Abstract
ENGLISH field botanists frequently complain that the British flora has not yet received the careful critical attention which has been lavished on Continental floras. To a certain extent this is doubtless true. We have no manual that for thoroughness of treatment and wealth of reference to original descriptions and type-specimens can compare with Rouy and Foucault's “Flore de France”; at the same time there is an abundance of valuable information scattered through our numerous natural history journals only waiting for some energetic and widely experienced systematist to collate and bring together in a really satisfactory British flora. There are several botanists eminently fitted for such an undertaking, and it is urgently to be desired that one or more of them should take the matter in hand. Meanwhile, our numerous and rapidly accumulating county floras are paving the way to a complete botanical survey of the British Isles.
Flora of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight.
By Frederick Townsend Second edition. Pp. xxxviii + 658. (London: Lovell Reeve and Co., Ltd., 1904.) Price 21s. net.
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Flora of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight . Nature 71, 245–246 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071245a0
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