This unique book details all plants that have ever been recorded growing in a wild state at Kew Gardens since its founding in 1759, revealing the extent to which the wild flora of the Kew estate and its periphery has changed over 250 years. Included are all species found growing wild, alien and native species that have escaped from cultivation, and all natives cultivated in formal beds or other plantings, present and historic, for which there is reliable documentation.<BR><BR>Nearly 2,000 plants are covered, accompanied by citations from the literature, herbarium specimen records, and many colour photographs. TOM COPE studied taxonomy at Manchester University under Prof. C.A.Stace and was then appointed to the Grass Section of the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1974. He has contributed accounts of grasses to several major Floras, including Pakistan, Somalia, Arabia, Egypt, southern tropical Africa and Madeira and is co-author of the recently published Grasses of the British Isles. He is the BSBI British grass and rush referee. Tom has been surveying the wild flora of Kew for over 35 years.