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4. Bibliographical Work (for Advanced Systematic 

 Botany). 



Some suggestions as to the method of studying British 

 plants from the systematic standpoint have been made 

 under (i) supra. In order to prosecute the study of syste- 

 matic botany upon a more scientific or more thorough 

 basis a good deal of bibliographical research is necessary. 

 For this reason a section is here devoted to the principal 

 works required, dealing with special genera or memoirs and 

 monographs on groups. The selection is by no means 

 complete, but will afford the student assistance, it is hoped, 

 in so far as main genera go. For a fuller list of British and 

 foreign floras up to 1889, reference may be made to G. 

 Egerton-Warburton's 'Names and Synonyms of British 

 Plants,' where a list of authorities is given. More complete 

 is Bentham and Hooker's 'Genera Plantarum,' 1862-1893, 

 and ' Index Kewensis ' up to date. The * Journal of 

 Botany ' and ' New Phytologist ' contain numerous other 

 important papers, as well as the Journal and Transactions 

 of the Linnean and other Societies. In a second list I 

 have cited a few of the more important general works, 

 British and foreign, for it should be understood that a proper 

 knowledge of the British flora cannot be obtained without 

 comparison with continental forms, therefore travel should 

 be undertaken and reference should be made to the floras 

 of the European countries and those of N. America. A 

 much fuller list is given in the above works, and reviews of 

 all important current floras will be found in the ' Journal of 

 Botany.' These works are, moreover, contained in the 

 large libraries at the British Museum, Kew, Linnean Society 

 and elsewhere. (See also Williams's ' Prodromus.') 



The third list includes a list of papers dealing with 

 nomenclature, a thorny subject (which is well dealt with in 



