FURTHER ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS 

 EMPLOYED IN THIS WORK 



(The customary and well known abbreviations for the states of the Union and 

 months of the year are omitted from this list.) 



Adv., adventive, i.e. as yet only casual 

 and sporadic. 



Afr., Africa. 



Alb., Alberta. 



Am., America or American. 



Assina., Assiniboia. 



Austr., Australia. 



auth., authors. 



B. O., British Columbia. 



cm., centimeter (or centimeters), the 

 hundredth part of a meter, = about 

 two-fifths of an inch. 



cosmop., cosmopolitan. 



distr., distributed. 



dm., decimeter (or decimeters), the tenth 

 part of a meter, = about four inches. 



e., east or eastern. 



eastw., eastward. 



Eu., Europe. 



Eurasia, Europe and Asia. 



/., filius, son, or the younger. 



FL, flowers or flowering. 



Fr., fruit or fruiting. 



Greenl, Greenland. 



Huds. B., Hudson Bay. 



I., island. 



Jntrod., introduced, i.e. brought in inten- 

 tionally, as through horticulture, etc. 



I. T., Indian Territory. 



L., lake. 



Lab., Labrador. 



L. I., Long Island, New York. 



m., meter (or meters), = about 39j 

 inches. 



Man., Manitoba. 



Man. ed. 0, Sixth edition of Gray's Man- 

 ual of Botany. 



Mex., Mexico. 



mm., millimeter (or millimeters), = 

 about one twenty-fifth of an inch. 



int., mts., mountain, mountains. 



n., north or northern. 



N. A., North America. 



nat., naturalized, i.e. thoroughly estab- 

 lished. 



N. B., New Brunswick. 



n. e., northeast. 



Nfd., Newfoundland. 



no., number. 



northw., northward. 



N. S., Nova Scotia. 



n. w., northwest. 



Okla., Oklahoma. 



Ont., Ontario. 



P. E. I., Prince Edward Island. 



Que., Province of Quebec. 



R., river. 



s., south or southern. 



S. A., South America. 



Sask., Saskatchewan. 



s. e., southeast. 



Siber., Siberia. 



southw., southward. 



Subtrop., sub-tropical. 



s. w., southwest. 



Temp., temperate. 



Trop., tropics or tropical. 



w., west or western. 



westw., westward. 



W. L, West Indies. 



p (pronounced mu) . A micron, the mil- 

 lionth part of a meter, a measure 

 used in microscopic studies. 



- Figures or words connected by the 



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