FLORAS OF THE WORLD—PART II 39 
List of vascular plants and Characeae (4,842 species, of which 4,802 are 
vascular), with very brief indication of range. Many microspecies are listed 
but not numbered. 
Statistique des plantes hybrides signalées dans l’étendue de la 
flore francaise. Compt. Rend. Cong. Soc. Sav. Paris et Dépt. Paris, 1898, 
Sect. Sci. p. 197-212. 1898. 
Unannotated list of vascular plant hybrids, without references. Of the 
many subsequent publications on hybrids, the following is one of the most 
extensive: Guétrot,—. Plantes hybrides de France. I et II (1925-1926)-V- 
VII (1929-1931). 318 p. illus., 8 pl., ports. 25 cm. Lille, Paris, Gap, 
1927-1931. (Author’s ideas on nomenclature of hybrids (personal epithets 
should end in io, others in o, but he followed different rules in part I/II), 
etc.; descriptions of numerous hybrids, old and new (numbered 1-69, 100- 
135 bis), in various genera; biographical notices of several botanists. Nos. 
V-VII consist mostly of a Monographie des hybrides de saxifrages dactylites 
dits dactyloides, by Dominique Luizet (1852-1930).)—See also Léveillé (Les 
hybrides de France), below. 
Cazin, F. J. Traité pratique et raisonné des plantes médicinales indigénes. 
2. ed. xiv, 1076 p. 24.5 cm. Paris, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1876, and Atlas. 40 
col. pl. 27 cm. (1st ed. 1850.) 
Account of native and cultivated medicinal plants, alphabetically arranged 
by vernacular names, with patois names, descriptions, properties and uses; 
list of plants, classified therapeutically; calendar for collecting material; no 
index of scientific names.—See also Ansberque, above, and additional refer- 
ences there given. 
Chevalier, Auguste. Les plantes de la flore de France en voie de disparition 
et leur protection. Bul. Hist. Nat. Appl. 1. ptie., 6: 40-52, 88-96. 1925. 
Annotated list of about 28 vascular plants extinct or apparently so in con- 
tinental France, list of other species that have become rare; causes of dis- 
appearance, methods of protection.—See also Le Brun, Pierre. Une enquéte 
sur la flore francaise. Monde des Plant. IV, 33 (195): 20, (196): 26-28, 
(197): 85-36. 19382; 34 (199): 3-4, (200): 11-12. 1933. (Annotated list of 
vascular plants that have disappeared or become rare in special localities or 
throughout France. Includes Réponses aux enquétes, by various botanists, 
le. p. 11-12. 1933. In Arnold Arboretum library.)—See also his Quelques 
espéces de la flore de France en voie de disparition. Cong. Internatl. Bot. 8 
(Paris 1945), Rapp. et Comm. 21/27: 161-164. [1954.] (Mention of various 
species of different localities.) 
Conte, E. Les plantes qui guérissent. Les plantes médicinales: caractéres 
botaniques; lieux et époques des récoltes; mode de culture; parties a utiliser, 
dose et maniére de les utiliser ... 220 p. illus., 12 col. pl. on 6. 17.5 cm. 
Paris, n.d. [194—?] (Collection Rustica.) 
Treatment of wild and cultivated medicinal vascular plants, alphabetically 
arranged by French names, with vernacular names, brief description, parts 
used, cultivation, properties, uses; indices, list of diseases with remedies.— 
See also Ansberque, above, and additional references there given. 
Cornevin, Charles. Des plantes vénéneuses et des empoisonnements qu’elles 
déterminent. xi, 524 p. 52 fig. 21.5 cm. Paris, 1887 (reissue, 1893). 
(Bibliothéque de l’enseignement agricole publiée sous la direction de M. A. 
Mintz.) (1st issue in Gray Herbarium library; reissue in U.S. Department 
of Agriculture library.) 
General considerations; systematic account of French poisonous plants, 
native or cultivated, with poisonous properties, symptoms, references, etc.— 
See also Ansberque, above, and additional references there given. 
Coste, Hippolyte. Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et 
des contrées limitrophes . . . Avec une introduction . . . par Ch. Flahault. 
3 v. (52, xxxvi, 416; 627; 807 p.). 453 + 4354 fig., map. 25 cm. Paris, 1901 
(1900)-06. (Reissued Paris, 1937.) 
General features of vegetation and soils, botanical regions and zones (by 
Flahault); keyed, descriptive flora of vascular plants (4354 species) with 
local and general range and figure of each species. The standard illustrated 
flora of France, modeled after Britton and Brown’s Illustrated flora of the 
northern United States. Infraspecific taxa are not mentioned; single authori- 
