334 MISC. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
zione delle piante vasculari (1: i-c. 1908), an account of geology, climate, 
soils, plant associations, botanical divisions and geobotanical bibliography. 
Vol. 5 was Saccardo, P. A. Cronologia della flora italiana, here treated 
separately. A. Béguinot was joint author after Paoletti’s death (v. 2, pt. 
3 to end). For the pteridophytes, see also Fiori, Adriano. Filicinae, Equise- 
tinae, Lycopodinae. Jn Societa botanica italiana. Flora italica cryptogama. 
Pars V. Pteridophyta. p. i-v, 1-455, 575-601 (indices). 154 fig. 25.5 em. 
Firenze, 1948. (Detailed systematic treatment of ferns and fern allies (84 
species and 528 infraspecific forms) with keys, descriptions, synonymy, cita- 
tion of illustrations, vernacular names, uses, first Italian collections with 
dates, citation of exsiccatae, habitat, general range and detailed Italian 
range with citation of localities and collectors; bibliography (including both 
pteridophytic and general floristic works), list of herbaria, list of exsiccatae 
cited.) Fiori’s systematic treatment is followed by an Appendice: Giacomini, 
Valerio. Saggio fitogeografico sulle pteridofite d’Italia. l.c. p. 457-574. 
illus. (incl. maps). (Discussion of ecology, altitudinal distribution, position 
in the composition of the zonal groups and plant formations of Italy, 
phytogeography. ) 
and Paoletti, Giulio. Iconographia florae italicae, ossia flora 
italiana illustrata con 4400 figure d’assieme e 12973 di analisi rappresentanti 
tutte le specie di piante vascolari indigene inselvatichite e largamente col- 
tivate finora conosciute in Italia .. . 2. ed. aumentata a cura del A. Fiori. 
viii, 545 p. 38,878 ie. 4,445 fig. 27 cm. Sancasciano Val di Pesa, 1921. 
(1st ed. 1895-1904.) 
Contains 4445 small but excellent figures, illustrating each species and 
many varieties, with abbreviated statement of local range and growth zone; 
also list of vernacular names with botanical equivalents, and index to 
figures. The 3. ed. (viii, 549 p. 27 cm. Firenze, 1933; not seen) has 4,419 
figures and 13,020 analyses.—See also Perini, below. 
Flechia, Giovanni. Nomi locali d’ Italia derivati dal nome delle piante. 
Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino 15: 821-842. 1880. 
Classification of locality names derived from names of plants; alphabetical 
list of Latin names of plants (and allied terms) with the Italian locality 
names derived from them. 
Fraas, Carl. Synopsis plantarum florae classicae, oder: uebersichtliche 
darstellung der in den klassischen schriften der Griechen und Romer vorkom- 
menden pflanzen, nach autoptischer untersuchung im florengebiete entworfen 
und nach synonymen geordnet. xxxix, 320 p. 21 cm. Miinchen, 1845. (2. 
ausg., Berlin, 1870, essentially unchanged.) 
Sketch of botanical knowledge among the early Greeks, author’s botanical 
explorations in Greece, plant regions, etc.; list of vascular and a few cellular 
plants, systematically arranged, with citation of names from Greek and Latin 
authors and modern Greek names, annotated as to identity, occurrence, etc., 
with indices. The 2. ausgabe, Berlin, 1870 (Arnold Arboretum library), differs 
only in the slightly altered title-page and the omission of 2 leaves of dedica- 
tion.—See also Bubani, above, and additional references there given. 
Giacomini, Valerio, and Fenaroli, Luigi. La vegetazione. 272 p. 195 fig. 
(incl. maps), 118 pl. (on 59; pt. col.; incl. 459 fig.), map (front.) 28 cm. 
Milano, 1958. (Conosci I’Italia v. 2.) 
Botanical regions and zones, plant formations, vegetation of different 
habitats, etc., of the alpine region, the plain of the Po, Insubria and the 
Kuganean Hills, and the Apennine and Mediterranean region; origin of 
Italian flora; bibliography of floras and works on vegetation. The authors’ 
names are given only in the introduction.—See also Adamovi¢, above, and 
additional references there given. 
Haussmann, Giovanni, and Scurti, Iole. Le piante infestanti. xiv, 305 p. 
140 pl. (part. col.). 24em. Bologna, 1953. 
Generalities on control, etc.; descriptive account of weedy plants, with 
very numerous patois names and their localities, but not details of control 
under the individual species. The illustrations include 40 plates of seedlings 
and seeds.—See also Béguinot and Mazza, above, and additional references 
there given. 
