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and Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants 18 ; for medicinal plants, 

 Baillon's Traite de Botanique Medicale Phanerogamique, 19 Bentley 

 and Trimen's Medicinal Plants, 20 Dragendorff's Die Heilpflanzen, 21 

 and Dujardin-Beaumetz and figasse's Les Plantes Medicinales ; 22 

 for woody plants, in addition to the Bradley Bibliography 23 and 

 Meyer's Buch der Holznamen, 24 Ahern and Newton's Bibliography, 25 

 Howard's Manual of the Timbers of the World, 26 and Kecord and 

 Mell's 27 Timbers of Tropical America. 



The more strictly bibliographical part of the present work has 

 been the chief concern of Miss Atwood, the selection and annotation 

 of the titles that of S. F. Blake, For the purpose of this publication, 

 it has not seemed worth while to enter into the niceties of citation 

 so dear to the heart of the confirmed bibliographer. Intercalated 

 unnumbered pages, variant cover and title-page titles, unpaged 

 errata lists and the like have in practically all cases been passed 

 over, but no effort has been spared to secure accuracy in all the 

 bibliographical matter actually presented. Authors' given names, 

 when more than one, are cited only as initials in the body of the 

 work, but full names and dates, wherever available, are given in the 

 author index (prepared by Miss Atwood). 



Subdivisions under the principal geographic units have been dis- 

 pensed with as far as possible, to avoid multiplication of subhead- 

 ings, but under each geographic heading works covering the whole 

 region are listed first (under the heading General), followed by the 

 local and partial titles (under the heading Local). Wherever it 

 seems desirable, the geographical information given in the title has 



i 8 Sturtevant, E. L. sturtevant's notes on edible plants. Edited by U. P. 

 Hedrick. vii, 686 p. port. 31 cm. Albany, 1919. (New York Dept. of agriculture. 

 27th Annual report, v. 2, pt. 2 ; also Report of the New York agricultural experiment 

 station, 1919, II.) — Alphabetical list of 2,897 plants, with habitat, uses, principal English 

 names, and references ; bibliography. Edible fungi are not included. 



w Baillon, H. E. traite de botanique medicale phanerogamique. 1499 p. 3487 fi?. 

 24 cm. Paris, 1883—84. — General account of organography and physiology ; systematic 

 account of medicinal plants of the world, with vernacular names and uses, and brief descrip- 

 tions of families and genera and of the more important species. 



20 Bentley, Robert, and Trimen, Henry, medicinal plants, being descriptions with 



ORIGINAL FIGURES OF THE PRINCIPAL PLANTS EMPLOYED IN MEDICINE AND AN ACCOUNT OF 

 THE CHARACTERS, PROPERTIES, AND USES OF THEIR PARTS AND PRODUCTS OF MEDICINAL 



value. 4 v. 306 col. pi. 24 cm. London, 1880 (1875-80). — Systematic account with de- 

 scriptions, official names, composition, uses, references ; 306 species figured, many other men- 

 tioned. Designed as an illustrated botanical guide to official British, Indian, and United 

 States pharmacopoeias. 



21 Dragendorff, Georg. die heilpflanzen der verschiedenen volker und zeiten. 

 ihre anwendung, wesentlichein bestandtheile und geschichte ... vi, 884 p. 24.5 

 cm. Stuttgart, 1898. — Briefly annotated systematic list, mostly without references and 

 with few vernacular names. 



22 Dujardin-Beaumetz, Georges, and Egasse, Ed. les plantes mldicinales indigenes 



ET ExOTlQUES, LEURS USAGES THERAPEUTIQUES PHARMACEUTIQUES ET INDUSTRIELS Vii, 845 p. 



1034 fig., 40 col. pi. 28.5 cm. Paris, 1889. — Descriptive account of more significant medicinal 

 plants of the world, alphabetically arranged, with account of properties and uses ; index of 

 botanical and vernacular names ; list of species classified by uses. 



23 See footnote 4, p. 4. 

 ** See footnote 10, p. 5. 



25 Ahern, G. P., and Newton, h. K. a bibliography on woods of the world, exclu- 

 sive OF THE TEMPERATE REGION OF NORTH AMERICA AND WITH EMPHASIS ON TROPICAL WOODS. 



Scient. Contrib. Trop. Plant Res. Found, no. 10. 77 p. 1928.— List of 1,530 titles, 

 geographically arranged, with translations of non-English titles ; subject index. Includes 

 chiefly items dealing with forestrv and commercial aspects of woods ; floras and purely 

 taxoriomic works are mostly omitted. 



26 Howard, A. L. a manual of the timbers of the world, their characteristics 

 and uses. Rev. ed. to which is appended an index of vernacular names, xxiii, 672 p. 

 illus. 18.5 cm. London, 1934. (1st ed.. 1920.) — Annotated list, alphabetically arranged 

 by vernacular names, with range vernacular names, uses, character of wood ; bibliography, 

 geographical lists of timbers ; indices of botanical and vernacular names. 



27 Record, S. J„ and Mell, C. D. timbers of tropical America, xviii, 610 p. 50 pi. 

 26 cm. New Haven, 1924. — General account of forests in whole of West Indies, Mexico, 

 Central America, and South America ; systematic account of families and more impor- 

 tant genera and species of trees, with vernacular names, uses, description of wood and 

 wood anatomy. 



