FLORAS OF THE WORLD—PART II 19 
Radnor) have comital floras (in the case of Anglesey and Caernar- 
von a joint flora, in the case of Denbigh not a complete flora). 
Of these, 4 date from 1895 to 1911, 4 from 1926 to 1950. From 
1 to 7 local publications are cited for all counties except Brecon- 
shire. Of 51 primary titles, 4 are general, 18 county, and 34 
local; and there are 80 subsidiary titles, making a total of 181. 
ICELAND.—Iceland, an island republic with a surface of about 
102,923 square kilometers (39,700 square miles), about 83 percent 
of which is destitute of vegetation, has a flora of 662 species 
(Gréntved, 1942), of which 224 belong to the genera Hieracium 
and Taraxacum. It possesses an excellent detailed catalog by 
Grontved (1942), with a considerable series of subsequent addi- 
tions, and three modern descriptive floras, one in English by 
Ostenfeld and Gréntved (1934), two in Icelandic by Love (1945) 
and Stefansson (revised by Steindorsson, 1948), respectively, both 
the latter well illustrated. There are no separate works on ver- 
nacular names or useful plants except Halldérsson’s volume on 
useful plants in 1783, but the vernacular names are more or less 
fully given in the floras. There are modern treatments of orna- 
mental plants and of topography, vegetation, and plant forma- 
tions. An extensive bibliography, lacking a few floristic titles, 
is given by Grontved, and Dr. Askell Love has prepared an 
essentially complete, briefly annotated typescript catalog of the 
whole botanical literature of which he has kindly given the author 
opy. 
Of the 58 primary titles given, 9 are general and 49 are local 
floras, or in most cases no more than local lists based on one or a 
very few season’s observations; and there are 35 subsidiary titles, 
making a total of 93. Aside from the lists for some islands, which 
may well be essentially complete, the papers most meriting the 
title of floras are those on Eyjafjordur (Eyja Fjord; Oskarsson, 
1949), Reykjanes (peninsula; Hadaé, 1949), Snefellsnes (penin- 
sula; Jonsson, 1899), and Vestfirdir (Vestfjarda Peninsula; 
Steindorsson, 1946). 
The local floras here listed are not divided geographically, but 
in each case the position is indicated according to an arbitrary 
division of the island into 6 regions based on lines of latitude and 
longitude, as explained in the text. 
_ITALY.—The republic of Italy, with an area of 301,020 square 
kilometers (116,224 square miles), has a flora of 3,877 species, 
including the commonly cultivated plants (Fiori, 1923; the species 
taken in a broad sense). Arcangeli (1894), whose specific con- 
cept was probably nearer that of the average modern taxonomist, 
had 4,932 species. The standard flora is Fiori’s Nuova flora 
analitica (1923-29), a 2-volume work; Baroni’s Guida botanica 
d’Italia (8d ed. 1956) is the standard pocket manual. There are 
several older and much larger works. A name list of native, 
adventive, and outdoor-cultivated spermatophytes by Ciferri and 
Giacomini is in course of publication. There have been three 
editions of an Iconographia florae italicae intended to accompany 
®Or 428 species, excluding Hieracium and Taraxacum, according to Steindérsson in 
ee 1948; 535 (of which 382 are indigenous) on the same basis according to Léve and 
e, 1956. 
