FLORAS OF THE WORLD—PART II 13 
A detailed account of plant distribution, with maps showing the 
range of most of the species, is being actively published family 
by family. Colored illustrations of practically every species are 
available in the various iconographies cited. Christensen’s publi- 
cations on botanical history and bibliography, extending through 
the year 1939 and continued to date in less detailed form by other 
botanists, constitute the only complete botanical bibliography of 
any European country, or indeed of any country in the world, 
with a comparable literature. There is no single comprehensive 
list of Danish vernacular names, but they are included in 
Jenssen-Tusch’s Scandinavian work of 1867 and in Lyttkens’ 
Swedish nomenclator of 1904-15, and a very extensive compilation 
of vernacular names prepared by Johan Lange from Axel Lange’s 
manuscript collections is now in course of publication; and there 
is an extensive list of Faroese vernacular names. More or less ade- 
quate works are available on plant associations, weeds, cultivated 
plants, poisonous plants, edible, medicinal, and other wild eco- 
nomic plants, and on various minor subjects. 
The 22 counties (amter) of Denmark are too small and too 
numerous to afford a satisfactory basis for the subdivision of the 
literature and, moreover, have very seldom been the subject of 
special floras, and the 50-odd botanical districts employed in 
current distributional studies are obviously still less adapted for 
that purpose. The local works have consequently been grouped 
under the headings of Jylland (Engl. Jutland, the mainland with 
some associated islands) and the island groups of Bornholm, 
Faroes, Fyn, and Sjelland (Zealand). In each case the name 
of the county (amt) to which a given flora relates is given in 
parentheses if not included in the title. Among the principal 
local floras, most of them old, are those of Bornholm (1956), 
the Faroes (1952), Falster (1863), Nordfyn (1910) and Sydfyn 
(1857), Haderslev (1873), Horsens (1915), Lolland (1864), 
Roskilde (1874), Nordostsjelland (1872) and Sydvestsjelland 
(1873-74), and Tondern (1877). There are also floras, mostly 
modern, of numerous medium-sized to small islands, including 
46r¢, Als, Anholt, Brandsg, Endelave, Fang, Hesselo, Hjelm, Jord- 
sand, Lesg, Langli, Mang, Rome, Sams, Seiro (Sejero), Tung, 
and Vorsg, as well as of a few smaller ones. Of 99 primary titles 
cited, 32 are general and 67 insular or local; and there are 44 
subsidiary titles, making a total of 148. 
FINLAND.—The republic of Finland, with a land area of 305,879 
square kilometers (117,907 square miles), has a flora of 1,175 
indigenous species (Ulvinen, 1948; microspecies not included). 
The 9 floras listed here, of which 6 are fairly modern, are mostly 
of the pocket manual or field guide type and are all in Finnish 
except for those in Swedish by Alcenius and Brenner; the standard 
work is Hiitonen’s Suomen kasvio (1933), but more recent data 
on distribution is available in Hiitonen and Poijarvi’s school flora 
(1958). The fundamental catalog of the species and their detailed 
distribution is Hjelt’s Conspectus (1888-1926), in Latin and 
Swedish. In 1889 Saelan and others published a series of over 
1400 diagrams showing occurrence of each species by botanical 
