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FLORAS OF THE WORLD 
An annotated selected list of floras and floristic works relating 
to vascular plants, including bibliographies and publications deal- 
ing with useful plants and vernacular names. 
Part II 
Western Europe: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, 
Great Britain with Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, 
France, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, San Marino, 
and Switzerland 
By S. F. BLAKE,! formerly senior botanist, Crops Research 
Division, Agricultural Research Service 
CONTENTS 
Page Page 
TUES UG ei) kee ae See eee 1} Annotated list of floras and 
Annotated list of floras and floristic works—Continued 
HOLIStic> WOLkKS —  e ee 28 ether len set ee ee ee ee 420 
AyMpera (2. to Pet tT 2 Ais 28 Norway tote ae ee eer 441 
SDE ee aE len") ah oe ee 29 Paria pe oe ee 463 
Meenas 62209 fh eee eh ee 44 SanJ Marino <2. $2 54.) 1 eee 474 
CT a eee ae 58 Scandimayia s—= a= Ae So 474 
reise ea eee 97 Sypeirr yes one Sl el eee 8 oe ee Be 479 
Great Britain with Ireland ~_________ 213 Swede at 24 fits oP, ee eee. 508 
(Sai pel ete Se Fee ee Fe sees 322 Swyshczenigng ge == ee ee ee 556 
Lie) SP BND SAR Oe Eee 1s Be 829 | Abbreviations of serials cited __-__------ 593 
aERCHMO RTS 65 ot ers SO a AIS. |sAnthor’ pnGexn~ a4 ee eS 621 
Li SELES Tp pe ee ae aaa cies ake took ieee 420) Geoeraphical, index: 222. 22 735 
INTRODUCTION 
The first part of this work, dealing with Africa, Australasia, 
North America, South America, and the islands of the Atlantic, 
Indian, and Pacific Oceans, was published in 1942.2 It contained 
about 2,597 primary and 428 subsidiary titles, a total of 3,025, 
and covered approximately 82,252,955 square kilometers (31,757,- 
897 square miles)? of land surface. 
The present part, dealing with western Europe from Finland to 
Spain, Italy, and Switzerland (thus covering Europe with the 
omission of Germany, the old empire of Austria-Hungary, the 
Balkans region, Poland, and European Russia as now constituted) 
= Sidney F. Blake, world-known_ botanist and expert bibliographer, completed verifying the 
bibliographical data contained in Part II prior to his death on December 31, 1959. Alice Cary 
Atwood, coauthor of Part I, also an expert bibliographer, continued to assist Dr. Blake in 
the preparation of the manuscript from her retirement in 1942 until only a few weeks before 
her death in 1947. 
BE yeep od in Te is made to Bernice G. Schubert, who assisted in the final checking 
fe) is work. 
2U.S. Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication 401. pt. 1, 336 p. 1942. (Dated 
June, but first copies received at U.S. Department of Agriculture on 31 July, 1942.) 
* Figures of area, here as elsewhere in this introduction, are derived from The Columbia 
Lippincott Gazetteer of the World (1952). The regions listed under Finland that are now or 
always have been Russian or largely Russian (with a total of 54 primary and 26 secondary 
titles) are not incorporated in the figures for area. 
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