Based on a 20-year survey organised by the Botanical Society of Scotland, this is the most extensive and authoritative Flora of Edinburgh and the Lothians to be published since 1927. In addition to a complete Flora of vascular plants in the three Lothian vice-counties, the book includes: Specialist chapters on topics ranging from fungi to ferns and from geology and climate to ethnobotany; a substantial Bryophyte Flora of Edinburgh and the Lothians; a discussion of land-use changes and the ecological and phytogeographical indications from the survey; a description of the survey and details of...