264 misc. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
SOMERSETSHIRE 
See also Devonshire (Martin and Fraser, Flora of Devon); also Gloucester (White, The 
flora of Bristol). ; 
Vice-county 5, South Somerset; vice-county 6, North Somerset. 
General 
Macmillan, A. S. Popular names of flowers, fruits, etc., as used in the 
county of Somerset and the adjacent parts of Devon, Dorset and Wilts. . 
Reprinted from the Somerset County Herald. 1 p.l., 297 p. 19 cm. Yeovil, 
1922. (Kew library.) ; 
Alphabetical list of vernacular names, with scientific names, notes on uses, 
popular beliefs, ete. 
Murray, R. P. The flora of Somerset. Ixi, 437 p. map, front. 23 cm. 
Taunton, 1896. (Originally published as supplement to Proc. Somersetsh. 
Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Soc. v. 39-42. 1893-96, the introduction being the 
last part published.) 
Topography, climate, bibliography, geology, botanical districts, table show- 
ing local distribution; annotated list of vascular plants and Characeae (1079 
species, of which 962 are native), with localities. — See also Marshall, E. S. 
A supplement to the flora of Somerset. iv, 242 p. 238 cm. Taunton, 1914. 
(Extensive list of additions and corrections. Published as supplement to 
Proc. Somersetsh. Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Soc. v. 59.) — Also his Notes on 
Somerset plants for 1914 [-18]. Jour. Bot. 53: 122-132. 1915; 54: 97-105. 
1916; 55: 179-191. 1917; 56: 186-148. 1918; 57: 147-154, 175-181. 1919. 
(Title varies.) — Also annual lists of new records and new publications 
under the heading “The botanical section” in Proc. Somersetsh. Archaeol. and 
Nat. Hist. Soc. v. 60-88, 91-97. 1915-19438, 1946-1953. — Also Miller, W. D. 
A note on extinct and rare species of the county of Somerset. Rpt. Bot. Soc. 
and Exch. Club Brit. Isles 10 (1932): 268-276. 1933. 
Watson, Walter. The average times of first flowering for Somerset plants. 
Proc. Somersetsh. Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Soc. 93: 108-128. 1949. 
Tabular systematic list of spermatophytes showing average date of first 
flowering, months in which each species flowers, and month of optimum 
flowering. 
Local 
Babington, C. C. Flora bathoniensis: or, a catalogue of the plants indigen- 
ous to the vicinity of Bath. vi, 62 p. map. 18cm. Bath, 1834. — Supple- 
ment... lxili-105 p. map. 18 cm. [Bath, 1839.] (Gray Herbarium library.) 
Briefly annotated list of vascular plants and Characeae; includes some 
records from adjoining Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. — See also Jenyns, 
Leonard. On the Bath flora. Proc. Bath. Nat. Hist. and Antiq. Field Club 1 
(1865-66): 23-60. 1869 (1867?) (Includes (p. 54-60) lists of extinct spe- 
cies and of additions to Babington’s Flora.) — Also Wheatcroft, W. G. The 
botany of the Bath district. Jn Morris, J. W., ed. Handbook to Bath pre- 
pared on the occasion of the visit of the British Association, 1888. p. 241-254. 
18 ecm. [1888]. (Botanical explorations and publications, etc.; unannotated 
list of rarer vascular plants; list of additions since Babington’s Flora, with 
localities; annotated list of extinct or erroneously recorded species; the two 
last lists taken from Jenyns.) 
St. Brody, Gustavus. The flora of Weston, and its immediate neighbour- 
hood, including the habitats of Brean-Down, Uphill, Hutton Wood, Worle or 
Weston Hill, Sand-Point, and Birnbeck Island: with critical remarks on our 
doubtful species, and botanical memoranda of Steep Holm, Shapwick Moor, 
and Cheddar Cliffs . .. viii, 174 p. 19 cm. Weston-super-Mare, 1856. 
(Lloyd Library.) 
Briefly descriptive flora of spermatophytes, the species arranged according 
to months in which they flower; annotated list of ferns. The work contains 
many errors, according to Murray. 
Skene, Macgregor. Botany. In A survey of Steep Holm. Proc. Bristol 
Nat. Soc. IV, 8: 452-459. 1939. 
Botanical explorations; list of known vascular plants (254 species and 
varieties), bryophytes, lichens, and fungi, with references to first records; 
