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one plan, and uniformly printed in the successive volumes 

 of a single work the younger de Candolle, besides working 

 up many of the Orders himself, having gone through the 

 tedious labour of editing them, giving to the botanical 

 world a splendid monument of industry and perseverance, 

 which will long be of great practical utility '.* 



Other works dealing with various European Floras were 

 Willkomm and Lange's Prodromus Florae Hispanicae, 1861- 

 93; Nyman's Conspectus Florae Europaeae, 1878-84, with 

 two supplements; Gremli's Flore analytique de la Suisse, 

 of which an English edition was published in 1889 ; and, 

 most recent of all; Ascherson and Graebner's Synopsis 

 der Mittel-Europaischen Flora, which was commenced 

 in 1896. Besides these, Parlatore's Flora Italiana was 

 appearing during the earlier part of the period, but the 

 publication was slow and irregular. The vegetation of 

 Eastern Russia was being carefully studied by Maximo- 

 witsch. 



Passing on to the Asiatic Floras the most noteworthy 

 was the magnificent work of Dr., afterwards Sir, Joseph 

 Hooker, The Flora of British India, 1872-97, in which he 

 had the assistance of C. B. Clarke, J. G. Baker, W. P. Hiern, 

 M. T. Masters, J. F. Duthie, and other botanists. It 

 would be difficult to speak in terms of too great praise 

 of the labours of the veteran botanist in this connexion; 

 the work will ever constitute an imperishable monument 

 to his fame. As offshoots of the Flora Indica, we may 

 perhaps regard Trimen's Flora of Ceylon, 1893-1900, and 

 Cooke's Flora of Bombay, begun as the century was closing. 



The Linnean Society of London published in their 

 Journal a Flora of China Proper, Formosa, Hainan, Corea, 

 the. Luchu Archipelago, and Hong Kong, which was com- 

 piled by Messrs. Forbes and Hemsley. The different 

 numbers describing the plants appeared as vols. xxiii and 



1 Loc. cit. 



