Flora Europaea: Volume 4

Cambridge University Press
Edition: 7th Revised ed., 6/24/2010
EAN 9780521153690, ISBN10: 0521153697

Paperback, 552 pages, 29.7 x 21 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Originally published between 1964 and 1980, this fourth volume is a revision of the seventh edition of Willis, with substantial amendments and additions. One distinct feature is an alphabetical list of accepted family names in this dictionary with their equivalents in Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarum and Engler's Syllabus.

The Flora Europaea organisation
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
List of basic and standard floras
Synopsis of families
Key to families of angiospermae
Explanatory notes on the text
Text
Appendices
Index
Maps.

Review of the hardback: 'This book is a quick source of reference to everyday problems of nomenclature and classification. Libraries of botanical and biological institutions throughout the world should not be without it.' The New Phytologist