History of the British Flora

Table of Contents

Prefaces
Part I: Introduction
Part II. Collection and Identification of Plant Remains:
1. General considerations
2. Seeds, fruits and leaves, etc.
3. Wood and charcoal
4. Pollen as an index of presence
Part III. The Background Scale of Pleistocene Events:
1. Glacial and interglacial periods
2. Radiocarbon dating
3. The Weichselian
4. Flandrian geological events
5. Climatic changes
6. Mire stratigraphy
7. Biological evidence
8. Archaeology
9. Pollen analysis
10. Primary divisions of the last fifteen thousand years
Part IV. Recorded Sites:
1. General comments
2. Scottish sites
3. Irish sites
4. Site record
Part V. The Plant Record:
1. Introduction: explanation of conventions
2. Collected records
Part VI. Pattern of Change in the British Flora:
1. Floristic chances in the Tertiary period
2. The Ice Age and the interglacial periods: climate, soil and vegetation
3. The early Pleistocene
4. The Cromer Forest bed series
5. The Corton interstadial and the Hocnian stage: middle Pleistocene
6. The Ipswichian interglacial
7. Galcial stages: early and middle Weichselian
8. Glacial stages: late Weichselian
9. Phytogeographic synopsis
10. Floristic history in the light of Weichselian records
11. The beginning of the Flandrian period: the pre-Boreal period
12. The early warm period: the Boreal period
13. The thermal maximum and the Atlantic period
14. Prehistoric husbandry and the sub-Boreal period
15. The sub-Atlantic period and climatic deterioration
16. Regional differentiation, migration and survival
Part VII: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

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