Wildflowers of the Yukon and Northwestern Canada including Adjacent Alaska

Nora T. Corley is a librarian in Ottawa.

The many and varied flowering plants of the Yukon, the District of Mackenzie, British Columbia north of 55°, and eastern Alaska are listed in this handsome handbook according to the Englerian sequence of plant families. Each flower, illustrated by a colour photograph (and sometimes two), is listed by its English name or names, followed by the Latin name; each is described in straightforward terms, and its distribution within the area covered by this guide is given. Some 300 wildflowers are included, followed by an illustrated glossary of technical terms used in the text, and a key to species by colour and shape. There is a map of the Canadian northwest, a bibliography of fifteen publications, and a detailed index. The author, a senior laboratory instructor in the Biology Department at the University of British Columbia for many years, contributed many of the photographs, which were taken on his many field trips to the area. The photographs are very clear, thus making this an enjoyable book to look through and a useful guide in the field. Northern botanists, amateur and professional, will want a copy, and it should be included in northern and botanical library collections.