The Field Key to Winter Twigs: a guide to native and planted deciduous trees, shrubs and woody climbers (xylophytes) found in the British Isles

Description:

Original edition. Offers a new approach to identifying over 400 trees, shrubs and woody climbers to be found wild or planted in the British Isles. It allows any diligent enthusiast to reliably name a woody plant, normally within three turns of pages and often within a minute of study. It provides short and user-friendly keys to groups of similar woody plants; line illustrations to clarify descriptions; colour plates to highlight twig and bud morphology; and a glossary and detailed section of unusual characters. A powerful identification tool for all amateur and professional botanists, ecologists, gardeners, foresters, dendrologists, horticulturalists, naturalists and ramblers.

Condition

Vg. From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the London Natural History Society, with his name to title-page.