Plant life in Alpine Switzerland : being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants / by E.A. Newell Arber ... Illustrated by 48 plates of photographs from nature, and 30 figures in the text.

  • Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Plant life in Alpine Switzerland : being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants / by E.A. Newell Arber ... Illustrated by 48 plates of photographs from nature, and 30 figures in the text. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Plate XXIV. /Fig. 1. Rosettes of the Mountain House-leek', {Sempervivum montanum, Linn.) . [Major Dixon, photo.] - Fig. 2. Rosette of a Sempervivum attacked by a Parasitic Fungus .... ' [E. A.N. A., photo.]' Page Face 104 XXV. A Plant of the White Dryas (Dryas octopetala, Linn.) ....... 106 [Miss Bacon, photo.] XXVI. A Typical Alpine Carpet Plant (Globvlaria nudicaulis, Linn.) . , . . „ 110 [E.A.N.A., photo.] XXVII. The White Veratrum {Veratrum album, Linn.) . „ 120 Fig. 1. Leafy Shoots. Ie.a.n.a., photo.] Fig. 2. Inflorescence. [E.a.n.a., photo.] XXVIII. The White Veratrum (Veratrum album, Linn.) . „ 122 Fig. 1. Young Shoots in Spring beginning to expand. [Major Dixon, photo.] Fig. 2. Root-stock and Contractile Roots. [E.A.N.A., photo.] XXIX. Fig. 1. The Leaves of a Lady’s-mantle (Alche-' milla), with Drops of Water exuding from the Pores on the Margins . [E.A.N.A., photo.] . Fig. 2. The Carline Thistle (iGarlina acaulis, Linn.) in Bad Weather [E.A.N.A., photo.]^ 126 XXX. Tig. 1. The Alpine Buttercup (Ranunculus\ alpestris, Linn.) [E.A.N.A., photo.] I - ' Fig. 2. Fruits of the Mountain Avens (Geum montanum, Linn.) .... > [Major Dixon, photo.y » 128