APPENDIX III 



BOOKS ON THE SWISS ALPINE FLORA 



FLORAS 



The best flora in English is 



A. Gremli's The Flora of Switzerland: For the Use of Tourists and Fisld- 

 Botanists (Translated from the Fifth Gernian Edition by Leonard 

 W. Paitson. David Nutt, 1889), 



which is now, unfortunately, out of print. A useful book, 



however, is 



K. W. V. Dalla-Torre's The Tourist's Guide to the Flora of the Alys 

 (Translated and Edited by Alfred W. Bennett. Swan Sonnenschein, 

 Le Bas & Lowrcy, 1886. 5s.). 



Both these works are handy for the pocket and for use in 

 the field, the latter especially. Neither of them are, however, 

 really suited to the lay reader, nor are thev illustrated. 

 Gremli's Flora is a standard work, written in technical botanical 

 language, often severely contracted. The artificial system of 

 LinnjEUs is made use of as a key to the genera, and this, while 

 now an archaic contrivance, has its advantages. Grenili's 

 flora includes not only the Alpine plants, but the wlu)le 

 vegetation of Lowland Switzerland. 



Dalla-Torre's Tourist Guide is \\Titten, so far as jx^ssible, in 

 non-technical language, which is not contractcxl. It is not 

 confined to the Swiss Alpine flora, but treats of the Alpine 



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