Excerpt from Phytologia, Vol. 58: An International Journal to Expedite Botanical and Phytoecological Publication; November, 1985 The compendium (tabaka, 1977) counts in Kurzeme 1042 Species of vascular plants, and for the Kandava and Kuldiga concrete floras the numbers are 665 and 574, respectively. What follows here are comments and discussion of some 27 species, all but two of them from Kandava township. Bromus secalinus L.: This is mentioned in the compendium as comparatively rare and missing in the Kandava concrete flora. It was not by any means a rarity in Kandava township before wwi. A strange superstition among the farmers suggested that in years of bad harvest, part of the cereals sowed turned into chess (b. Secalinus). In the description of the genus Bromus in the Latvian ssr, Fatare (1977) used an unfortunate translation of Flora von polnisch-livland into Russian, namely Poland and Livland I previously noted that polnisch-livland is the old German name for Latvia's eastern province Latgale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.