PUBLISHED DECEMBER 1955 



SPEQES STUDIES IN THE BRITISH FLORA 



Edited by J. E. LOUSLEY 



The purpose of this volume is to make available to a wider public the papers read at the very successful 

 Conference arranged by the Botanical Society of the British Isles in 1954. The sixteen contributions cover 

 the subject over a very wide field and, in addition to those dealing with special studies of flowering plants, 

 from paleobotany to experimental taxonomy, others are concerned with fungi, algae, bryophytes and 

 ferns. The contributors include Prof. Alan Burges, Prof, J. H. Burnett, Mr. J. S. L. Gilmour, Prof. S. C. 

 Harland, Prof. J. Heslop-Harrison, Dr. E. W. Jones, Prof. I. Manton, Dr. A. Melderis, Dr. R. Melville, 

 Dr. H. Hamshaw Thomas, Dr. W. B. Turrill and Prof. T. G. Tutin. The discussion which followed some 



of the papers is also included. 



Demy 8vo., 190 pages, with 2 half-tone plates and 23 figures in the text. Bound in buckram 



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The following reports of Conferences arranged by the Society are also available 



No. 1. British Flowering Plants and Modern Systematic Methods. Edited by A. J. Wilmott, 

 pp. 102 + 18 half-tone plates. Price 10^. 



No. 2. The Study of the Distribution of British Plants. Edited by J. E. Lousley. Demy Svc, 

 pp. 128, with about 28 plant distribution maps and other illustrations. Price \0s. 



No. 3. The Changing Flora of Britain. Edited by J. E. Lousley. pp. 204 + 6 half-tone plates and 

 25 figures in the text. Bound in buckram. Price 155. 



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