INDEX OF PLANT NAMES 



This index includes both technical and common names of the plants men- 

 tioned in the report on northern Florida, and also many synonyms, with cross- 

 references, which are inserted for the benefit of persons who may know some 

 of the species better by other names than those used in the body of this report. 

 Common names are enclosed in quotations, so that the non-botanical reader can 

 pick them out readily. 



Where the name of a genus is not followed by any specific name it means 

 either that only one species of that genus has been seen by the writer in 

 northern Florida and the specific name is omitted to save space, or that the 

 identity of the species is doubtful, or that some statement is made in the text 

 at the page indicated that applies to several or all of the species of that genus. 

 As there are many places in the text where species are referred to by 

 only the technical name or only the common name, especially in the case of 

 trees, the reader who wants to be sure to find everything that is said about 

 a given species should bear both names in mind. In this index numbers in 

 parentheses refer to pages where the plant in question is referred to indirectly 

 or under a different name ; and this device is used in most of the cases referred 

 to in the preceding sentence, but not in all of them. 



Numbers in heavy type refer to pages belonging to the regional list in 

 which the species named stands highest, or is most abundant. They do not 

 correspond exactly with the double + marks in the plant lists, because it was 

 not possible to make careful comparisons between all the lists before they were 

 printed (especially in the case of the herbs whose percentage numbers are not 

 given), owing to the fact that the first parts of the manuscript were sent to 

 the printers before the last parts were finished, and many of the + and — 

 marks were therefore located by guess. The necessary comparisons have been 

 made in the paged proof, however, resulting in the discovery of several incon- 

 sistencies and many places where the double + marks should have been used 

 and were not; all of which are now rectified in the index as far as possible. 

 There are over twice as many numbers in heavy type in this index as there 

 are double + marks in the plant lists, partly on account of the more careful 

 comparisons just mentioned, and partly because they are given here for techni- 

 cal and common names separately and also for famihes. 



The object of making these numbers conspicuous in the index, as stated 

 on pages 186-187, is to enable any one who desires a supply of any particular 

 tree or other plant to tell in two or three glances in which part of northern 

 Florida it is most abundant. 



Where the references to any plant do not include any number in heavy 

 type either the name is a synonym, or an extra-limital species mentioned inci- 

 dentally, or else it is difficult to decide in which of several regions the species 

 is most abundant. And where there are two or more such numbers in the same 

 line either it is a name (generic or common) which belongs to two or more 

 species, or else the species in question seems to be equally abundant in two 

 or more regions and perceptibly less so in the rest. 



The number of species listed is about 750 (including nearly 100 weeds, 

 which probably did not grow in this area before the discovery of America), 

 which is probably not over half the total number of vascular plants in northern 

 Florida. But those omitted, together with all the cellular cryptogams (which 



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