224 MISC. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Smart, John, and Taylor, George, eds. Flora. Jn their Bibliography of 
key works for the identification of the British fauna and flora. 2. ed. p. 94— 
126. 21.5 em. London, 1953. (ist ed. 1942.) 
The sections on Pteridophyta (p. 111) and Spermatophyta (p. 111-125) 
include titles of principal general British floras and some foreign works, and 
(under Spermatophyta) references to taxonomic treatments of various genera 
arranged by families——See also Holden, above, and additional references 
there given. 
Sowerby, James, and Smith, J. E. English botany; or, coloured figures of 
British plants. Edited by J. T. Boswell Syme. The popular portion by Mrs. 
Lankester. The figures by J. Sowerby, J. de C. Sowerby, J. W. Salter, and 
John Edward Sowerby. Enlarged, re-arranged according to the natural 
orders, and entirely revised, with descriptions of all the species by the editor. 
12 v. 1922 col. pl. 26 cm. London, 1868-86. (Other issues with varying 
dates. 1st ed. 36 v. 1790-1814; Supplement ... 5 v. 1831-63.)—Supple- 
ment to the third ed. v. 1-4. Compiled by N. E. Brown. viii, 213, viii p. 
15 pl. (18 col.). 26 cm. London, New York, [1891]-92. 
Descriptive flora of vascular plants and Characeae, with notes on uses, 
popular beliefs, etc.; the standard illustrated work on British plants. The 
first edition had 2998 plates, including the supplement, and illustrated cel- 
lular as well as vascular plants.—See also Garry, F. N. A. Notes on the 
drawings for “English Botany.” Jour. Bot. v. 41-42, suppl. 276 p. 1903-04. 
(History of the work; list of the 1922 plates of the 3d ed., with references 
to plate numbers in Ist ed., date of drawings, and notes on habitat, charac- 
ters, etc., by the artists and others.)—Also Boulger, above, and additional 
references there given. 
Step, Edward. Wayside and woodland trees. A guide to the British 
sylva. Rev. by A. Keith Jackson ...and A. Bruce Jackson . . . xxxviii, 
186 p. illus., 175 pl. (24 col.). 17.5 em. London and New York, 1940. 
(1st ed. 1904.) 
Popular but accurate account of native and principal naturalized or widely 
cultivated trees and larger shrubs; ranges given only in very general terms. 
—See also Bean, above, and additional references there given. 
Tansley, A. G. The British islands and their vegetation. new [2.] ed. 
2 v. (xxxviii, 930 p.). 179 fig. (incl. maps), 162 pl. (418 phot.), front. 26 
cm. Cambridge, 1949. (1st ed. 1939.) 
Physical features, geology, climate, soils, rocks, biotic factors, history of 
vegetation, description of plant formations and associations, with chapter 
bibliographies. The 2d ed. is little changed from the first. A condensed, popu- 
larized version of the same material is given in his Britain’s green mantle, 
past, present, and future. xii, 294 p. 8 text fig., 142 fig. (phot.) on pls., 
front. 22 cm. London, 1949. Replaces Tansley, and others. Types of Brit- 
ish vegetation. 1911.—See also Godwin, above, and additional references 
there given. 
Trimen, Henry. Botanical bibliography of the British counties. Jour. Bot. 
12: 66—73, 108-112, 155-158, 178-183, 283-238. 1874. 
Partly annotated bibliography, arranged in the order of Watson’s Topog- 
raphical Botany of county and local floras, with notes on herbaria, etc. 
Covers England, Wales, and Scotland.—See also Druce (Local floras), above, 
and additional references there given. 
Turnbull, Robert. Index of British plants according to the London Cata- 
logue (eighth edition). Including the synonyms used by the principal 
authors, an alphabetical list of English names, also references to the illus- 
trations of Syme’s English Botany, and Bentham’s British Flora. 2 p. l1., 
98 p. 22 cm. London, 1889. (Gray Herbarium library.) 
Alphabetical list of botanical names in the works cited, with page or plate 
reference to each work (London Catalogue, ed. 8; English Botany, ed. 3; 
Fitch and Smith’s Illustrations of Bentham’s British Flora) ; list of English 
names, with botanical equivalents——See also Egerton-Warburton, above. 
Turrill, W. B. British plant life. xvii, 315 p. 11 fig. (incl. 9 maps), 72 
pl. (48 col.) on 36. 22.5 em. London, 1948. (The New naturalist series.) 
Geological history in reference to plants, statistics of flora, phytogeogra- 
phy, habitats, plant communities, variation, adaptation and heredity, changes 
