Matthias de Lobel ( 1538 – 1616 ) published his Stirpium Adversaria Nova ( 1570 – 1571 ) and a massive compilation of illustrations while Clusius ’ s ( 1526 – 1609 ) magnum opus was Rariorum Plantarum Historia of 1601 which was a compilation of his Spanish and Hungarian floras and included over 600 plants that were new to science.

Also, from a purely curatorial perspective the term pteridosperms is a useful shorthand for describing the fern-like fronds that were probably produced by seed plants, which are commonly found in many Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossil floras.

By the end of the Cretaceous, angiosperms dominated tree floras in many areas, although some evidence suggests that biomass was still dominated by cycad and ferns until after the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction.

Among the many ways of classifying plants are by regional floras, which, depending on the purpose of study, can also include fossil flora, remnants of plant life from a previous era.

The following species are accepted by one or more regional floras:

Lastly, floras may be subdivided by special environments:

A compendium of world floras has been compiled by David Frodin.

In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to ninety percent from present, with floras diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America.

The Miocene floras of Rusinga and Mfwanganu islands are subject to a long-term study by paleobotanists.

Raunkiær devised a system for categorising plants by life-form as a way of ecologically meaningful comparison of species and vegetation in regions having different floras.

The collection is also rich in works illustrating flowers and plants – early herbals and botanical writings, floras – works on horticulture, and even agriculture as it affects the life of country estates, such as a 1495 edition of Pietro de ' Crescenzi ’ s Il libro della agricultura.

The sharply cooler climate of the past few million years eliminated a temperate-zone connection between North America and Eurasia, but common Laurasian origins and a long history of temperate-climate land bridges account for the botanical similarities between the temperate floras on the two continents.

At the colonial office he had great influence in furthering the cause of natural science, particularly in connection with equipment of the Palliser Expedition in Canada ( for his efforts, the Ball Range in the Canadian Rockies was named after him ), and with William Jackson Hooker's efforts to obtain a systematic knowledge of the colonial floras.

* Constantin von Ettingshausen ( 1826 – 1897 ), Tertiary floras

The taxonomy of Verbascum has not undergone any significant revision since Svanve Mürbeck's monographies in the 30s, with the exception of the work of Arthur Huber-Morath, who used informal group in organizing the genus for the floras of Iran and Turkey to account for many intermediate species.

Plants are grouped into floras based on region, period, special environment, or climate.

Traditionally floras are books, but some are now published on CD-ROM or websites.

He was distinguished for his researches on the Tertiary floras of various parts of Europe, and on the fossil floras of Australia and New Zealand.

Only two species of vascular plant are currently known to grow there – one of the smallest such floras on any island.

As a research center on central and northern subtropical floras of China, the garden has a living collection of about 3, 000 species belonging to 913 genera of 188 families.

The journal covers papers on new or poorly known faunas and floras and new approaches to systematics.

In recent DNA based phylogenetic analyses of the Saxifragaceae, the sections Micranthes and Merkianae are shown to be more closely related to the Boykinia and Heuchera clades, and the most recent floras separate these groups as the genus Micranthes.

Regional floras commonly are divided into categories such as native flora and agricultural and garden flora, the lastly mentioned of which are intentionally grown and cultivated.

Successions and floras.

In some genera, it is possible to identify and name hundreds or even thousands of microspecies, which may be grouped together as aggregate species, typically listed in floras with the convention " Genus species agg.

The Apsley Macleay Gorges are a converging point for moister eastern coastal and dry western floras, and some 950 native plant species have been identified, of which 36 are rare or threatened.

This region is biogeographically interesting as the meeting point between the subtropical flora of the north of Australia and the cool temperate and arid zone floras of the south and west.

The Steinhardt Conservatory houses BBG's extensive indoor plant collection in three climate-controlled pavilions for tropical, warm temperate, and desert floras.

Genera such as Crocus and Iris are significant components of the floras of parts of Eurasia, and Iris also is well represented in North America.

* John Ray publishes Catalogus plantarum Angliæ, the basis of all later floras of England.

It was mis-identified as Great Hairy Willowherb in contemporary floras.

Some classic and modern floras are listed below.

This eco-region is noted for its Daurian flora, which has influence from the adjacent Siberian and Manchurian floras.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Thus such great American documentaries as The River and The Plow That Broke The Plains were composed as visual stories rather than as illustrated lectures.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

The topographical results of his explorations were published in Paris between 1860 and 1873 in Geodesie d ' Ethiopie, full of the most valuable information and illustrated by ten maps.

Botanical guides from this time were sparsely illustrated.

Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks.

Love's varying genre interests were illustrated in a 1991 interview, in which she stated: " There's a part of me that wants to have a grindcore band and another that wants to have a Raspberries-type pop band.

The Fortune cards were illustrated by Scott Kirschner and Jeff Miracola.

In this way, song narrative was illustrated through a series of slides whose changes were simultaneous with the narrative development.

The main purpose of illustrated songs was to encourage sheet music sales, and they were highly successful with sales reaching into the millions for a single song.

Later, with the birth of film, illustrated songs were used as filler material preceding films and during reel changes.

These early RPG fanzines were generally typed, sold mostly in an A5 format ( in the UK ) and were usually illustrated with abysmal or indifferent artwork.

It was written by Simon Burley and Peter Haines and was illustrated by a group of artists who were working for 2000 AD at the time.

He visited the United States in 1924, and gave a series of illustrated lectures in New York City and other cities in the United States that were attended by very large and enthusiastic audiences, sparking Egyptomania in America.

The different foreign-policy conceptions held by Hitler and Ribbentrop were illustrated in their reaction to the Fall of Singapore in 1942: Ribbentrop wanted this great British defeat to be a day of celebration in Germany, whereas Hitler forbade any celebrations on the grounds that Singapore represented a sad day for the principles of white supremacy.

Museum expansion slowed after World War I, and the collection did not acquire many significant new works ; exceptions were Georges de La Tour's Saint Thomas and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's ( 1845 – 1934 ) 1935 donation of 4, 000 engravings, 3, 000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books.

They were magnificently illustrated, chiefly by Joseph Dinkel.

The Gospels were illustrated in an insular style containing a fusion of Celtic, Germanic and Roman elements ; they were probably originally covered with a fine metal case made by a hermit called Billfrith.

They were also featured in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer, which was published in 2003 and illustrated by Brett Helquist, as well as its sequels, The Wright 3 and The Calder Game.

Eight of these books were illustrated by Clifford Geary in a distinctive white-on-black scratchboard style.

R. F. Littledale criticized the Sun myth theory when he illustrated that Max Müller on his own principles was himself only a Solar myth, whilst Alfred Lyall delivered a still stronger attack on the same theory and its assumption that tribal gods and heroes, such as those of Homer, were mere reflections of the Sun myth by proving that the gods of certain Rajput clans were really warriors who founded the clans not many centuries ago, and were the ancestors of the present chieftains.