Download or read book Plant Life of the Pacific World written by Elmer Drew Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The safe forests and jungles of the tropics. General principles of botanical classification. Plants of the seashore. The mangrove forest. The secondary forests and open grass-lands. The primary forest. Noteworthy plants of special interest. Weeds and their significance. The cultivated plants. Jungle foods. Problems of Malysian plant distribution. Problems of Polynesian plant distribution. The significance of certain local plant names. Notes on specific Islands and Island groups. Notes on botanical history, exploration, and bibliography. Simple directions for preparing botancial specimens.