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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    XXXI. XXXII. XXXIII. XXXIY. XXXV. XXXVI. /'Fig. 1. The Black Nigritella (Nigritella angusti-\ folia, Rich.) ..... [Major Dixon, photo.] \ 0 r If act Fig. 2. The Lesser Butterfly Orchid (Habenana bifolia, R. Br.) .... ' [Major Dixon, photo.]' 134 Fig. 1. The Spring Crocus (Crocus vernus, All.)' Flowering in the Snow [Major Dixon, photo.] Fig. 2. Section of an Alpine Meadow, showing the Peat Soil..... ► [Major Dixon, photo.]' 154 Typical High Alpine Cushion Plants . . „ 180 Fig. 1. The Sessile-flowered Moss Campion (Silene cxscapa, All.) [Major Dixon, photo.] Fig. 2. The Swiss Androsace (Androsace hel- vetica, Gaud.) [Major Dixon, photo.] High Alpine Cushion Plants . . . „ 182 Fig. 1. Cushion of the Glacial Androsace (Androsace glacialis, Hopp.) [Miss Bacon, photo.] Fig. 2. Cushion of the Dwarf Alsine (Alsine sedoides, Froel.) [Miss Bacon, photo.] Fig. 1. The Eritrichium (Eritrichium nanum Schrad.) ..... [Miss Bacon, photo.] ' Fig. 2. The Flowers and Bulbils of the Vivi- parous Polygonum (Polygonum viviparum, Linn.)...... . [E.A.N.A., photo.]. 184 Fig. 1. The Purple Saxifrage (Saxifraga' oppositifolia, Linn.) .... [Major Dixon, photo.] Fig. 2. The Androsace-like Saxifrage (Scuxi- fraga androsacea, Linn.) ^ [Major Dixon, photo.y