Webbs An Irish Flora

BIBLIOGRAPHY

For those who wish to extend their knowledge of the Irish flora the following books may be useful. Nearly all cover not only Ireland but also Britain and, in some cases, a large portion of continental Europe. It should be noted that the term ‘British Isles’ is often used by British botanists to include Ireland. These latter works, therefore, include a large number of species which one will never find in Ireland, except perhaps in specialist collections in gardens. A number of the works cited do not contain keys, but instead rely on ‘matching by eye’. Although satisfactory in many cases, this procedure is not sufficiently precise for accurate identification in many genera. Some of the works listed below are out of print but all should be available from a good library. It should be borne in mind that detailed regional accounts of the flora, commonly available for Britain, are scarce in Ireland. Indeed most areas – e.g. Counties Sligo, Mayo, Tipperary, Meath, Longford, etc. – still await their first county flora. Many of those for which an account has been published are either out of print (e.g. Connemara & the Burren, Inner Dublin and County Carlow) or are both out of print and out of date (e.g. the floras of Counties Cork, Kerry and Wicklow are all over fifty years old). General works Roinn Oideachais, Ainmneacha Plandaí agus Ainmhithe. Oifig an tSoláthair, Baile Átha Cliath, 1978. Curtis, T.G.F. & McGough, H.N. (1988). The Irish Red Data Book: 1 Vascular Plants. Wildlife Service, Stationery Office, Dublin. A summary of the state of knowledge of rare and threatened Irish higher plants. Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. 4th Ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 434pp. Haston, E., Richardson, J.E., Stevens, P.F., Chase, M.W. & Harris, D.J. (2009). The Linear Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (LAPG) III: a linear sequence of the families in APG III. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 161, 128–131. Johnson, O. & More, D. (2004). Tree Guide. Harper Collins, London. 464pp. Poland, J. & Clement, E. (2009). The Vegetative Key to the British Flora. Botanical Society of the British Isles, Southampton. 526pp + 24 plates. A very useful book that allows for plant identification in the absence of flowers and fruit. Praeger, R.L. (1980). The Way that I Went. Allen Figgis, Dublin. 394pp. [Reprint. First published 1937] BIBLIOGRAPHY 435 Praeger, R.L. (1974). The Botanist in Ireland. EP Publishing, Wakefield. 567pp. [Reprint. First published 1934] Preston, C.D., Pearman, D.A. & Dines, T.D. (Editors) (2002). New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 910pp + CD. A comprehensive and authoritative book. Contains maps, giving details of distribution in Britain and Ireland of all native species, most native subspecies , most introduced species and the more common of the hybrids listed in Stace (2010). The maps are not as accurate for Ireland as for Britain, the Irish data being less complete. This work is occasionally referred to in the text of the present work using the abbreviation ‘Atlas’. Reynolds, S.C.P. (2002). A Catalogue of Alien Plants in Ireland. National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. 144pp. Scannell, M.J.P. & Synnott, D.M. (1987). Census Catalogue of the Flora of Ireland. Stationery Office, Dublin. 171pp. A check-list of Irish plants, with the distributions of each given in terms of the biological vice-counties. It replaces the census catalogue in Praeger’s The Botanist in Ireland. This latter work contains information not available elsewhere and is worth looking out for on the second-hand book market. Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P.G. (2006). A classification of extant ferns. Taxon, 55, 705–731. Stace, C.A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles. 3rd Ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1232 + xxxiipp. This book allows one to key-out any higher plant (whether native, naturalised or alien) which one is likely to find in Britain or Ireland; therefore, its scope is far broader than our volume. The keys are comprehensive, if sometimes structurally rather complex; most of the illustrations are clear. A selection of Irish regional Floras Akeroyd, J. (1996). The wild plants of Sherkin, Cape Clear and Adjacent Islands of West Cork. Sherkin Island Marine Station, Sherkin Island, Cork. 180pp. Allin, T. (1883). The Flowering Plants and Ferns of the County Cork. J. Marche, Weston-Super-Mare. 113pp. Booth,E.M.(1979).TheFloraofCountyCarlow.RoyalDublinSociety,Dublin.172pp. Brunker, J.P. (1950).Flora of the County Wicklow. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk. 310pp. Doogue, D...