170 isc. PUBLICATION 797, U. §. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
1940. (Popular work, containing the French names of numerous plants 
(including some new to the Department) grouped by habitat, without scien- 
tific names.) 
Léon, Jules. Flore landaise et médecine par les plantes vulgaires. xxiii, 
269 p. 19.5 cm. Paris, 1876. 
Annotated list of vascular plants, with diagnostic characters; supplemen- 
tary chapters on useful and medicinal plants. 
Local 
Ducomet, Vital. La botanique populaire dans l’Albret. Essai linguistique. 
Bul. Acad. Internatl. Géog. Bot. 12: 127-182, 280-304, 307-310. 1908. 
Annotated alphabetical list of patois names of about 300 species, with 
explanation of meaning. The former duchy of Albret, according to the author, 
is now included within the department of Gers, Gironde, Landes, and Lot- 
et-Garonne. 
LANGUEDOC 
See also France, Partial (Azais); Provence (Capoduro); Spain, Catalufa (Conill). 
The region and former province of Languedoc consists of Ardéche, Aude, Gard, Hérault, 
Lozére, Tarn, and part of Haute-Garonne and Haute-Loire. Only a single work referring to 
the region as a whole is placed here. See also Azais, under Partial. 
Belleval, Charles de. Nomenclateur botanique languedocien. Annuaire Soc. 
Agr. Hérault 1840: 67-113. 1840. (Gray Herbarium library.) 
Annotated alphabetical list of vernacular names, with botanical equivalents. 
LIMOUSIN 
The region and former province of Limousin includes the department of Corréze and part 
of Haute-Vienne, but Le Gendre in his Catalogue covers also Creuse and a small part of adja- 
cent Charente and Dordogne. 
Le Gendre, Charles. Catalogue des plantes du Limousin. Ouvrage edité 
par la Sociéte botanique et d’études scientifiques du Limousin. 2 v. (1 p.1., 
312 p.; 1 p. 1., 410 p.). 20 fig. (maps), port. 25.5 cm. Limousin, 1914-1922. 
(Library of Muséum national @histoire naturelle, Paris.) (Originally pub- 
lished as supplement to La revue scientifique du Limousin, 1913-22.) 
Geography, geology, etc.; annotated list of vascular plants (1570 native 
species) with rather detailed localities and notes on uses. Covers the de- 
partments of Corréze, Creuse, and Haute-Vienne, and the arrondissements of 
Confolens (Charente) and Nontron (Dordogne).—See also his Supplément au 
Catalogue ... Ouvrage edité [etc.]. 2 p.1., 96 p. 25.5 cm. Limoges, 1926 
[1925-26]. (Contains a general list of additions and corrections (68 p.), and 
another list of species collected principally at Donzenac (Corréze) by abbé 
Laubie. In library of Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris. Originally 
published in La revue scientifique du Limousin, no. 328-334, 1925-26; this 
not seen.) 
Nussac, Louis de. Botanique. Jn his Essai de bibliographie limousine des 
sciences naturelles. Revue Scient. Limousin 7: 344-850. 1906. (University 
of Michigan library.) 
Unannotated list of botanical publications. An explanation of the abbrevia- 
tions used for names of serials is given on p. 331. 
LOIR-ET-CHER 
See also Loire-Inférieure (Nehou). 
General 
Franchet, Adrien. Flore de Loir-et-Cher, comprenant la description, les 
tableaux synoptiques et la distribution géographique des plantes vasculaires 
{ui croissent spontanément ou qui sont généralement cultivées dans le Perche, 
la Beauce et la Sologne ... Ixxvili, 15, 792 p. 22 cm. Blois, 1885. 
Biographical sketches of local botanists, bibliography, plant distribution 
glossary; annotated descriptive flora of 1289 vascular plants and Characeae 
with keys, localities, and extralimital distribution 
