INDEX OF PLANTS 



Problems incidental to the identification of plants mentioned 

 by Pliny have already been discussed (Vol. VI, Introd., pp. 

 xvi-xviii). 



The identtfications of such early editors of the Natural 

 Hi&tory as Hardouin (1713), Fee (1826), Bostock and Riley 

 (1855), and Littre (1855) are unreliable, since data on the 

 actual fiora of Italy and Greece were then inexact ; and there 

 has been no systematic, comprehensive approach to the 

 problem in the succeeding century. Many of the plants 

 mentioned by Pliny are discussed also by Dioscorides ; but 

 the more recent editions of Dioscorides, such as those of 

 Berendes (1902) and Gunther (1934), mostly list the identifi- 

 cations of such early scholars as Sprengel, Fraas, and Daubeny. 

 As for Theophrastus, only in the case of Sir William Thiselton- 

 Dyer's rndex of plants in the LCL edition of his Enquiry into 

 Plants by Sir Arthur Hort is consideration given to the 

 scientific enumeration of the native plants of Greece byE.de 

 Halacsy in his Conspectus florae Graecae (1901-1904, supple- 

 ments 1908 and 1912) and special research prosecuted by De 

 Candolle, Hanbury, Yule, Schweinfurth, Bretzl, and others. 

 Halacsy's work has been refined by M. Rikh and E. Rubel in 

 their article, " Uber Flora und Vegetation von Kreta und 

 Griechenland " {Vierteljahrsschrift der naturjorschenden Gesell- 

 schaft in Zurich, 68 [1923], pp. 103-227), and there is also 

 available RikU's general survcy of the Mediterranean flora, 

 Das Pflanzenkleid der Mittelmeerldnder (1943 and 1946). As 

 for Italy, we now have Adriano Fiori's comprehensive 

 survey, Ntiovaflora analitica ^''Italia (1923-1929), and Eugenio 

 Baroni"s briefer compendium, Guida botanica d^Italia (1932). 

 Problems relative to cultivated plants have been considerably 

 clarified by the work of Elisabeth Schiemann {Die Entstehunr/ 



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