30 MISC. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Bertrand, Marcel. Synopsis de la flore de Belgique. Nouvelle édition du 
Synopsis de M. C. Alexis. 236 p. illus. (118 plates of fig.). 18 em. 
Gembloux, 1928. 
Annotated flora of vascular plants in form of keys. (Not seen; title and 
annotation supplied by W. Robyns.) 
Boxus, Robert. La flore médicale wallonne. 179 p. 24 cm. Huy, 1939. 
Alphabetical list of 1847 Walloon names of native and cultivated plants, 
with short descriptions, range, flowering dates, medicinal properties and uses. 
(Not seen; title and annotation supplied by W. Robyns.)—See also (for 
Walloon names) Feller, below, and Bastin, Boxus, Dahmen, Desfresne, and 
Germay, under Liége; and, for works on medicinal plants, Aigret and 
Francois, above, and additional references there given. 
Chalon, Jean. Les plantes médicinales et vénéneuses de la flore belge. 
Bul. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 48: 107-194. 1912. 
Discussion of earlier works; annotated list of native and cultivated medici- 
nal and poisonous plants, vascular and cellular, systematically arranged, 
with uses, etc.—See also Aigret and Francois, above, and additional refer- 
ences there given. 
and others. Que sont devenues nos plantes rares de 1862? Bul. 
Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 52: 18-93. 1913. 
Annotated lists, by numerous authors, of rarer vascular plants and 
Characeae of various areas in Belgium; index.—See also his Un sujet 
intéressant d’observation. Bul. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 48: 74-77. 1912. (Un- 
annotated list of vascular plants of Belgium indicated as very rare by Crépin 
in the first edition of his Manuel in 1862 [actually 1860].) 
Cogniaux, Alfred. Petite flore de Belgique 4 l’usage des écoles. 4. éd. 
349 p. 138 fig. 16 cm. Bruxelles, 1910. (1st ed. 1883.) 
Annotated flora of vascular plants and Characeae in form of very briefly 
annotated keys. (Not seen; title and annotation supplied by W. Robyns.) 
Crépin, Francois. Guide du botaniste en Belgique (plantes vivantes et 
fossiles). vii, 495 p. 19 cm. Bruxelles, Paris, 1878. (Gray Herbarium 
library.) 
History of botany in Belgium, botanical gardens, libraries, botanical re- 
gions, list of fossil flora, lists of rarer plants of various regions, bibli- 
ographies. 
Manuel de la flore de Belgique. 5. éd. Ixviii, 495 p. 6384 fig., 
map. 17 cm. Bruxelles, 1884. (Numerous reissues, sometimes numbered 
as new editions. 1st ed. 1860.) 
Glossary (terms in French and Flemish), key to families; annotated, keyed 
flora of vascular plants and Characeae (1,487 species, of which 1251 are 
indigenous), with descriptions of families and genera (and keys to the 
species) and French and Flemish vernacular names. Still the standard 
manual of the Belgian flora. 
Delogne, C. H. Flore analytique de la Belgique. Plantes indigénes et 
cultivées. xv, 655 p. 20.5 cm. Namur [pref. 1888]. (Gray Herbarium 
library.) 
Botanical zones, etc.; briefly annotated flora of wild and cultivated sperma- 
tophytes [4,240 species] in form of keys, with vernacular names; glossary. 
Devos, André. Coup d’oeil sur l’histoire de la flore belge. Bul. Soc. Roy. 
Bot. Belg. 27 (1): 15-70. 1888. 
Critical account of botanists and botanical publications; list of old herbaria; 
bibliography, chronologically arranged, containing separately published works 
only.—See also (for bibliographies) De Wildeman and Durand, Duvigneaud, 
Geonelie Gravis, Hauman and Balle, Rehder, Robyns, and Van Aerdschot, 
elow. 
Flore compléte de la Belgique. Espéces indigénes et plantes 
cultivées sans abri. xxiii, 739 p. 17 em. Mons, 1885. 
Annotated flora of wild and hardy cultivated vascular plants with keys 
and usually brief diagnoses, and notes on uses; bibliography. 
Les plantes naturalisées et introduites en Belgique. Bul. Soc. Roy. 
Bot. Belg. 9: 5-122. 1870. 
General remarks, statistics; annotated list of 512 phanerogams, including 
cultivated plants.—See also Hock, below. 
