editorial

Prilog poznavanju bračke flore (A guide to the flora of the island of Brač) by Vladimir Bevanda was published in Brački zbornik br. 14 (The anthology of the island of Brač, Vol.14) in 1984. It is a lexicon-type guide to the island’s flora, both the native plants and the plants domesticated from abroad. The presentation is well structured by the plants natural appearance and usage, including agricultural plants, fruits, and vegetables. Like some other good writings on the island’s nature in the Vol. 14, which is out of print and scarce in the libraries, Guide is inexcusably over-looked. That’s the reason I’m bringing forward the scans of those valu-able pages. The scans are ‘dead’ text but I’ve improved the accessibility by linking them to the Contents. Also, I’ve appended the two linkable indices: scientific (Latin) and common Croatian plant names

True, the text of Guide is poorly edited, there are quite a few typos; I did not correct them on the scans, but I tried my best to avoid them in the Contents and Indices. True also, Guide is printed on low quality paper, so the scans’ readability is only moderate.

If you read Croatian, enjoy the Bevanda’s lexicon.

UPDATED: 2013-02-12

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