Book ID: 75294
Marren, Peter
Britain's Rare Flowers. 1999. 138 col. photogr. 6 col. plates. XV, 334 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
Covers England, Scotland, and Wales. -Contents (partly): Inroduction: The allure of rare flowers/ A root ofHonewort: how our rare flora was discovered/ Botanical stations: findingrare flowers/On the trail of the ice/ A question of numbers/ Living on a tightrope:hybrids and predators/ The lust for rarities: did collecting damage ourwild flora?/ A matter of origins/ Lost flowers/ New natives/ Plantsand people/ A whiff of Ground Pine: species surveys/ ResurrectingStarfruit: conservation and rare flowers/ Appendix (First records ofrare and Red Data Book flowers and ferns/ Legally protected floweringplants and ferns in Britain/etc.).