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The cantons are listed alphabetically under their names as written in the language spoken 
predominantly in each. The entirely or chiefly French-speaking cantons (constituting la Suisse 
romande) are Fribourg, Genéve, Neuchatel, Valais and Vaud; Ticino is Italian; Bern is 
largely German, the Jura French-speaking; Graubiinden is half German, half Romansch, with 
two southern valleys Italian; the remaining cantons are German-speaking. 
Includes some partial works relating to the Alps, the Jura, French and German Switzer- 
land, ete. Those relating to the Urkantone and the Waldstatte are given under Schwyz. 
The general titles here given may be grouped as follows: Floras or manuals: Bennett, 
Binz, Bouvier (Alps), Friche-Joset (Jura), Gaudin, Godet (Jura), Gremli, Hegi, Schinz. 
Catalogs: Briigger (hybrids), Bruhin (plants of Gesner), Christ (alpine), Heer (alpine), 
Jerosch (alpine), Rhiner, Thurmann (Jura). Jconographies: Deutscher und Oesterreichischer 
Alpenverein (alpine), Hegetschweiler (Sammlung), (Hegi), Marret, Seboth (alpine), Thom- 
men. Bibliographies: Bruhin (Uebersicht), Ed. Fischer, Rehder, Schweizerische Botanische 
Gesellschaft (Referate), Schweizerische Landesbibliotek. Vernacular names: Brandstetter 
(trees, toponymy), Coaz (trees), Correvon (medicinal), Dalla Torre (alpine), Durheim, Em- 
peyta (Romand), (Hegi), H. Jaccard (toponymy), Kohler (Germanic), Oecettli (toponymy), 
Savoy (Romand). Trees or woody plants in general: Biihler (altitudinal limits), Coaz (ver- 
nacular names), Empeyta, Kienli. Useful and poisonous plants: Binz (poisonous), Correvon 
(medicinal), Dalla Torre (alpine), (Empeyta: woody plants), Eugen Fischer (medicinal), 
Fliick (medicinal), Gesse (edible), Hegetschweiler (Die giftpfianzen), (Hegi), Kiinzie (medi- 
einal), Morell (lake dwellings), Neuweiler (prehistoric), (Savoy: Romand). Weeds (and 
adventive plants in general): Buchli, Probst, Stebler, Thellung. Cultivated plants: (see under 
Schaffhausen, Kummer, 3d title). Miscellaneous: Becherer (summary of new records), Brand- 
stetter (toponymy). Briquet (biographical), Buchli (ecology of weeds), Christ (phytogeog- 
raphy), Furrer (phytogeography and ecology), H. Jaceard (toponymy), P. Jaccard (zones, 
formations, etc.), Jerosch (alpine phytogeography), Kirchner (biology), Morell (prehistory), 
Neuweiler (prehistory), Oecettli (toponymy), Schweizerische Botanische Gesellschaft (Fort- 
schritte: lists of new records). 
Becherer, Alfred. Ein halbes jahrhundert fioristischer neufunde in der 
Schweiz. Verzeichnis der in den jahren 1901-1950 fiir die Schweiz neu fest- 
gestellten pteridophyten und phanerogamen. Verhandl. Naturf. Gesell. Basel 
62: 224-244, 1951. 
Annotated list of principal native and introduced vascular plants first 
recorded in 1901-50; many critical groups are omitted (such as Koeleria, 
Erophila, Rubus, Taraxacum, MHieracium.).—See also Schweizerische 
Botanische Gesellschaft (Fortschritte), below. 
Bennett, A. W. The flora of the Alps, being a description of all the species 
of flowering plants indigenous to Switzerland; and of the alpine species of 
the adjacent mountain districts of France, Italy, and Austria including the 
Pyrenees. 2 v. 120 col. pl. 20.5 ecm. London, 1896. (Various issues, 
1891-1900.) 
General features of flora, short bibliography; rather popular account of 
phanerogams, with brief diagnostic characters. 
Binz, August. Schul- und exkursionsflora der Schweiz mit beriicksichti- 
gung der fiir Basel in betracht kommenden benachbarten teile Badens und 
des Elsasses. 6. aufl. xxiii,438 p. 384 fig. 18.5 cm. Basel, 1949. (1st ed. 
1920. 8. aufl. bearb. von A. Becherer. xx, 382 p. 384 fig. Basel, 1957. 
Not seen.) 
Pocket manual of vascular plants in form of briefly annotated keys, with 
distribution very briefly indicated; list of poisonous plants. The corres- 
ponding French edition is: Binz, August, and Thommen, Edouard. Flore de 
la Suisse y compris les parties limitrophes de |’Ain et de la Savoie. 2. éd. 
rev. et augm. xxxvi, 450 p. 418 fig. (incl. map). 19 cm. Lausanne, 1953. 
(1st ed. 1941.) (Bibliography; pocket manual of vascular plants in form 
of briefly annotated keys; list of poisonous plants. The number of species 
in the first edition is given as 2,578.) 
Bouvier, Louis. Flore des Alpes de la Suisse et de Ja Savoie, comprenant: 
la description des plantes indigénes et des plantes cultivées, les propriétés 
de chaque famille, de chaque espéce utile ou nuisible, et des données 
hygiéniques sur tous les fruits de nos climats. 2. éd., augmenté... 6 p. L, 
228, 812 p. 18.5 cm. Paris, Genéve, 1882. (1st ed. 1878.) 
Annotated, partially keyed, descriptive flora of spermatophytes, including 
cultivated plants, with notes on uses. 
Brandstetter, J. L. Die namen der baume und strauche in ortsnamen der 
deutschen Schweiz. 86 p. 26.5 cm. Luzern, 1902. (Beilage zum Jahres- 
bericht der Hoéheren lehranstalt in Luzern fiir das schuljahr 1901/1902.) 
(Arnold Arboretum library.) 
Short bibliography; list of 99 woody plants (including some repetitions) 
with discussion of etymology, etc., of vernacular names, and list of locality 
names derived from them in the German-speaking cantons.—See also 
