Field / Identification Guide Handbook / Manual
Edited By: The Species Group of the British Iris Society
403 pages, 32 plates with b/w photos, 27 b/w line drawings, 27 b/w maps
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This volume was first published in 1997, providing the first comprehensive, botanically detailed and up-to-date survey of this beautiful group of plants since publication of The Genus Iris by W. R. Dykes. Following the pattern of the original Dykes monograph, botanical details, cultivation suggestions and general comments are supplied, and the work is generously illustrated with accurate line drawings, b/w photos of unusual species and distribution maps. This survey includes all of the species described so far and takes into account the many changes in classification which have taken place in the group. Information scattered in the literature is brought together in one volume to provide an authoritative reference for professional botanists and growers, and a mine of useful information for amateur gardeners and iris enthusiasts. A 2010 preface has been written especially for the re-issue of this important text.
Contents
1. Iris history
2. Cultivation
3. Chromosomes
4. Guide to identification
5. Section Iris
6. Section Psammiris
7. Section Oncocyclus
8. Section Regeli
9. Section Hexapogon
10. Section Pseudoregelia
11. Section Lophiris
12. Series Chinenses
13. Series Vernae
14. Series Ruthenicae
15. Series Tripetalae
16. Sibiricae
17. Series Californicae
18. Series Longipetalae
19. Series Laevigatae
20. Series Hexagonae
21. Series Prismaticae
22. Series Spuriae
23. Series Foetidissimae
24. Series Tenuifoliae
25. Series Ensatae
26. Series Syriacae
27. Series Ungiculares
28. Subgenus Nepalensis
29. Subgenus Xiphium
30. Subgenus Scorpiris
31. Subgenus Hermodactyloides
32. Iris pariensis
Distribution maps
Line drawings
Colour plates
Glossary
Index of species
Customer Reviews
Field / Identification Guide Handbook / Manual
Edited By: The Species Group of the British Iris Society
403 pages, 32 plates with b/w photos, 27 b/w line drawings, 27 b/w maps
Review of the hardback:"[...] useful, distilled and succinct [...] Contributors to this book include most of the authors working on and growing irises in the United Kingdom [...] as well as some from abroad [...] It should please gardeners and botanists alike."
- Stephen Anderton, The Horticulturalist
Review of the hardback:"[...] the Guide is an achievement to be celebrated and should be a standard reference work for many years."
- The Hardy Plant Society
"[...] a beautifully produced book which will no doubt be of interest of keen Iris growers everywhere [...] a valuable publication for the identification of species in this wonderful genus."
- Richard Wilford, Bentham-Moxon Trust
Review of the hardback:"[...] clearly and simply written with abundant useful information."
- Douglas Darnowski, Plant Science Bulletin
"[...] a very consciously written result of a critical study of literature, synthesised with systematic, planned, long time collected personal experience and continuous mutual exchange of experience of authors belonging to a wide range of professions - from pure scientists to keen amateur gardeners [...] 'The Guide to Species Irises' is a very important manual for anybody who will work seriously with this genus and a resource of extremely valuable garden plants - one of the basic perennials in the moderate climate of all parts of the world."
- M. Blazek, (Pruhonice) Biologia Plantarum
