68 BOTANICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH COUNTIES. 
frequently neglected. But the examination of a number of local _ 
Floras has revealed much carelessness in this particular, and it is very 
ay’ 
ponderous volumes of the old herbalists, there are numerous ones i 
the general British Floras, from How’s ‘‘ Phytologia ” (1650) down to 
the present time; it is of course pls to refer more definitely to 
ese. 
class of books requires to be noticed consisting of 
A small 
Floras or catalogues for districts larger than counties, but not referring 
tothe whole country ; the several Scotch Floras, the Northern Flora, 
ndon 
Purton’s Midland Flora, Irvine’s Lo Flora, Balfour’s Edinburgh 3 
: nde 
Blackstone’s ‘‘ Specimen Botanicum,” 1746, consisting of localities in 
various parts of England, the plants arranged in alphabetical “a 
and Milne and Gordon’s “Indigenous Botany,” 1793 (of Which 
south-east o: gland. But the great storehouses of short 
isolated localities, &e., = the various botanical and natural ae 
per iodicals and magazines; only the more important and longer lists 
h . 
localities, many of them unpublished ; a is necpenially the case with - 
sh Muse 
the British collection at the Briti 
list ; it is almost impossible to dichact all the a air lists 
and publications of country scientific societies. I shall therefore be 
grateful to any reader who can add a any particulars if he wi 
them to me that they may be incorporated, as well as any notes on the 
counties not included in this first instalment, 
Cornwatt.—[1 West, 2 East; prencialy divided. Pr. Powmniag 
8. 
Drains N from a central high watershed runnin 
whole test of county. Plants of N. & S. should be distin. 
guished. 
1.—I. W. N. Keys, ‘Flora of Devon & C., 1866-70 (Trans. Dev. 
& Corn. Nat, Hist. Soc.). No districts. List of authors ae 
given, old writers Reslegied, bs ies ged by Bub. Man., ed. 
= 
. 
in Bot. Gar, ii., 37 (1850). —James Irvine in 
Naturalist i i. is (186 
th. —H, C. 
Falmou : Bastien i in Rep. “a is Polytechnic Instit., 1856, 
Lizard —C. "A. Johns, Week es Pe Lizard.—J. G. Baker in 
Journ. Bot., 1871-72. 
