. An encyclopædia of gardening; . stribution of Vegetables. 972. The total number of species of plants known, or believed to exist, amounts to about44,000, of which 38,000 have been described. According to Humboldt and R. Brown,they are thus distributed : in Europe 7000 ; in temperate Asia 1500; in equinoctial Asiaand the adjacent islands 4500 ; in Africa 3000; in temperate America, in both hemi-spheres, 4000 ; in equinoctial America 13,000 ; in New Holland and the islands of thePacific Ocean 5000 ;— in all 38,000. In Spitzbergen there are 30 species of perfectplants ; in Lapland 534 ; in Icel
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . stribution of Vegetables. 972. The total number of species of plants known, or believed to exist, amounts to about44,000, of which 38,000 have been described. According to Humboldt and R. Brown,they are thus distributed : in Europe 7000 ; in temperate Asia 1500; in equinoctial Asiaand the adjacent islands 4500 ; in Africa 3000; in temperate America, in both hemi-spheres, 4000 ; in equinoctial America 13,000 ; in New Holland and the islands of thePacific Ocean 5000 ;— in all 38,000. In Spitzbergen there are 30 species of perfectplants ; in Lapland 534 ; in Iceland 533 ; in Sweden 1299; in Scotland 900 ; in Britain1400 ; in Brandenburg 2000 ; in Piedmont 2800 ; in Jamaica, Madagascar, and the coastof Coroinandel, from 4000 to 5000. Sect. VIII. Distribution of the British Flora, indigenous and exotic. 973. About thirteen thousand j^lants compose the Hortus Britannicus, or such speciesas admit of cultivation. Mosses, Fungi, Fuci, Algas, and Lichens are, with a few ex-ceptions,
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