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(1) T0 be the author of three complete county floras is an achievement which we believe to be unique in the annals of British botany, although C. C. Babington, in addition to his fioras of Cambridgeshire and the Channel Islands, compiled the catalogue known as the “Flora Bathoniensis.” The present flora is the third from the pen of Dr. Druce, whose flora of Oxfordshire was published in 1886 and the flora of Berkshire in 1897. A flora of Buckinghamshire is the more welcome as no previous flora has ever been published of the county, though a catalogue of 719 species without localities was issued by the late Mr. James Britten in 1867 under the title of a “Flora of Buckinghamshire.” TEe work before us contains records of about 930 species, exclusive of aliens and the microspecies of Rubus and Taraxacum, or slightly more than the number recorded by Pryor for the neighbouring county of Hertford.
(1) The Flora of Buckinghamshire: with Biographical Notices of Those who have contributed to its Botany during the Last Three Centuries.
By Dr. George Claridge Druce. Pp. exxvii + 437. (Arbroath: T. Buncle and Co.,1926.) n.p.
(2) The Field-Club Flora of the Lothians.
By the Botanical Committee of the Edinburgh Natural History Society. Edited by Isa H. Martin. Pp. viii + 142. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, Ltd., 1927.) 5s. net.
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S., E. (1) The Flora of Buckinghamshire: with Biographical Notices of Those who have contributed to its Botany during the Last Three Centuries (2) The Field-Club Flora of the Lothians. Nature 120, 763 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120763a0
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