Excerpt from Contributions to Botany, Iconographic and Descriptive, Vol. 3: Containing a Complete Monograph of the Menispermace??? His volume, the result of the labour of many years, forms a com onograph of the extensive order of the Menispemacecc, the struct hich was almost unknown when the subject first attracted my atte: 's investigation was commenced in 1837, during my residen ll, and was resumed at intervals after my return home, as o ities presented themselves for examining collections from other the world. In 1851 ...
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Excerpt from Contributions to Botany, Iconographic and Descriptive, Vol. 3: Containing a Complete Monograph of the Menispermace??? His volume, the result of the labour of many years, forms a com onograph of the extensive order of the Menispemacecc, the struct hich was almost unknown when the subject first attracted my atte: 's investigation was commenced in 1837, during my residen ll, and was resumed at intervals after my return home, as o ities presented themselves for examining collections from other the world. In 1851 (ann. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. Vol. Vii. P. 33) I itted a general review of the progress made up to that time, and outline of the several tribes and genera into which I propose vide the family, giving, in a short summary, the chief peculiariti he several points of structure on which these divisions were foun ubsequently, having accumulated a sufficient mass of evidence, I enced in 1864, in the 'annals of Natural History, ' the publicati ie contents of this volume, where, at intermittent periods, the resu y investigations were chronicled. The difficulties attendant on acquisition. Of this amount of information were very great; for, as i impossible to borrow collections, it became equally impracticable to pare, side by side, specimens at a distance from one another, an only alternative was to make a tracing of every specimen that beneath my observation, noting upon each its peculiar features, - a te process, but the only one that could enable me to ascertain the c upon which a valid species was determinable. By this method accumulated upwards of 700 tracings of Menisyiermaceows plants. 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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