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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    XLIV. Fig. 1. Rock Colonisation : A Bare Slab of' Rock in a Forest showing a Primitive Soil composed of Pine-needles . [Major Dixon, photo.] . Fig. 2. The Lichen (Usnea) growing on the branches of a Coniferous Tree [E.A.N.A., photo.]l Face 238 XLY. The Linnsea (Linncea borealis, Gronov.) . XLYI. Tig. 1. The Box-leaved Polygala (rolygala' chamcebnxus, Linn.) .... photo.] - - Fig. 2. The Two-flowered Violet (Viola bijkyra, Linn.). ..... . [Major Dixon, photo, y 248 >> 252 XLVII. i Fig. 1. The Flowers of the Martagon Lily' (Lilium martagon, Linn.) . [E.A.N.A., photo.] Fig. 2. The May Lily (Maianthemum conval- laria, Weber) .... [Major Dixon, photo, y J5 258 FIGURES IN THE TEXT Fig. Page I. The Leaf and Scales of the Common Alpenrose (Rhodo- dendron ferrugineum, Linn.) . . . .26 1. Transverse section of a leaf, showing the scales on the lower surface. Magnified 14 times. 2. Transverse section through a scale, on the right side of which a stoma is seen sheltered by the scale. Magnified 190 times. 3. Surface view of a scale. Magnified 190 times. II. Fruits of the Alpine Anemone (Anemone alpina, Linn.), in various stages of development. Magnified twice . 40 1. In fully-opened flower. 2. Intermediate stage. 3. The mature fruit.