Types of British Vegetation

• Preface; Introduction. The units of vegetation - their relationships and classification; Part I. The Conditions of Vegetation in the British Isles: 1. The physical characters and climate of the British Islands; 2. The soils of the British Islands; Part II. The Existing Vegetation of the British Isles: 1. The distribution of the chief forms of vegetation; 2. The plant-formation of clays and loams; 3. The vegetation of the coarser sands and sandstones; 4. The heath formation; 5. The plant-formation of the older siliceous soils; 6. The vegetation of calcareous soils; 7. Aquatic vegetation; 8. The marsh formation; 9. The vegetation of peat and peaty soils - moor, fen and heath; 10. The river valleys of East Norfolk: their aquatic and fen formations; 11. The moor formation - Lowland moors; 12. The Upland moors of the Pennine chain; 13. Arctic-Alpine vegetation; 14. The vegetation of the sea coast; Bibliography of papers on British vegetation; Index of plant names; General index.

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