#224: The Surprising Map of Plants

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In this map of plants I summarise all of the different kinds of plants from algae all the way through bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms, monocots, eudicots, rosids and asterids. I explain how they are related to each other due to their evolutionary history, and the features that make plants so successful, leaves, roots, a vascular system, spores, seeds, flowers and fruits.

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#194: Good work

Ronald Good was an eminent Dorset botanist and author of A Geographical Handbook of the Dorset Flora (1948). 

The Flora was the result of an extensive botanical survey carried out between the years 1931 and 1939.

Professor Good collected plant lists from over 7,500 stands and recorded over a quarter million plant records. 

From these he mapped the distribution of some 600 of the 1,300 flowering plants in Dorset. His book was heralded in Nature (No. 4152, May 28, 1949) as an original and valuable contribution to plant geography, and a signpost to new pastures for the field botanist.

The Good Archive is a website which is part of the Dorset Environment Research Centre's website.

The data has been added to the new Dorset Explorer. Add layers and explore the data.

One of a number of regional and county-based directories that probably exist; the results of a lifetime of study saved for others to interrogate and use.