Rare Plants

Preface
1. Modes of rarity
2. Discovery: how rare plants were found
3. The continuing story: new flowers
4. Origins: natives, archaeophytes and neophytes
5. Made in Britain: our endemic flora
6. Micro-rarities: how a few can make a lot
7. Across the divide: the world of hybrids
8. The end game: lost flowers
9. The other world: bryophytes, stoneworts, seaweeds and desmids
10. Plants and people: subjects, symbols and icons
11. The condition of rarity: problems, opportunities and imaginings
12. Lost slippers and other floral icons: challenges, champions and chickenwire
13. The conservation labyrinth: legislation, argument and action
Appendix 1. Protected plants in the United Kingdom
Appendix 2. Protected plants in Ireland
References and further reading
Illustration credits
Acknowledgements
Index

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