FLORAS OF THE WORLD—PART II 17 
and disappearing species, ecology, phytogeography, origin of flora, 
plant formations, and other subjects. 
For Great Britain as a whole, with Ireland, 703 primary works 
are cited, of which 80 are general, 44 at the level of major political 
or historical divisions, 130 county (comital), and 449 local; and 
there are 722 subsidiary titles, making a total of 1,425. 
Channel Islands.—The Channel Islands, with an area of 194 
square kilometers (75 square miles), have a flora of 690 species 
(Lester-Garland, 1903). There is no general flora but all the 
islands are covered by partial floras, and there is a list of the 
plants of the whole archipelago showing their local distribution. 
Six local works are cited, including one on Guernsey vernacular 
names, and there are 14 subsidiary titles, making a total of 20. 
England.—England, with an area of 130,346 square kilometers 
(50,327 square miles), has a flora of 1,687 species (author’s count, 
based on Druce’s Comital flora). It has no general flora beyond 
those for the British Isles, but 5 general titles are cited, mostly 
on Saxon and Old English vernacular names. Of the 40 counties 
(plus the London area) all but 2 possess one or more separate 
county floras; one of these, that for Lancashire, is incomplete, 
lacking the “commonest species.” The only two counties without 
individual floras, Leicestershire and Rutland, are covered by a 
joint flora. Three others, Cumberland, Durham, and Northum- 
berland, each of which is the subject of a much older flora of its 
own, are comprised in a joint flora in 1939; and Yorkshire, whose 
only comprehensive flora dates from 1840, is fully covered by three 
partial floras dating from 1888 to 1906. Of these 41 floras, 4 
were published from 1840 to 1869, 8 from 1887 to 1899, 12 from 
1903 to 1914, 11 from 1926 to 1939, and 6 from 1948 to 1957. 
From 1 to 33 (York) local publications are cited for each county 
except 2 (Huntingtonshire, Rutland). Of 365 primary titles 
dealing with England, 5 are general, 78 county, and 282 local; 
and there are 355 subsidiary titles, giving a total of 720. 
Ireland.—The island of Ireland, or Eire, including the Republic 
of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with an area of 83,851 square 
kilometers (32,375 square miles), has a flora of 1,133 species 
(Webb, 1953). All the species are described in the general floras 
of Great Britain; the only complete descriptive flora of Ireland is 
that of Webb (2d ed. 1953), but there is also a semipopular flora 
by Adams (1931). The distribution of the species by districts 
is stated in Praeger’s The botanist in Ireland, which contains a 
great deal of general information on the flora. The detailed dis- 
tribution in Ireland was covered in More’s Contributions towards 
a Cybele hibernica (2d ed. 1898), and increases in knowledge were 
periodically compiled by Praeger through 1946. There is a list 
of Gaelic names of medicinal plants with notes on uses, and 
another of Gaelic names provided only with English (not scien- 
tific) equivalents, a list of botanists with biographical informa- 
tion, by Praeger, and a few minor works. 
Of the 32 counties, only 7 are provided with individual floras, 
dating from 1878 to 1950; one of these, that for Westmeath, is 
incomplete, omitting “‘all the commoner species.” On the remain- 
