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R. FRIEDLÄNDER & SOHN, Publishers, BERLIN N.W. 6, Karlstrasse 11, 



To be published by our firm in 1910: [46 



A Manual Flora of Egypt 



Reno M uschler, Phil. Dr. 



Correspond. Member of the Institut Egyptien, Assistant to the Royal Botanic Garden of Dahlem near Berlin. 



With a Preface by Professor Dr. Georg Schweinfurth. 



The ever increasing number of those who visit the Mle 

 Valley with every recurring winter should alone form, it would 

 seem, a sufficiently numerous public to call for the production 

 of a modern flora of Egypt. 



Twenty-three years have elapsed since Ascherson and 

 Schweinfurth published their valuable catalogue „Illustration 

 de la flore d'Egypte". Since this period many additions have 

 been made to Egyptian botany, a large number of plants have 

 become better known, and the knowledge of the ränge of others 

 has been greatly extended. 



The necessity for a concise, complete and at the same 

 time inexpensive treatise on the flora of Egypt has long been 

 feit, and the preparation of such a work has been frequently 

 urged on the writer. The „Manual Flora of Egypt", the 

 title adopted for the present work, will comprise within a 

 reasonable compass descriptions of all the flowering plants and 

 ferns found in Egypt from the Mediterranean Sea to Wadi 

 Haifa, and from the Oasis of the Libyan Desert to the Eed 

 Sea and the Suez Canal. 



The descriptions used for the identifications of the plants 

 will be as short as possible. The geographical ränge of each 

 species will be stated and in the case of non-endemic plants 

 a short account will be presented of their ränge in other 

 countries. As far as the information would permit the arabic 

 names of the plants are quoted. Analytical keys in which the 

 salient characters of the genern and species have been made 

 clear, have been prefixed to each order and genus. 



The descriptions are in almost all cases original and have 

 been based usually on the examination of both the living and 

 dried specimens. The arrangement followed is that used in 

 Engler and Prantel's elaborate work: „Die Natürlichen 

 Pflanzenfamilien". 



