Book ID: 24215
STANLEY, Trevor D. and Estelle M.ROSS
Flora of South-eastern Queens- land. Volume 2, with contributions by Helen Aston and Peter Taylor. illus. (line - drawings). III, 623 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Second hand copy. Good condition. -This volume contains those species of dicotyledons which occur insouth-eastern Queensland, not covered in Volume 1. The total number of species of dicotyledons described in Volume 1 and Volume 2 is 2629 in899 genera and 155 families, with 1347 species in 474 genera and 77families in Volume 2. As explained in the Introduction of Volume 1,Family 8 Proteaceae has been included in Volume 2 to allow incorporationof changes brought about by modern revisions in the group but notpublished in time for inclusion in Volume 1. Estelle Ross prepared thefamilies numbered 8, 80-91, 103, 110, 124-127, 136, 148-154, and thegenus Eucalyptus in 99.Myrtaceae. Peter Taylor of the Herbarium, RoyalBotanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, England, prepared the account of Family143.Lentibulariaceae and Helen Aston of the National Herbarium ofVictoria prepared the account of 123.Menyanthaceae. Families 92-98,99,Myrtaceae with the exception of Eucalyptus, 100-102, 104-109, 111-122, 128-135, 137-142, 144-147 and 155 were prepared by Trevor Stanley.