Author: Porsild, A. E. (Alf Erling) [1901 - 19??]
Title: The Vascular Plants of the Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Description: Ottawa, Edmond Cloutier, 1955. orig. wrappers. 24x15cm, iv, 226 pp. Series: National Museum of Canada. Bulletin no. 135. Biological series no. 45.. 24pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Physiography: Geography; Islands of the Southern Group, Islands of the Northern Group; Geology; Geomorphic Processes Affecting Vegetation; Climate; Glaciation & History of the Flora; History of Botanical Exploration; The Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Phytogeographic Divisions; Means of Plant Dispersal & Migration; Distribution; Causes for Discontinuous Distribution; Compostion of the Flora; Notes on Some Plant Habitats; Catalogue of the Vascular Flora of the Western Islands.

Keywords: Botany, Western Islands, Canada Flora, Plant Geography, Vascular Plants, Arctic, Phytogeography, ,