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Excerpt from Shrubs of Florida This handbook contains descriptions of all the shrubs known to the author to grow naturally in the state of Florida. In this connection woody annuals are not considered shrubs; but trees which assume shrubby forms or which in some localities occur only as shrubs, are included, as also woody vines. The state is very irregular in outline, but it may primarily be divided into two major districts. One consists of a rather narrow strip of territory extending east and west for a distance of nearly four hundred miles. The other, a peninsula with adjacent islands, together with the Florida Keys, projects southward into a eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico, for a distance of fully four hundred miles. In the first district shrubs characteristic of a temperate climate predominate. In the peninsula the temperate species give place to those characteristic of subtropical regions, while at the southern end of the peninsula, especially on the Everglade Keys and beyond the peninsula on the Florida Keys, shrubs of a tropical character replace other forms. The geographic position of Florida with its temperate, subtropical, and tropical climates, and the varied topography of its surface, collectively result in the occurrence of a remarkably large shrub flora. The state of Florida may be divided into a score of natural geographic regions, but in giving the distribution of the shrubs on the following pages, a more comprehensive subdivision of the two major districts is used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.