BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Plant Form. An Illustrated guide to Flowering Plant Morphology . Adrian D. Bell, with line drawings by Alan Bryan. Flora of Louisiana . Watercolor drawings by Margaret Stones, botanical descriptions by Lowell Urbatsch. xvii + 220 pp., 218 colour and monochrome illustrations. Art in Nature: over 500 plants from Curtis's Botanical Magazine . Introduction by Martyn Rix. 288 pp., 570 colour illustrations. Shamrock: Botany and History of an Irish Myth . E. Charles Nelson. xiv + 200 pp., 81 figs., 5 colour plates. Boethius Press, Aberystwyth & Kilkenny. 1991. Cacti: the Illustrated Dictionary . Rod and Ken Preston‐Mafham. 224 pp., 1,100+ colour photographs. The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Cacti . Clive Innes and Charles Glass. 320 pp., 1,200+ colour photographs. Creating Period Gardens . Elizabeth Banks. 240 pp., many black‐and‐white and colour illustrations, photographs by Jerry Harpur. Hardy Perennials . Alan Bloom, viii + 224 pp., 20 colour plates. Clematis Index . Wim Snoeijer. 144 pp. including 30 pp. black‐and‐white illustrations. Reginald Farrer – Dalesman, Planthunter, Gardener . Ed. John Illingworth and Jane Routh. x + 102 pp., 33 black‐and‐white illustrations. The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: from Jamestown to Jefferson . Peter Martin, xxiv + 240 pp., 97 black‐and‐white illustrations. The Burren. A companion to the wildflowers of an Irish limestone wilderness . E. Charles Nelson, illustrated by Wendy Walsh. 352 pp., 100 colour illustrations. Boethius Press, Aberystwyth and The Conservancy of the Burren, Co. Clare. 1991.