Book Description

Ecological criteria in plant taxonomy; Chemical evidence in plant taxonomy; The chromosomes and plant taxonomy; Breeding systems, variation patterns and species delimitation; Information content of keys for identification; The classification of crop plants; The taxonomist's role in the conservation of genetic diversity; Euphrasia: a taxonimically critical group with normal sexual reproduction; The huppuris syndrome; The taxonomy of bryophytes; The taxonomy of lichen-forming fungi: reflections on some fundamental problems; Endemic taxa and the taxonomist; British endemics; European floristcs: past, present and future.