From: Roger Whitehead Newsgroups: sci.bio.botany Subject: Re: plant familiies Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:24:19 GMT Organization: offf Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <19990123181704.18641.00001771@ng27.aol.com> Reply-To: rgw@office-futures.com NNTP-Posting-Host: e1c5p58.scotland.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Virtual Access by Atlantic Coast PLC, http://www.soft-shop.com Xref: newsfeed.atl sci.bio.botany:1036370 In article <19990123181704.18641.00001771@ng27.aol.com>, Batmankp0W wrote: > im looking for a very particular book its called 100 plant families > its publisher is cup authors hickey and king Its full title is "100 Families of Flowering Plants" and it was by Michael Hickey and Clive King. The publisher was Cambridge University Press; the ISBN (for my 1988 paperback edition) is 0 521 33700 3. I've used the past tense because I think the authors have now replaced it with one called "25 species ..." or similar. Shame; the original was excellent. You might be able to get it secondhand, though. Regards, Roger - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Roger Whitehead, 14 Amy Road, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0PX, England (Tel +44 (0)1883 713074; fax +44 (0)1883 716793) I've now found out the new title. It's "Common Families of Flowering Plants", pub. CUP again. As I suspected, it deals only with twenty-five species. From: Carl Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-bls40 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.bio.botany To: BATMANKP0W Subject: Re: plant familiies References: <19990123181704.18641.00001771@ng27.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:46:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: host-209-214-82-168.ath.bellsouth.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:46:03 EST Xref: newsfeed.atl sci.bio.botany:1036373 Try the excellent: Guide to Flowering Plant Families by Wendy Zomlefer, The University of North Carolina Press, 1994, 430 pages with many excellent illustrations and a super glossary. Very good systematic treatment with cladistics as well. This is now the standard work for the US. I have no financial relationship to author or publisher but am a pleased user of this book. Carl Miller