XXIV PREFACE. 



Denmark is arranged with Scandinavia ; Iceland is allotted 

 a separate position, as it would have been absurd to rank 

 it with the Scandinavian peninsula ; Elsass and Lothringen 

 will be found in Grermany. Africa ; North, Central, and South 

 America, and then Asia; China and Japan are here grouped 

 together, whilst India forms an important item ; after the 

 local floras I have quoted the Official Forest Reports ; this list 

 is not complete, but I have cited all that I have seen, quite 

 sufficient to guide an inquirer who may wish for additional 

 information ; Adm. is used in this section briefly for Adminis- 

 tration. The East Indian Archipelago is placed at the end 

 of the continental Asiatic floras, and leads us on naturally to 

 Australia and Oceania. 



Botanical Gardens commence with section 104, and are 

 arranged in the same manner as the Local Floras. Certain 

 cultural books are here given, as showing what plants are in 

 cultivation in the respective countries. I have also in each 

 case enumerated such seed catalogues as I knew of ; many 

 descriptions of new plants have been issued in this form, as 

 for instance, Fischer and Meyer, page 443, and the Berlin lists, 

 page 424, and yet no botanical literature is so fugitive as these. 

 The very gardens which issue them are frequently without 

 complete sets ; they are primarily intended for temporary use, 

 and usually are soon lost or destroyed. 



Periodical publications close our lists ; — first, the Transac- 

 tions and Journals of scientific societies, afterwards the 

 Magazines which appear at stated intervals. Much local in- 

 formation is stored up in some of the provincial Field Club 

 Reports ; these I have endeavoured to catalogue, that they may 

 not be forgotten in case of need. 



The Addenda includes the titles of such books as came to 



