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centages of herbaceous plants based on the calculations of Sinnott and 

 Bailey. Their table is as follows: 



Temperate Regions 



Region 



Northeastern United States (Gray) 



Northern United States (Britten and Brown) 



Southeastern United States (Small) 



Southern United States (Chapman) 



Rocky Mountains (Coulter) 



Los Angeles (Abrams) 



Florida Keys (Small) 



Great Britain (Hooker) 



France (Cusin and Ansberque) 



Germany (Engler) 



Switzerland (Schinz and Keller) 



Russian Empire (Ledebour) 



Norway (Blytt) 



Iceland (Stefansson) 



EUesmereland (Simmons) 



Faroes (Warming et al.) 



Spain (Ibiza) 



Crete (Raulin) 



Sicily (Tornabene) 



Syria (Post) 



Flora Orientalis (Boissier) 



Japan (Matsumura) 



Tropical Regions 



Brazil (Mueller) 



Ditto, Amazon Valley only 



British West Indies (Grisebach) 



Tropical Africa (Oliver and Thiselton-Dyer) 



British India (Hooker) 



Bombay (Cooke), Lowland only 



Upper Gangetic Plain (Duthie) 



Ceylon (Trimen) 



Java (Koorders) 



Dutch East Indies (Miquel) 



Malay Peninsula (King) 



Hongkong (Bentham) 



Manila (Merrill) 



No of 

 Species 



2,280 

 2,662 

 4,608 

 2,266 

 2,206 

 802 



927 



3,924 



1,117 



1,899 



14.704 



857 



221 



76 



164 



4,481 



1,461 



1,697 



2,949 

 9,771 



3,257 



No. of 

 Herbs 



1,748 

 2,089 

 3,312 



1,666 



1,910 

 627 

 225 

 821 



3,492 

 947 



1,726 

 12,588 



741 

 200 



71 

 150 



3,554 

 1,161 



1,295 

 2,477 

 8,110 

 1,861 



Per Cent 



Herbs 



11 

 78 

 72 



74 

 87 

 78 

 54 



85 

 91 

 86 

 86 

 90 

 93 

 91 

 79 

 79 

 76 

 84 

 83 

 57 



26 



12 

 30 



42 

 42 



39 

 54 

 37 

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25 

 17 

 40 

 32 



When it is remembered that these figures do not include mono- 

 cotyledons they add additional weight to those given for the local 

 flora area, the total Long Island Flora, and for the 400 commonest 

 species on the island. Summarized these figures show the following 

 percentages of herbs: 



