Wild Flowers in Danger. 1987. 70 colour photographs. 194 p. gr8vo. Cloth.

Wild flowers have been a source of delight to generations of countrylovers, yet today many of the best wild plants are in danger, theircontinuing decline inevitable unless action is taken. The threat totheir survival comes from several quarters - new farming methods,housing projects, draining of marshland, roadbuilding and forestrydevelopment among them, and even from those who, unwittingly, candestroy the plants that they love. Here the author describes a personalselection of a hundred endangered British plants, ranging from therarest, such as the Snowdon Lily, Lady's Slipper Orchid and WoodCalamint; the most beautiful, Wild Gladiolus and Green Hellebore forexample, to those directly in the firing line, such as Corncockle andHoary Stock, Marsh Gentian and Fritillary.