| Author | Stace, C. |
| Year | 1997 |
| Title | New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2) |
| ISBN | 0-521-58935-5 |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | All the vascular plants growing in the wild as known at the time. |
| Source | Second edition edition, 1130pp, Cambridge University Press |
| Illustrations | Line drawings and scanning electon-micrographs in the text. |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | A complete flora covering all naturalised introductions and frequent casuals as well as our native and archeophyte flora. Field and forestry crops and widely planted ornamental trees are also included. The apomictic genera: Rubus, Taraxacum and Hieracium are only treated as far as comparatively readily identifiable "sections". The keys generally work well, but the species descriptions are very spare and you may find yourself referring back to CTW/CTM more often than you expect! The first edition of this work came out in 1991, just in time to be adopted for the BSBI’s Flora 200 project. This ensured a much more rapid transition from the beloved CTW/CTM which botanists had been using for a generation. |
| Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | P198-201: *Limonium* figs and key: Stem branching illustrations are misleading wrt key, eg *L. parvum* (198-1) and *L. procerum* (199-3) are the only ones that have "some stems unbranched in lower half" but *L. parvum* is illustrated with just a single branch at the halfway point. The remainder of *L. binervum* agg. are "+/- all stems branched from low down" (198-all but 3 and 199-4 & 5) yet *L. recurvum* is shown with two stems branched in only the top third and *L. dodartiforme* is similar. This changes the gizz of the plants and makes one wonder if the key is in error. P633: *Utricularia* key, couplet 2: The ratios 1.8-2.8 and 1.2-2 are the wrong way around. P899: *Cortaderia*: descriptions of lemmas of the two spp have been interchanged. (Clement, E.J., BSBI News, 2005 No 99, p48-50) |
| Examine |  in the Hand ( with x8 or x10 hand lens is also useful) |
