What is "floras"

Usage examples of "floras".

Compare the several floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising number of forms have been ranked by one botanist as good species, and by another as mere varieties.

De Candolle has wall remarked in his great and admirable work, that floras gain by naturalisation, proportionally with the number of the native genera and species, far more in new genera than in new species.

The floras of distant continents would not by such means become mingled in any great degree.

Watson has recently remarked, `In receding from polar towards equatorial latitudes, the Alpine or mountain floras really become less and less arctic.