Product Description: Flora of the Outer Hebrides is the first comprehensive publication to describe the flowering plants and ferns of the Outer Hebrides, comprising over 700 species. Introductory chapters cover the climate, geography, geology, soils, vegetation and botanical history of the area...read more

Product Description: The Palaeozoic geological history of western South America has been the focus of intense international interest in the last few years. This book brings together multidisciplinary research and review papers on the Lower Palaeozoic geology of the Sierras Pampeanas and the Precordillera of central west Argentina...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Lists more than sixteen thousand scientific and vernacular plant names, and describes name origins and the characteristics of plants

Product Description: Demand for the conservation of rapidly disappearing plants and ecological communities has provided botanists, systematists, and computer scientists with a unified goal--the production of a computer-based information checklist for all of the world's plants...read more

In this book the author adopts and develops the thinking of that influential school of comparative morphology established by W.Troll. The book provides a summary of current understanding of flower and inflorescence morphology, combined with clear illustrations.