330 mIsc. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
of characteristic species; extensive bibliography including numerous floras 
and floristic papers.—See also the entry above and additional references 
there given. 
Arcangeli, Giovanni. Compendio della flora italiana, ossia manuale per la 
determinazione delle piante che trovansi selvatiche od inselvatichite nell’ 
Italia e nelle isole adiacenti. 2. ed. xix, 886 p. 21 cm. Torino, Roma, 
1894. (1st ed. 1882.) 
Descriptive flora of vascular plants (6567 taxa, including 4932 species), 
with keys to families and genera, local and extralimital range; table of alti- 
tudes of important localities. 
Ball, John. The distribution of plants on the south side of the Alps. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. II, Bot. 5: 119-226. 1896. 
Statistics; tabular list of spermatophytes, with distribution indicated at 
50 localities from Val Tinca and Col di Tenda to Gorizia-Indria and in 10 
other mountainous areas of Kurope. According to Furrer and Longa (Beih. 
Bot. Centralbl. 2 abt., 33: 9. 1915) the data in this work must be used with 
caution. 
Baroni, Eugenio. Guida botanica d’Italia ossia chiavi analitiche per de- 
terminare le piante spontanee che vivono principalmente nell’Italia media. 
xxiv, 574 p. 358 (“3860’) fig. 18.5 em. Rocca S. Casciano, 1907. (Gray 
Herbarium library.) 
Pocket manual of vascular plants (8015 i.e. 3017 species), in form of 
briefly annotated keys, with concise statement of range and vernacular 
names. Covers the regions of Emilia, Lazio, Marche, Toscana, and Umbria. 
The 2d and 3d eds. cover all of Italy—Guida botanica d’Italia ossia chiavi 
analitiche per determinare le piante spontanee che crescono nella penisola. 
3. ed. rived. e corr. da Sara Baroni Zanetti. xxxv, 708 p. 352 fig. 19 cm. 
Rocca San Casciano, 1955. (Pocket manual of vascular plants in form of 
briefly annotated keys, with concise statement of range and some vernacular 
names; includes very numerous varieties. The illustrations are from Fiori 
and Paoletti’s Iconographia.) 
Béguinot, Augusto. La botanica. 116 p. 17 cm. Roma, 1920. 
Sketch of development of botany in Italy in 19th century; bibliography 
(p. 45-116) of selected botanical publications, with list of Italian botanical 
periodicals.—See also his Botanica. 421 p. 21.5 cm. n. p., 1938. (Enciclo- 
pedia scientifica monografica italiana del ventesimo secolo. ser. II, no. 1.) 
(Short sketch of principal Italian botanists (1801-1870) and of the various 
Italian schools of botany (1871-1900), followed by a more detailed account 
of Italian researches (after 1901) in the different branches of morphology, 
physiology, ecology, pathology, genetics, floristics, phytogeography, tax- 
onomy, applied and historical botany; bibliography (p. 339-399) listing 
principal works of each author.)—Also Béguinot and Landi, Béguinot and 
others (Stato attuale), Pasquale, Rehder, Rikli, Saccardo (La botanica; 
Granologla della flora italiana), Sarfatti, and Societa botanica italiana, 
elow. 
Flora e vegetazione. Jn Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere 
ed arti (Treccani) 19: 729-736. illus., map. 31cm. Roma, 1933. 
Plant zones, plant formations, geological changes.—See also Adamovié, 
above, and additional references there given. 
and Landi, Maria. L’endemismo nelle minori isole italiane ed il 
suo significato biogeografico. Arch. Bot. (Forli) 6: 247-316. 1930; 7: 39- 
SO} er dS ail bs 
Discussion of geography, topography, geology, etc., of each group of 
islands, with references to botanical publications; critically annotated list of 
189 endemic vascular plants, including not only species restricted to the 
islands discussed but many others found also on the larger islands, the 
Balearic Islands, or the mainland of Italy. Covers the Ligurian Islands 
(Bergeggi, Gallinaria, Palmaria, Tinetto, and Tino); the smaller islands 
around Corsica (very little known; proceeding anti-clockwise around the 
island, beginning on the northwest side, Ile Rousse (Rossa), Pietra, Iles 
Sanguinaires (Mezzomare, etc.), Lavezzi, Cavallo, Piana, Cerbicali Islands, 
Gargalo, Giraglia, etc.); those around Sardinia (Arcipelago della Maddalena, 
including the islands Budelli, Caprera, Maddalena, Razzoli, San Stefano, 
