Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts
1901; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 64; Issue: 1659 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/064375e0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Tópico(s)Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
ResumoTHE authoress, in the “invitation” which prefaces this book, asks her readers to “spare an idle hour to look with the eye of the mind and the camera at a few of the flowers and ferns in their haunts.” From this it will be evident that the work is not in any sense a scientific one and must not be criticised as if it were. It is a pleasantly written account of the more familiar flowering plants and ferns metwith in a district in North Americaastheypresent themselves in the landscape. It is very fully illustrated with plates and drawings, the former being reproduced from photographs, the latter based on them. The plates, which represent the plants as they grow, are very good. The book will interest those who are familiar with the plants of which it treats, while others who know the wild plants of England will obtain from it a general idea of the common wild flowers of another country. A useful feature is a list of the scientific names of plants, which are mentioned in the text by their local popular names. Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts. By M. O. Wright. Pp. xix + 358. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1901.) Price 10s. 6d net.
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