WCP2968

[1]¹

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY),

CROMWELL ROAD,

LONDON: S. W.

Oct 12. 1909.

Dear Sir,

In answer to your letter² dated Oct 9. there is a well known work by De Condolle³ which gives an estimate of the number of Phanerogams in certain countries & although not exactly what you ask for will interest you[.]

De Condolle Geographie Botanique 1855.⁴

The number of Phanerogams [2] in Scandinavia, Finland & Denmark = 1677

Lapland = 496

Sweden & Swedish Lapland = 1165

There are several books which would give you further information some of which you might possibly be able to get on loan from the Library at the Linnean Society.

Summa Vegetabilium Scandinaviae⁵ by E. Fries⁶ contrasts the Flora of Finland, Lapland, Sweden, Norway, Gothland & Denmark (as known in 1846) It gives a tabular statement with a [3] list of plants shewing which grow in each of these countries.

The best Flora of Scandinavia⁷ is Hartmans.⁸ It has been issued in many editions. We have the edition of 1879 but the plants are not numbered. Hartmans estimate of species seems very fair & reasonable and he does not segregate unduly[.]

If you wish I will count for you the number in this Flora. But recent Scandinavian lists are swollen by large numbers of [illeg.] &c.

[4] For information of the Flora of Denmark see

Johan Lange⁹ Danish Flora 1886-1888.¹⁰

On Norway

Blytt¹¹ Haandbog i Norges Flora 1902-1906¹²

or the edition 1861-1876

Sweden

Nyman¹³ Svensk Phanerogam Flora¹⁴ 1873

Yours truly | Edmund Baker¹⁵ [signature]

P. S.

I have just been staying with your friends the Clement Reids¹⁶ at Moreton Hampstead on Dartmoor. We found a very rare St John's Wort. H. linariifolium.