Works already published by the same Author. 



THE FLORA OF BERKSHIRE, being a Topo- 

 graphical and Historical account of the Flowering 

 Plants and Ferns found in the County, with 

 short biographical notices of the Botanists who 

 have contributed to Berkshire Botany during the 

 last three centuries. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1897. 

 With map. 8vo, pp. cl, 644, 16s. Dedicated by 

 special permission to Queen Victoria. 



PRESS NOTES. 



' Mr. G. C. Druce's zeal as a botanist and his thoroughness as a writer 

 on what is with him a serious hobby are strikingly illustrated in his new 

 Flora of Berkshire, for which we have nothing but the highest praise. The 

 book possesses all the merits of a perfect local " Flora ", and always excepting 

 fresh habitats, it seems to exhaust the whole subject. The time and labour 

 devoted to the work obviously have been very great, and wherever we have 

 tested it the result has been satisfactory. It is a model upon which all 

 future county " Floras " ought to be based.' — The limes. 



'The Introduction contains a most valuable account of the physical 

 geography of the county, whilst the record of the botanists who have, in 

 greater or less degree, contributed to make known the botany of the 

 district ... is of great interest to the botanical reader. Mr. Druce has 

 taken a most comprehensive view of the limitations of a county flora, and 

 he has done his work so conscientiously that the botanists interested in the 

 British flora can but feel grateful to him.' — The Athenaeum 



' We have seen a number of county floras, but must give the palm to this 

 one for completeness and general excellence. The amount of labour which 

 this flora must have cost is fully brought home to us when we come to 

 consider the names given to the species, the authorities, various botanists, 

 writers, books, herbaria, &c, who or which have been consulted, and the 

 information here tabulated for the benefit of future workers in this delightful 

 field of research.' — The Gardening World. 



' Turning over the pages of this volume we find first an Introduction 

 containing a vast amount of information all bearing on the main subject, 

 the plants that grow in Berkshire. First of all some remarks on the name 

 of the county, its early history, its comparative size, and its agriculture ; 

 then on its physical geography, meteorology and climate, its various soils 

 and corresponding natural growths, in earlier and in later times, and at 

 greater length on the geology and the botanologia of the county. We 

 regard it in every way worthy of the reputation which Mr. Druce enjoys 

 as a learned bo anist, an indefatigable worker, an acute and careful observer, 

 and a man of progress.'— Oxford Magazine. 



' In his second flora he introduces in his critical notes on species a new 

 feature. Every variation has a claim on the botanist's attention, and where 

 can local varieties be better considered than in a local flora? It is a good 

 feature in the book.' — Nature. 



' The academic recognition of his services to the natural histor} r of the 

 district has been doubly earned. The pages which are devoted to the dis- 

 tribution of flowering plants and ferns are a curiosity of packed and ordered 

 information.' — Reading Mercury. 



