Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
The coloured plates of Alpine plants, which are the special feature of this book, are all reproduced from colour photographs taken directly from nature. The plants were all photographed exactly as they were found, with two exceptions, in the immediate neighbourhood of Rosenlau...
While many of the characteristics of Alpine flowers are to be explained as a direct result of the conditions of life at high altitudes, it is probable that the process of natura...
4. Part 4The Evergreen Saxifrage is one of the most abundant. It grows in moist rocky places, at the foot of glaciers, and on the banks of mountain streams and waterfalls. It ascends to...
5. Part 5It is often quite a difficult matter to distinguish between the Stemless Gentian, here illustrated, and the Carved Gentian (_Gentiana excisa_), not only because the two plants a...
3. Part 3The Creeping Gypsophila is a perennial plant with a woody stem, from which branches arise bearing the narrow strap-shaped leaves and pale crowded flowers. It is found in all the...
1. Part 1The coloured plates of Alpine plants, which are the special feature of this book, are all reproduced from colour photographs taken directly from nature. The plants were all phot...
6. Part 6