A serious interest in botany is a prerequisite for readers of Flora
of Madeira (HMSO, pp 574, £35 pbk) and Flora of Glamorgan (HMSO,
pp 383, £29.95 pbk). Both are part of a series produced by London’s
Natural History Museum and offer detailed descriptions of all the wild plants
known to occur in the regions they cover. The Welsh volume has a brief history
of botanists in the region, many distribution maps but no illustrations
of modern plants, while the Madeira volume has some fine line drawings and
covers more than 1360 species from this botanically rich island.
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