MOUNTAIN FLOWERS. By John Raven and Max Walters. New Naturalist No. 33.

1956 1st edition. Ppxvi,240. Colour and b/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations, maps and bibliography. Green buckram.

"This is the first book ever published on the wild flowers of British mountains." Readable and authoritative, still an excellent place to start in anyone's investigations of this class of the British flora. Includes Ireland. Chapters include: The pioneers; Physical features and vegetation of British mountains; Nature of the mountain flora; Origin of the mountain flora; Snowdonia and the English Lake District; The Cairngroms and Lochnagar; Volcanic hills of Western Scotland; Limestones of Northern England and North-Western Scotland; Mica-schist mountains of the Central Highlands; Ireland. Appendices list mountain plants and plants occurring commonly above 2,000 feet.