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Excerpt from A Review of the Identifications of the Species Described in Blanco's Flora De Filipinas
In 1845, shortly after Blanco's death,1 a second edition of his Flora de Filipinas was published, an octavo volume of 619 pages, very Similar to the first one in its style and arrangement, but scarcely an improvement. In the second edition species and varieties are described under Latin and 27 under native names only. Six described in the first are excluded from the second, While 198 are added in the second, and no less than 247 described in the first are included in the second under different generic or specific names. AS the descriptions of the species in the second edition contain no references to those in the first, it was in many cases difficult to correlate the species of the two editions up to the time of publication of the Novissima Appendix. In some cases the Specific or generic names were arbitrarily changed by Blanco, while in others he attempted to identify certain species which were treated of in the first edition with those which had previously been described by other authors. Very few of these changes are correct. In other cases in the first edition he described species under their proper names, which in the second he erroneously altered.
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