Abstract
THE scope of this book is to give a readable ecological account of a district which, as Prof. Salter rightly remarks in his preface, has been much neglected by botanists. Accounts of the physical features and geology of the district, and a brief section devoted to the ecological study of plant distribution, precede descriptions of the various types of maritime, lowland and upland vegetation of the area bounded by Aberayron and Tregaron on the south and Plynlimon and the Barmouth estuary and Cader Idris on the east and north. Descriptions of the submerged forests of Cardigan Bay and of the old lead-mining areas and their ecological significance are included and a comparison given of the two mountains, of which Cader Idris is the more varied and floristically richer.
Plant Distribution in the Aberystwyth District: including Plynlimon and Cader Idris.
By Prof. Lily Newton. Pp. 50 + 8 plates. (Aberystwyth: The Cambrian News, n.d.) n.p.
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Plant Distribution in the Aberystwyth District: including Plynlimon and Cader Idris . Nature 133, 9 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133009a0
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