The first Flora specific to Israel and surrounding areas. Its four
parts, each comprising one volume of text and one of plates, treat some
2,470 species to be found at this meeting point of four
phytogeographical regions. Many of the species and varieties included
are described here for the first time or renamed since the second
edition of Post's Flora. The descriptions, with few exceptions, are
based on plants deposited in the Herbarium of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.