floristicadj.n.

1898 R. Pound & F. E. Clements Phytogeogr. Nebraska p. iii The authors..directed the work of the Survey with a view to..a report,.. in which the floral covering of the state should be treated from the phytogeographical stand-point, and a series of monographs dealing with it from a floristic standpoint.

1909 E. Warming et al. Oecol. Plants 1 Floristic plant-geography is concerned with—1. The compilation of a ‘Flora’, that is, a list of species growing within a larger or smaller area... 2. The division of the earth's surface into natural floristic tracts..according to their affinities... 3. The sub-division of the larger natural floristic tracts—floristic kingdoms—into smaller natural tracts.

1918 L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker II. 414 This great floristic work was fitly rounded off by his completion of the ‘Ceylon Flora’.

1928 V. G. Childe Most Anc. East iii. 50 To find a floristic and faunistic environment comparable to that encountered by the most ancient Egyptians one must travel far upstream into the monsoon zone.

1969 Nature 29 Nov. 846/2 The floristic and faunistic richness of old grasslands.

1898 R. Pound & F. E. Clements Phytogeogr. Nebraska v. 215 Phytogeography..dealing not only with floristic and distribution, but..with morphology, histology, and ecology as well.

1964 V. J. Chapman Coastal Vegetation i. 9 On the Continent, another system of vegetation analysis is employed. This is based essentially on floristics.

1909 E. Warming et al. Oecol. Plants 145 Grassy surfaces lining a railway differ floristically according to the aspect.

1970 Watsonia 8 99 Hundreds of plants of this fairly distinct species being scattered over a large area of otherwise floristically rather poor rock.