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82 EVELYN (J.). SILVA: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees. 2 vols., roy. 4to., portrait and numerous plates; russia gilt; fine copy

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83 FOSTER (M.). Bulbous Irises. 8vo., woodcuts; sd.
84 FRIES (E.). Systema Mycologicum, sistens Fungorum Ordines, Genera,
et Species. 3 vols., 1821-32-Elenchus Fungorum. 2 vols., 1828-
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1876 No. 56 of 100 privately printed copies. Presented to Mr. Roper by the author. 90 GORDON (G.). THE PINETUM: being a SYNOPSIS of all the CONIFEROUS PLANTS at present known, with Descriptions, History and Synonyms, and a comprehensive Systematic Index. 8vo., pp. xxviii and 484; cloth 1880 This much enlarged new edition incorporates the former supplement and includes an index of the popular names of Coniferæ, English and foreign. An alphabetical reference-list of all the coloured plates of the Genus Pinus published in the great works of Lambert, Lawson, and Forbes, is added.

91 GRANT (Capt. Bartle). Orchids of Burma and the Andaman Islands described. 8vo., vi, 424 and 8 Index pp. (published at 12s 6d); cloth

Rangoon, 1895

Published privately in Burma. Indispensable to all Orchid Collectors. 92 GRAY (Asa). Synoptical Flora of North America. The GAMOPETALE. Second Edition of vol. I, part II, and vol. II, part I. 8vo., pp. 974; sd. Washington, Smithsonian Misc. Collections, 1888 93 GREEN (Thos.). Universal Herbal, or botanical, medical and agricultural Dictionary of all the Plants in the World. 2 stout vols. 4to., second edition improved, many plates, hf. calf neat 94 GRENIER (C.). Flore de la Chaine Jurassique.

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95 GREVILLE (R. K.). SCOTTISH CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA, or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants, belonging chiefly to the Order FUNGI. 6 vols., roy. 8vo., 300 finely coloured plates; half green

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