Excerpt from Notes of a Botanist, Vol. 2 of 2: On the Amazon Andes
Page Piura and Chira - iopography and mineralogy - Indig enous vegetation-to Mr. Bentham - To Mr. Daniel Hanbury (after his return to England)
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