A Chronology of Middle Missouri Plains Village Sites

Introduction
The present publication represents more than a decade of arduous work devoted to the compilation and revision
of scientific and common names of the taxa of seed plants known to occur in the West Indies. The West Indies
as defined in a previous paper by Acevedo- Rodríguez and Strong (2008) include three main archipelagos that
divide the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean (Map. 1), i.e., the Bahamas Archipelago (Bahamas Islands +
Turks and Caicos Islands), the Greater Antilles (Map 3), and the Lesser Antilles (Map 2). The project originally started as
a compilation of scientific names once used for the seed plants of the Greater Antilles, and it was thought to constitute the
starting point for the Flora of the Greater Antilles project. While funding for such an ambitious project never materialized,
the checklist slowly increased its scope to include the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, and common names for plants from
the region. Due to the lack of time and resources, we have not included records from the islands off the coast of Venezuela
(Netherland Antilles, Venezuelan Antilles, Trinidad, and Tobago).
The Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies constitutes the first modern effort to account for all the names (scientific
and vernacular) of seed plants known to occur in the Bahamas Archipelago, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser
Antilles. We have compiled binomials treated in major floristic works and taxonomic revisions pertinent to the West
Indies. Additional names were compiled from specimen records at the Smithsonian Institution (U.S. National Herbarium)
Map 1. West Indies and Surrounding Continents.