This book simultaneously provides a useful checklist of all taxa published in Flora Europaea and documents the sources of all the chromosome numbers cited therein. It will be useful to anyone wishing to have ready access to the names and sequence of taxa used in Flora Europaea (for example in botanical libraries and herbaria) and for those involved with chromosome studies of the European flora.

Originally published in paperback in 1990, this book's purpose was the accurate identification of all British plants.