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Colored plates of 60 common weeds with extensive lists of vernacular 
names and brief descriptions. The illustrations in nearly all cases include 
the seedlings. Issued by Shell Chemical Company. Plates by Doris C, R. 
Thompson, foreword signed by J. L. Hunt.—See also Brenchley, Dunn, and 
Morse below. 
Babington, C. C. Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants 
and ferns arranged according to the natural orders. . . . 10th ed. with 
amended nomenclature and an appendix edited by A. J. Wilmott. .. . liv, 
612 p. 18.5cm. London, 1922. (1st ed. 1843.) 
Keys to and synopsis of families; briefly descriptive flora of vascular 
plants and Characeae, with extremely generalized statement of range and 
partial keys; (appendix) synopsis of British Rubi fruticosi, additional species 
and notes. 
Barton, B. H., and Castle, Thomas. The British flora medica; a history of 
the medicinal plants of Great Britain ... A new ed., rev., condensed, and 
partly rewritten, by John R. Jackson. xxii, 447 p. 48 col. pl. 23 cm. Lon- 
don, 1877. (1st ed. 1836-38.) 
Description, distribution, properties and uses of 193 vascular plants, with 
colored figure of each; arranged alphabetically by English names. For other 
works on medicinal plants, see Culpeper, Ellis, and Fernie, below; for gen- 
eral works on useful (including medicinal) plants, see Edlin, below, and addi- 
tional works there cited; for works on poisonous plants see Forsyth, below, 
and additional works there cited. 
Bean, W. J. Trees and shrubs hardy in the British Isles. 7. ed. 3 Vv. 
(xviii, 7033.x, 636; ‘vii, 664°p.)- “illus.; 133 pl... (40, 52°40) one 22:5 Ent 
London, 1950-51. (1st ed. 1914.) 
Bibliography, account of some British and foreign collectors and nursery- 
men, chapters on propagation and culture, etc.; descriptive account of hardy 
trees and shrubs, alphabetically arranged by scientific names, with native 
habitat, date of introduction, notes on cultivation, horticultural varieties, etc. 
—See also Chittenden, Elwes, Hadfield, Kirk, Makins, and Step, below. 
Bentham, George. Handbook of the British flora, a description of the 
flowering plants and ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in the British Isles. 
For the use of beginners and amateurs ... rev. by Sir J. D. Hooker. 7th ed. 
rev. by A. B. Rendle. Ilxi, 606 p. 18.5 cm. London, 1924. (Several reissues, 
the last in 1945. ist ed. 1858.) 
Outline of descriptive botany, etc., key to families; annotated descriptive 
flora of vascular plants. Noteworthy for its very conservative view of species. 
There is a previous 7th edition (1900), edited by J. D. Hooker.—Accom- 
panied by Fitch, W. H., Smith, W. G., and others. Illustrations of the British 
flora ... 5. ed. rev. xxvii, 338 p. (including 1315 figures on 328 pages). 
18.5 cm. London, 1924. (Several reissues, the last in 1944. 1st ed. 1880.) 
(Excellent small figure of each species, with dissections.)—See also Butcher, 
R. W., and Strudwick, F. E. Further illustrations of British plants. iv, 
476 p. 485 fig. 18.5 cm. Ashford, 1930. (Reissued 1944.) (Good drawings 
of 485 species supplementary to Fitch’s “Illustrations,” with brief descrip- 
tive text.) 
Bonnier, Gaston. British flora. Translated and adapted from the French 
by Ethel Mellor. 2 p. 1., xxxiv, 315 p. illus., map. 19 em. London and 
Toronto, 1925. 
Very briefly annotated pocket manual of vascular plants in form of keys, 
with glossary, brief account of botanical regions, etc.; brief notes on eco- 
nomic properties given in index. Adapted from Bonnier’s La flore du nord de 
la France et de la Belgique, ed. 16. 
Botanical Society of the British Isles. British flowering plants and modern 
systematic methods. Being the report of the Conference on the study of 
critical British groups arranged in April 1948, by the Botanical Society... 
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1949. 
Papers by various authors on cytology, experimental studies, ecology, and 
intraspecific variation in their application to the classification of critical 
groups and on the taxonomic situation in several such groups (water butter- 
cups, Viola riviniana, Rosa, Rubus, Valeriana officinalis, Galium and Jun- 
