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Excerpt from Monograph of Halticid, Vol. 1: In the Collection of the British Museum
Owing to the comparative rarity of all the species here described, and consequently the paucity of them in collections, it is not easy to assign to each its distinct geographical range; very few appear to be widely distributed; each seems to have but the basin of a single river, or one single island on the coast, or oone range of mountains as its sole locality; and it is interesting to observe that the range of the genera. As well as that of the individual species appear to be (as a rule) equally circumscribed. For example, the beautiful genus illono plants has as yet been found only on the Organ Mountains and in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro* the very distinct form of Ceri chrestus is met with only in the north of that continent, the Amazon, and Cayenne; the two European species of the genus Lithonoma, found in Spain and Portugal, are closely allied to each other; and although a third species of this genus has been discovered in Africa, it was taken near Tangiers, on the immediately opposite coast of the Straits of Gibraltar. 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.
