Abstract
THE two last volumes to be added to Drs. Engler and Drude's series of plant geographical monographs deal with the vegetation of the Peruvian Andes on the one hand, and that of North and Central America and the West Indies on the other. The field in both cases is vast, and Prof. Harshberger's volume is of considerable bulk. Dr. Weberbauer's volume can scarcely be considered a worthy successor to the able monograph prepared by Dr. Reiche on plant distribution in Chile (vol. viii. of this series, published in 1907), which is all the more a matter of regret since the Peruvian Andine flora is one of particular interest. A good account of the vegetation of this region, in its relation to that of Chile and Argentina in the south and Ecuador to the north, still requires to be written.
Die Vegetation der Erde.
Sammlung pflanzengeographischer Monographien. Prof. A. Engler Prof. O. Drude Prof. A. Weberbauer Prof. J. W. Harshberger. Pp. lxiii + 790. Price 40 marks. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1911.)
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Die Vegetation der Erde . Nature 90, 405–406 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090405a0
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