The Flora and Vegetation of County Durham. Watsonian Vice-County 66. 1988. 16 figs. numerous distrib. maps. illustr. (some col.). VI, 526 p. 4to. Cloth.

Over 1800 species of vascular plants are listed, and much more is contained within this one important volume. Historical aspects are fully covered, extracted from twenty-three herbaria and all the relevant literature, with love and scholarship. First and early records are therein all their exciting detail, and phytogeographical niche, habitat and distribution notes are given for each and every species. The results of more than twenty years of fieldwork are presented in over eight hundred tetrad maps to guide you to the location and to goad you into an understanding of the importance of the vegetation and its conservation. Vegetation descriptions, in line with the National Vegetation Classification project, are summarized in 960 individual site descriptions, each with a six-figure grid reference.