Excerpt from Compositae Newsletter: September, 1977

This part of the Flora of Guatemala follows the format of earlier parts, with citation of pertinent synonymy, statements of distribution and flowering season, ample keys and descriptions. The descriptions are somewhat variable in length, those by Nash and Williams often 8 12 or 15 lines long, but those by specialists often 20 30 lines long. The type is easy to read.

Arrangement within the family departs from the strictly alphabetical sequence of genera that was pioneered by Standley, and which is followed in most other parts of the Flora of Guatemala (notable exceptions are the Orchidaceae, in which the arrangement is strictly systematic, and the Leguminosae, in which it is alphabetical within each of three subfamilies; the Gramineae, on the other hand, are strictly alphabetical). In the Compositae, members of 11 tribes are represented in the Guatemalan flora, and each tribe is treated separately, with a preliminary description and key to genera followed by treatments of genera and Species in alphabetical sequence. This arrangement is of some utility once the reader locates the correct tribe, but it vitiates whatever advantage there may be in a general alphabetical arrangement of genera, and makes it difficult to find any particular genus unless one knows its tribe. There is no index to genera, such as were provided for Gramineae, Orchidaceae, and Leguminosae, in the earlier parts of this same flora. Another feature of the arrange ment of the part on Compositae is that the 148 full - page plates, illustrat ing almost as many genera, are placed together in one section at the back of the book (pp. 455 arranged systematically by tribes and alphabetically within each tribe, with a list (arranged the same way) at the front of the book (pp. VII X). This arrangement of plates waspurposeful, the introduction stating that This should simplify the determination of an unrecognized genus since the plates of related genera will be grouped.

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