Subject: Re: BRITISH FLORA BOOK: INFO NEEDED

From: [email-masked] ("Roger Whitehead")
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:14:09 GMT

>  The currently recommended botanical flora is called the New English
> Flora or something like that

The currently definitive British flora is Clive Stace's New Flora of the 
British Isles. Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0 521 42793 2. It's 
thick, heavy, printed in distressed Courier and with an inadequate index, 
but it's the best.

Roger

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From: [email-masked] ("Roger Whitehead")
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:23:49 GMT

A popular new book is Richard Mabey's Flora Britannica 
(Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996. ISBN 1 85619 377 2). It deals with the 
ancient and modern uses and folklore of about a thousand species of 
tress, shrubs and herbs, and is the result of a four-year project. It 
will tell even experienced botanists a lot about the social context of 
the subjects of their work or hobby and is well illustrated with many 
good colour photographs. It costs UKP30.00.

If your brother and his wife do not already have it, it would make an 
excellent Xmas present.

Roger (who has no connection with the book or its production, other than 
as a pleased purchaser)

Roger Whitehead,
Director,