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Brief history of simpling; list of medicinal plants, alphabetically arranged 
by vernacular names, with popular uses in medicine, etc.; list of diseases, 
with remedies; no index of scientific names.—See also Barton, above, and 
additional references there given. 
Fisher, Robert. The English names of our commonest wild flowers. 2 v. 
(xi, 249; viii, 344 p.). 22cm. Arbroath, 1932-34. 
Pt. 1: alphabetical list of vernacular names of the species of plants that 
are found in all of the 112 comital districts of England, Scotland, and Wales, 
with explanation of derivation and meaning and scientific equivalents; all the 
vernacular names of each species collected under the principal one. Pt. 2: 
similar list of names of common but less widely distributed species.—See also 
Britten and Holland, above, and additional references there given. 
Forsyth, A. A. British poisonous plants. Bul. Min. Agr. and Fish. 
[Great Britain] 161. vi, 116 p. 10 pl. (2 col.) (on 5). 1954. 
General considerations; annotated list of wild poisonous plants, with 
account of symptoms and remedies, and references; annotated list of sus- 
pected plants, annotated tabular list of plants that affect milk.—See also 
Ellis, above, and C. Johnson and Pratt (The poisonous ... plants), below. 
Gilbert-Carter, Humphrey. Glossary of the British flora... with a preface 
by Charles E. Raven, 2. ed. rev. and enl. xxiv, 88 p. 20 cm. Cambridge, 
1955. (1st ed. 1950.) 
Short bibliography; alphabetical list of generic names and specific epithets 
of British vascular plants, with derivation and meaning, often with notes 
on pronunciation and name of Greek or Latin classical author who first used 
the name.—See also Harvey-Gibson and Macleod, below. 
Godwin, Harry. The history of the British flora. A factual basis for 
phytogeography. viii, 384 p. 119 fig., 26 pl. (on 18), tab. 28.5 cm. Cam- 
bridge, 1956. 
Includes (p. 69-292) list of vascular plants found in Quaternary deposits, 
with citation of records and discussion; bibliography.—See also Matthews 
(2), Reid, Tansley, and Turrill, below. 
Grigson, Geoffrey. The Englishman’s flora. Illustrated with woodcuts 
from sixteenth-century herbals. 478 p. 44 fig., front. 29 cm. London, 1955. 
Discussion of sources, etc.; account of vernacular names, uses, popular 
beliefs, etc., with frequent quotations from literature, of all the flowering 
plants “with any considerable tale of names” and of many without such; 
bibliography, indices——See also Britten and Holland and Edlin, above, and 
additional references there given. 
Hadfield, Miles. British trees; a guide for everyman. xxv, 458 p. incl. 150 
fig. 21.5 cm. London, 1957. 
Systematic descriptive treatment of most of the wild and cultivated trees 
of England, Scotland, and Wales, including cultivated varieties, with details 
of introduction, cultivation, etc.—See also Bean, above, and additional refer- 
ences there given. 
Harvey-Gibson, R. J. British plant names and their derivation. 3 p. L., 
50 p. 19 cm. London, 1923. 
List of botanical names of genera, species, and families of British vascular 
plants, with derivation and meaning; alphabetical list of abbreviations of 
botanical authors’ names, with full form of the surname but not the given 
ane and partial dates—See also Gilbert-Carter, above, and Macleod, 
elow. 
Hayward, W. R. Botanist’s pocket-book, containing the chief characteris- 
tics of British plants; with botanical name, common name, soil or situation, 
colour, growth, and time of flowering of every plant, arranged under its own 
order. 19. ed., rev. by G. C. Druce. xlv, 310 p. 16.5 cm. London, 1980. 
(Gray Herbarium library.) (1st ed. 1872.) 
Tabular systematic list of vascular plants and Characeae, with habitat, 
color, habit, etc., on verso of pages, and corresponding synoptical key to 
species on the opposite recto. Ranges are not given except in special cases. 
Henslow, George. The uses of British plants traced from antiquity to the 
present day, together with the derivations of their names. vi, 184 p. 288 
fig. 18.5 cm. London, 1905. 
