Modern Methods in Plant Taxonomy

This volume is based on the papers presented at a Conference on Modern Methods in Plant Taxonomy, organized by the Botanical Society of the British Isles in associations with the Linnean Society of London, held in the University of Liverpool on 11-12 September, 1967.

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Plant Taxonomy Today/V.H. Heywood. 2. The Relevance of the National Herbaria to Modern Taxonomic research in United States of America/A. Cronquist.3. The Relevance of the National Herbaria to Modern Taxonomic Research/J.P.M. Brenan. 4. Regional and Local Herbaria/J. McNeill. 5. Current Developments in Systematic Plant Anatomy/C.R. Metcalfe. 6. The Karyotype in Taxonomy/D.M. Moore. 7. Fertility, Sterility and the species problem/O.T. Solbrig. 8. Phenotypic Plasticity with particular reference to three Amphibious Plant Species/C.D.K. Cook. 9. Hybridization, Taxonomy and Evolution/W.H. Wagner. 10. Chemosystematics with Emphasis on Systematic Serology/D.E. Fairbrothers. 11. Botanical Problems of Numerical Taxonomy/J. Cullen. 12. On Property Structure, Numerical Taxonomy and Data Handling/M.B. Dale. 13. Numerical Taxonomic studies in the genus Sarcostemma R. Br. (Asclepiadaceae)/M.P. Johnson and R.W. Holm. 14. Observations on a computer aided survey of the Jamaican species of columnea and alloplectus/W.T. Stearn. 15. The Scale of Genecological Differentiation/D.A. Wilkins. 16. The Role of Geographical and Ecological studies in Taxonomy/F.J.F. Fisher. 17. Geographical and Ecological Aspects of Infraspecific differentiation/F. Ehrendorfer. Summary. References. Subject index.