The New Journal of Botany is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the native flora of Northern and Western Europe, including population and conservation biology, ecological genetics, autecological, physiological, and phenological studies, plant/animal interactions, and plant biochemistry. It was established in 1949 as Watsonia, with the subtitle Journal & Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles. It was named after the eighteenth-century British botantist Hewett Watson. The journal obtained its current title in 2011 with volume numbering restarting at 1. The journal is published by Maney Publishing on behalf of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.