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Descriptive account of native and cultivated medicinal plants, with vernacu- 
lar names and uses, grouped by uses.—See also Cazzuola, above, and addi- 
tional references there given. 
Cesati, Vincenzo, Passerini, Giovanni, and Gibelli, Giuseppe. Compendio 
della flora italiana. 906, lxxii p. and atlas of 137 (ie. 188) pl. 27 cm. 
Milano, [1868]-1902. (Gray Herbarium library.) 
Flora of vascular plants in form of annotated keys, with full descriptions 
of families and genera. For dates of issue see notices of publication in 
Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. v. 1-19, 1869-87, and Friedlander’s Naturae novitates, 
1868-1902; also Chiovenda, Flora delle Alpi Lepontine occidentali 1: 46-48. 
1904, and Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. 31: 284-285. 1924. Text apparently com- 
pleted 1886; there is also an issue dated 1884 (Arnold Arboretum library). 
Chiappini, Vincenzo. Flora alpina officinale. 221 p. 53 fig., 4 col. pl. 20 
em. Rovereto, 1954. 
Descriptive account of all the plants of pharmaceutical value growing on 
the Italian Alps, alphabetically arranged by vernacular names, with proper- 
ties, etc.; therapeutic index, short bibliography, no index of scientific names. 
—See also Cazzuola, above, and additional references there given. 
Ciferri, Raffaele, and Giacomini, Valerio. Nomenclator florae italicae seu 
plantae vasculares in Italia sponte nascentes, advenae, aut saepius cultae. 
Pars 1-2 (1). xii, 362 p. 21.5 cm. Ticini, 1950-54. 
Name list of species, subspecies. and hybrids of native, adventive, and 
cultivated spermatophytes of Italy (not including those grown only in 
greenhouses), with indication by symbols of the cultivated and adventive 
species, etc., and citation of name used in Fiori, Nuova fiora analitica, when 
it differs from that used in this work. The parts so far published cover 
gymnosperms, monocotyledons, and lower dicotyledons. 
Dierbach, J. H. Flora mythologica oder pflanzenkunde in bezug auf 
mythologie und symbolik der Griechen und Romer. Ein beitrag zur altesten 
geschichte der botanik, agricultur und medicin [sic]. x, 218 p. 20.5 cm. 
Frankfurt am Maine, 1833. (Harvard College library.) 
Discussion of phenomena of life and growth of plants in relation to the 
gods; trees and shrubs connected with or sacred to different gods; also edible 
and ornamental, medicinal and poisonous plants.—See also Bubani, above, 
and additional references there given. 
Fenaroli, Luigi. Flora delle Alpi. Vegetazione e flora delle Alpi e degli 
altri monti d’Italia. xiv, 369 p. 262 fig., 40 pl. (on 20), 44 col. pl., maps 
(on lining papers). 23 em. Milano, 1955. 
Short bibliography, climate, edaphic and biotic factors, altitudinal suc- 
cessions, keyed list of plant formations; annotated flora of vascular plants 
in form of keys, with brief notes on uses. Covers mountains of Italy includ- 
ing Sardinia and Sicily, also Corsica, mainly above 2000 meters elevation. 
Replaces his Flora delle Alpi e degli altri monti d’Italia. 3. ed. complete- 
mente rifatta ed in sostituzione de la “Flora delle Alpi illustrata” del Prof. 
O. Penzig. xi, 302 p. 141 fig., 30 col. pl. 21.5 em. Milano, 1982. (1st ed. 
1902, Flora delle Alpi illustrata, by O. Penzig.) 
Fiori, Adriano. Nuova flora analitica d’Italia contenente la descrizione 
delle piante vascolari indigene inselvatichite e largamente coltivate in 
Italia. 2 v. (vii, 944; 1120 p.). 22 fig. 25.5 em. Firenze, 1923-29. 
Flora of vascular plants (3877 species, including the commonly cultivated 
ones) in form of fairly ample keys, with local range (usually briefly stated), 
extralimital range, some synonymy, and references to the Iconographia; sum- 
mary of properties and uses at head of each family. The species are taken 
in a broad sense; varieties are given rather fully, but formae are omitted, 
and hybrids and critical species are merely listed. This is the standard 
modern flora of Italy. Replaces as a working manual Fiori, A., Paoletti, 
Giulio, and Béguinot, Augusto. Flora analitica d’Italia, ossia descrizione 
delle piante vascolari indigene inselvatichite e largamente coltivate in Italia 
disposte per quadri analitici. 5 v. (v. 4 in 2 pts.). illus. 27cm. Padova, 
1896-1909. This contained some material not in the Nuova flora, namely, 
descriptions of the genera and of numerous forms and hybrids (with a total 
of 13,897 taxa, including 3780 native and 357 introduced species), and 
Fiori’s Prodromo di una geografia botanica dell’Italia riguadante la distribu- 
