Author: Charles Codrington Pressick HobkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Synopsis of the British Mosses
Author: Charles Codrington Pressick HobkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
British Mosses and Liverworts
Author: E. V. WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521294720
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland
Author: A. J. E. SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521546720
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
This book describes and illustrates in detail the 760 species of mosses currently known to occur in the British Isles and incorporates the most up-to-date information available on classification and nomenclature, together with recent synonyms. The species descriptions provide information on frequency, ecology, geographical relationships and distribution, including information on protected species and those species at risk. For many species there are footnotes to aid identification. In addition to the species descriptions there are descriptions of families and genera and also introductory information on conservation, collection, preservation and examination of material, together with advice on using the keys. An artificial key to genera provides the only workable comprehensive key published in the English language. This second edition incorporates the very considerable advances in our knowledge of mosses made in the last quarter of the twentieth century and will provide a unique resource for all concerned with these fascinating organisms.
British Mosses and Liverworts
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521285360
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Dr Watson's lucid introduction to British mosses and liverworts, first published in 1955, has become a standard work. The author gives descriptions of over 200 of the commoner and more notable species, illustrating each to show its diagnostic microscopic and macroscopic features, as well as providing brief notes of many other species.
Ghost Wall
Author: Sarah MossPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
A Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit Hub; An Indie Next Pick for January 2019 “Ghost Wall has subtlety, wit, and the force of a rock to the head: an instant classic.” —Emma Donoghue, author of Room "A worthy match for 3 a.m. disquiet, a book that evoked existential dread, but contained it, beautifully, like a shipwreck in a bottle.” —Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside. In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father’s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie’s father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs—particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice? A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the “primitive minds” of our ancestors.
Atlas of the Bryophytes of Britain and Ireland
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004630724
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The 10-km square dot-distribution maps, based on 30 years’ recording by members of the British Bryological Society, were produced at the Biological Records Centre, ITE, Monks Wood. Each species’ map is accompanied by notes on its habitat, reproductive biology and overseas distribution, and additional maps are included to illustrate various factors affecting distribution. Each volume contains an introductory chapter and concludes with a bibliography and index to species.
Summerwater
Author: Sarah MossPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A BEST BOOK OF JANUARY: O Magazine A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in the UK: The Guardian, The Times “[Moss] writes beautifully about... souls in tumult, about people whose lives have not turned out the way they’d hoped. . .There’s little doubt, reading Moss, that you’re in the hands of a sophisticated and gifted writer." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times The acclaimed author of Ghost Wall offers a new, devastating, masterful novel of subtle menace They rarely speak to each other, but they take notice—watching from the safety of their cabins, peering into the half-lit drizzle of a Scottish summer day, making judgments from what little they know of their temporary neighbors. On the longest day of the year, the hours pass nearly imperceptibly as twelve people go from being strangers to bystanders to allies, their attention forced into action as tragedy sneaks into their lives. At daylight, a mother races up the mountain, fleeing into her precious dose of solitude. A retired man studies her return as he reminisces about the park’s better days. A young woman wonders about his politics as she sees him head for a drive with his wife, and tries to find a moment away from her attentive boyfriend. A teenage boy escapes the scrutiny of his family, braving the dark waters of the loch in a kayak. This cascade of perspective shows each wrapped up in personal concerns, unknown to each other, as they begin to notice one particular family that doesn’t seem to belong. Tensions rise, until nightfall brings an irrevocable turn. From Sarah Moss, the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall—a “riveting” (Alison Hagy, The New York Times Book Review) “sharp tale of suspense” (Margaret Tablot, The New Yorker), Summerwater is a searing exploration of our capacity for kinship and cruelty, and a gorgeous evocation of the natural world that bears eternal witness.
British Mosses, their homes, aspects, structure, and uses. With a figure of each species etched from Nature
Author: F. E. TRIPPPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bryophytes
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Synopsis of the British Mosses
Author: Chas. P. HobkirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
British Mosses, Their Homes, Aspects, Structure, and Uses
Author: Frances Elizabeth TrippPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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