228 MISC. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
BEDFORDSHIRE 
See also Great Britain, General (Dony, Additions and emendations ... for v. c. 80 (Bed- 
fordshire), under Druce, The comital flora of the British Isles). 
Vice-county 380. 
General 
Dony, J. G. Flora of Bedfordshire. 532 p. 22 fig. (maps), 24 pl. (i.e. 
24 fig. on 16 pl. (on 8)), front., map. 22cm. Luton, 1953. 
Botanical explorations (including biographical data), geography, topogra- 
phy, climate, geology, soils, natural regions, botanical districts, bibliography, 
list of herbaria; annotated list of Charophyta, Bryophyta (by other authors), 
and vascular plants with detailed localities; list of casual plants and garden 
escapes, list of fungi (by D. A. Reid), index of botanists, gazetteer. Replaces 
Abbot, Charles. Flora bedfordiensis, comprehending such plants as grow 
wild in Bedford, arranged according to the system of Linnaeus, with occa- 
sional remarks. xii, 351 p. 6 col. pl. 23 cm. Bedford, 1798. (Bibliogra- 
phy; annotated flora of 1225 vascular and cellular plants, on the Linnaean 
system, with brief diagnoses but essentially without localities.) Also replaces 
Saunders, James. The field flowers of Bedfordshire. vi, 91 p. 21 cm. 
London and Luton, 1911. (Botanical explorations; annotated list of vascular 
plants (over 900 species) and Characeae. Although referred to in the preface 
as a second edition, the work was here first separately published; the list 
appeared in its original form in the “Bedfordshire Advertiser and Luton 
Times” in 1898 (not seen).) 
Local 
Davis, Frederick. Botany of the neighborhood of Luton. Jn his Luton, 
past and present: its history and antiquities. 2 ed. p. 123-130. 28 cm. 
Luton, 1874. (Harvard College lbrary.) (1st ed. in his The history of 
Luton ... 1855.) 
List of spermatophytes, with localities for scarcer species. 
Little, J. E. The Ivel district of Bedfordshire. Rpt. Bot. Soc. and Exch. 
Club Brit. Isles 11 (1935): 50-67. 1936. 
Geography, geology, moors and marshes, changes in vegetation, place 
names derived from plants, changes in woodland, botanical explorations, 
list of new records, etc.; chronological bibliography. 
BERKSHIRE 
See also Surrey (Monckton, The flora of the Bagshot district; Whale, British wild flowers 
. . growing in and near Egham). 
Vice-county 22. 
General 
Druce, G. C. The flora of Berkshire, being a topographical and historical 
account of the flowering plants and ferns found in the county, with short 
biographical notices of the botanists who have contributed to Berkshire 
botany during the last three centuries. cxcix, 644 p. map (in pocket). 20 
em. Oxford, 1897 [1898]. 
Topography, climate, geology, general features of flora, botanical districts, 
history of botanical investigations, bibliography; annotated list of vascular 
plants and Characeae (1,208 species, of which 893 are native), with localities. 
The additions of 1918 bring the total to 1,363 species (942 native), with over 
500 varieties and 80 hybrids. According to review in Jour. Bot. 36: 104. 
1898, the work, although dated 1897, was not issued until 1898.—See also 
his Additions to the Berkshire flora. Rpt. Bot. Soc. and Exch. Club Brit. 
Isles 5 (1917): 443-480. 1918. (Also in Proc. and Rpt. Ashmolean Nat. 
Hist. Soc. Oxfordshire 1918: 21-58. 1919. Not seen.)—Also Brenan, 
J. P. M. Notes on the flora of Oxfordshire and Berkshire. l.c. 12 (1943- 
44): 781-802. 1946. (Extensive list.)—Also his Records additional to the 
floras of Oxfordshire and Berkshire. l.c. 13 (1946-47): 227-230. 1948. 
Local 
Ashbee, C. R., ed. Botanical list. For 1879. Flora wellingtonensis. 
Ann. Rpt. Wellington Col. Nat. Hist. Soc. 10: 32-57. map. 1880. 
