392 misc. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Riccobono, Antonio. Le piante della flora siciliana pitt acconce all’orna- 
mento dei giardini. 2v. 17cm. 1906-25. 
Key to species, list of scientific and vernacular names; descriptive account 
of plants considered suitable for gardens. (Not seen; title and annotation 
supplied by V. Camarrone.) 
Tornabene, Francesco. Flora sicula viva et exsiccata, seu collectio plan- 
tarum in Sicilia sponte nascentium hucusque cognitarum juxta methodum 
naturalem vegetabilium exposita in horto botanico Regiae universitatis 
studiorum Catinae. 687 p. 4pl. 27cm. Catinae. 1887. 
History, climate, topography, phytogeography, botanical investigations, 
references, fossil flora, geology, discussion of doubtfully native species; an- 
notated list of vascular plants, Characeae, and lichens (2,488 species, of 
which 2,412 are vascular), with localities; statistics. 
Quadro storico della botanica in Sicilia che serve di prolusione 
all’anno scolastico 1846 e 1847 nella Regia universita degli studi in Catania. 
70 p. 20 cm. Catania, 1847. (Arnold Arboretum library.) 
Chronological account of botanists and botanical work in Sicily from the 
earliest times, with titles and references. 
Local 
Albo, Giacomo. La flora dei Monti Madonie. Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. ns., 
12: 217-260. 1905. 
Annotated list of cellular and vascular plants (about 530 vascular plants). 
The Monti Madonie (Madonian Mountains) make up the western extremity 
of the Nebrodes. (Prov. Palermo.)—See also Strobl, Flora der Nebroden, 
below. 
La flora di Donna Lucata. Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. n.s., 23: 327-374, 
541-558. 1 fig. (map). 1916; 24: 5-16. pl.1-5. 1917. 
General features of flora, topography, geology, climate, bibliography, etc.; 
annotated list of vascular plants (548 species). (Prov. Ragusa.) 
- L’isola di Capo Passaro e la sua vegetazione. Naturalista Siciliano 
23 (n.s., 3): 179-201. 6 fig. 1919. 
Topography, geology, soils, general features of flora (with especial refer- 
ence to dwarfed and reduced forms), bibliography; annotated list of angio- 
sperms (166 species). (Small island only 300 meters off the tip of Capo 
Passaro, in Prov. Siracusa.) 
La vita delle piante vascolari nella Sicilia meridionale-orientale. 
Pt. II. Flora. vi, 308 p. 24.5cem. Ragusa, 1919. 
Annotated list of 1432 vascular plants, with local range and Sicilian ver- 
nacular names. (Prov. Catania, Ragusa, and Siracusa.) (Not seen; title and 
annotation supplied by F. Sappa.) 
Assenza, Vincenzo. Dizionario botanico dialettale-italiano-scientifico della 
maggior parte delle piante spontanee coltivate ed ornamentali della Contea 
di Modica. 223 p. 25 em. Modica, 1923. (1st ed., Dizionarietto vernacolo- 
italiano ed italiano-vernacolo-botanico della maggior parte delle piante 
spontanee coltivate ed ornamentali che crescono nelle campagne di Modica 
e di Scicli (Siracusa), 1894.) 
Alphabetical lists of patois names, Italian names, and scientific names, 
the last with collected common names and notes on the distinctive characters 
of each plant but no notes on uses. (Prov. Ragusa.) (Not seen; title and 
annotation supplied by V. Camarrone.) 
Bianca, Giuseppe. Flora dei dintorni di Avola. Atti Accad. Gioenia Sci. 
Nat. Catania 15: 295-348. 1839; 19: 51-1382. 1842; 20: 259-322. 1848 
[1844 ?]; II, 1: 251-363. 1844 [1845 ?]; 2: 81-161. 1845; 3: 33-107, 255-345. 
1846 [-1847?]; 6: 217-378. 1850 [18517]; 8: 21-110. 1853; 13: 157-252. 
1857; 14: 23-86. 1859. 
Topography, climate, general features of flora; briefly annotated descriptive 
flora of angiosperms, on the Linnaean system, with Italian, French, and 
Sicilian vernacular names; incomplete (Monandria-Diadelphia; 638 species). 
(Prov. Siracusa.) 
Borg, John. Descriptive flora of the Maltese Islands including the ferns 
and flowering plants. 846 p. 22.5cm. Malta, 1927. 
