151, similar in treatment but much briefer. To me in my travels in remote sections of the country the most valuable portion of the book is the third, the index of the common names of the plants used in Colombia. This embraces pages 153 to 275, and is much more than an index. Each entry contains the scientific name of the species, and very generally notes of occurrence and uses. In a country where physicians and medicines are rare and few. The people pay that close attention to the flora which must have characterized the English in the times when our wealth of English names came into being, and so it is but natural to find almost every Colombiano well versed in plant names. To a novice, Cort�s' index was indeed a key to the more important part of the flora. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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