The Discovery of the Native Flora of Briatin and Ireland. 2017. illus. 484 p. Paper bd.

Records for 1670 species and aggregates, covering Great Britain,Ireland, The Channel Isles and the Isle of Man. -The introduction sets out the background, the previous compilations, and the very extensive developments over the last century (since William Clarke's First Records of British Flowering Plants). For each species the following information is given: The firstliterature reference, commencing with the works of William Turner; thefirst evidence (herbarium specimen, manuscript or other); a relativelycritical account of every significant national flora or herbal since1538; a list of principal periodicals from 1666 to date; lists of censuscatalogues and lists of plants; details of county floras with a verygood history of discovery; books on the hist. of botany; developments inIreland, Scotland and Wales; major herbaria whose contents are known,however broadly. List of discoverers of each plant where known andwith sources (ca 500 names) and lists of plants they discovered.