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Plants and Flowers: 1761 Illustrations for Artists and Designers (Dover Pictorial Archive) Paperback – September 8, 1992
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Each illustration has been carefully selected from botanical archives for its scientific accuracy, artistic style, and suitability for reproduction. The plants and flowers are grouped by kind, uses, and habitats into seventeen categories, among them aquatic plants, carnivorous plants, grasses, rushes and sedges, orchids, ornamental plants, plants of commerce, mushrooms, molds and lichens, ferns, mosses, trees, shrubs, weeds, wildflowers, and vines. For easy and accurate reference, both common and botanical Latin names are given for each species whenever possible. All names have been compiled into two convenient indexes.
Alan E. Bessette, Professor of Biology at Utica College of Syracuse University, is a well-known naturalist, botanical photographer, and author of numerous books and field guides on botanical subjects. William K. Chapman, a biology teacher and member of the adjunct faculty at Utica College, is a well-known speaker and writer on the gathering of wild foods, and the author of field guides to plants and animals of the Adirondacks.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDover Publications
- Publication dateSeptember 8, 1992
- Dimensions9 x 0.75 x 12 inches
- ISBN-100486269574
- ISBN-13978-0486269573
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Each illustration has been carefully selected from botanical archives for its scientific accuracy, artistic style, and suitability for reproduction. The plants and flowers are grouped by kind, uses, and habitats into seventeen categories, among them aquatic plants, carnivorous plants, grasses, rushes and sedges, orchids, ornamental plants, plants of commerce, mushrooms, molds and lichens, ferns, mosses, trees, shrubs, weeds, wildflowers, and vines. For easy and accurate reference, both common and botanical Latin names are given for each species whenever possible. All names have been compiled into two convenient indexes.
Alan E. Bessette, Professor of Biology at Utica College of Syracuse University, is a well-known naturalist, botanical photographer, and author of numerous books and field guides on botanical subjects. William K. Chapman, a biology teacher and member of the adjunct faculty at Utica College, is a well-known speaker and writer on the gathering of wild foods, and the author of field guides to plants and animals of the Adirondacks.
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- Publisher : Dover Publications (September 8, 1992)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0486269574
- ISBN-13 : 978-0486269573
- Item Weight : 1.74 pounds
- Dimensions : 9 x 0.75 x 12 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,117,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #373 in Graphic Design Clip Art (Books)
- #651 in Flowers in Biological Sciences
- #916 in Illustration and Graphic Design
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