The Student's Flora of the British Islands

This textbook, by the distinguished botanist Sir Joseph Hooker (1817–1911), is here reissued in the third edition of 1884.

Joseph Dalton Hooker (Author)

9781108069663, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 August 2014

642 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.6 cm, 0.81 kg

This textbook was originally published in 1870, but is here reissued in the third edition of 1884. Its object was 'to supply students and field-botanists with a fuller account of the Flowering Plants and Vascular Cryptograms of the British Islands than the manuals hitherto in use aim at giving'. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), one of the most eminent botanists of the later nineteenth century, was educated at Glasgow, and developed his studies of plant life through expeditions all over the world. (Several of his other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.) A close friend and supporter of Charles Darwin, he was appointed to succeed his father as Director of the Botanical Gardens at Kew in 1865. The flora is followed in this reissue by an 1879 catalogue of British plants compiled by the botanist George Henslow (1835–1925), intended as a companion volume.

Preface
Synopsis of the natural orders
The student's flora
Appendix
Index
The Student's Catalogue of British Plants.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]