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relation to glaciation, introduced species and weeds, flora of various habitats, 
phytogeography, woodlands, alpine plants.)—Also Godwin, above, and addi- 
tional references there given. 
Origin and distribution of the British flora. 173 p. 19 cm. Lon- 
don, 1955. (Hutchinson’s university library. Biological sciences.) 
General considerations, Pleistocene history, forest development, changes in 
plant ranges, composition of flora, types of distribution, geographical ele- 
ments with lists of species——See also Godwin, above, and additional refer- 
ences there given. 
Melderis, Alexander, and Bangerter, E. B. A handbook of British flower- 
ing plants. 360 p. illus., 24 col. pl. 22 cm. London and Melbourne, 1955. 
Semipopular, annotated, descriptive flora of spermatophytes, with notes on 
biology, properties, uses, vernacular names, ete. Not a complete flora, and 
authorities for scientific names not given. 
Miller, William. A dictionary of English plant names applied in England 
and among English-speaking people to cultivated and wild plants, trees, and 
shrubs. viii, 264 p. 238 em. London, 1884. 
Alphabetical lists of vernacular names with botanical equivalents, and of 
botanical names with vernacular equivalents.—See also Britten and Holland, 
above, and additional references there given. 
Morse, Richard, and Palmer, Raymond. British weeds, their identification 
and control. A practical handbook... 207 p. 32 fig., 7 ie. 8 pl. 22 cm. 
London, 1925. 
General considerations, key; brief account of British weeds, grouped by 
habitat and alphabetically arranged by vernacular names, with directions 
for control, notes on uses or poisonous properties; lists of economically use- 
ful weeds, poisonous weeds, host plants for insect or fungous pests; list of 
botanical names, the families arranged alphabetically; indices.—See also 
Anonymous, above, and additional references there given. 
Moss, C. E. The Cambridge British flora. v. 2-3 (in 4 v. incl. 2 v. of 
plates). 121 fig. (maps), 397 pl., port. 88 cm. Cambridge, 1914~20. 
Annotated descriptive flora of vascular plants, with special attention to 
varieties and hybrid forms; range of each species shown on map, and each 
illustrated by one or more plates (by E. W. Hunnybun), the details of which, 
at least in the case of the smaller plants, are frequently imperfectly ob- 
served. Incomplete: Salicaceae-Fumariaceae (Engler-Prantl system). No 
more published. 
Polunin, Nicholas. British floras ancient and modern. Rhodora 55: 209- 
224 A953, 
Running account of general floras of the British Isles, with especial con- 
sideration of that by Clapham (1952).—See also Druce (Local floras), above, 
and additional references there given. 
Pratt, Anne. The flowering plants, grasses, sedges and ferns of Great 
Britain and their allies the club mosses, horsetails, ete. New ed. rev. by 
Edward Step ...4v. 4 plain pl. (“A-D’), 319 col. pl. 25 em. London 
and New York, 1899-1900. (1st ed. 1855, with title The flowering plants 
and ferns of Great Britain.) 
Account of native vascular plants, with brief descriptions, range, vernacu- 
lar names, uses, etc.; semipopular, but accurate as far as it goes. The 
colored plates illustrate about 1500 species. There are various editions and 
reissues; the first issue of Step’s revision was apparently in 1891.—See also 
Boulger, above, and additional references there given. 
The poisonous, noxious, and suspected plants of our fields and 
woods. xii, 208 p. col. pls. 16 ecm. London [1857]. 
Popular account of native and naturalized poisonous plants.—See also 
Forsyth, above, and additional references there given. 
Prime, C. T., and Deacock, R. J. The shorter British flora. 2. ed. repr. 
with minor corrections. xl, 376 p. 232 fig. 19 em. London, 1957. (1st ed. 
1948.) 
Popular flora, including about 720 of the commoner species; cited here for 
ae notes on biology, uses, habitats, etc., such as are not found in the ordinary 
ora. 
