Evening star., 1934-04-29
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Wild Flowers.

Wild Flowers.
The Palisades Of the Potomac, the
woods and meadows of Maryland and
Virginia are starred with wild flowers
these days, but identification Is not
always easy. For the amateur bot
anist who wants to know what he Is
seeing the Public Library has prepared
the following selected list, including
Q few not too technical works on bot
any.
Flowers Of Field and Wood.
Name This Flower: a Simple Way Of
Finding out the Names Of Common
Plants Without Any Previous
knowledge Of Botany, BY CASTOR
BONNER. 1917. C-B646n.
Special attention is drawn to M.
Bonnier's method of finding out the
names Of plants without troubling
about their classification: to the in
dex Of the English botanical names Of
ton to agriculture, industrial uses,
and herbal medicine"
Field Book Of American Trees and
Shrubs, by F. s. Mathews. 1915.
NX.M42f.
There is very considerable num-
Der of native trees and shrubs
many Of which are not as well known
as they should be. This book Is
intended, therefore, not only to fur
nish the reader with means for iden-
tihying such species, but to demon
strate certain truths relative to form
and color which are more within the
province Of the artist than the bot
anist and which naturally do not ap-
pear In text books on botany"
Field Book Of American Wild Flow
ers; Being a Short Description Of
Their Character and Habits, a Con-
else Definition of Their Colors, and
Incidental References to the In
sects Which Assist in Their Ferti-
hzation, by F. s. Mathews. 1929.
NR.M422f.
Contains 30 color plates and over
300 line drawings.
The Book of Wild Flowers; an Intro
duction to the Ways Of Plant Life,
Together With Biographies OF $50
Representative Species and Chap
ters on Our State Flowers and Fa-
miliar Grasses, published by the
National Geographic Society. 1924.
NRN216.
Has especially fine color illustra-
tions.
The Flower Finder. by G. L. Walton.
1914. NW.W176f.
"The study of wild flowers .
gives one a tangible interest In the
open, and displaces the familiar wor-
ries by substituting a new and stim-
ulating interest"
Localities.
Guide to the Flora Of Washington and
Vicinity, by L. F. Ward. 1881.
N859W21g.
An old book but still most useful as
the wild flowers of a region change
but little through the years. Not
Illustrated.
Flora Of Richmond and Vicinity, by
P. A. Merriman. 1896. N863. MSS.
A handy book for the tourist or va
cationiSt in Virginia.
Guide to Paths in the Blue Ridge,
published by the Potomac Appa-
lachian Trail Club. 1881. G86 .P84.
Has chapters on "One Hundred
Flowers Of the Northern Blue Ridge"
and Fifty Trees Of the Appalachian
Trail"
Odd Species.
The Fern Allies of North America
North Of Mexico, by w. N. Clute.
1928. ND.C628f.
Devoted to the unusual species of
moses which are ordinarily incon-
spicuous, but which figure largely In
Christmas decorations.
Field Book Of the Common Ferns. by
Herbert Durand. 1928. ND.D93.
Here are so fascinating families Of
the wild, whose ancestry antedates
Adam by unnumbered cons"
Our Wild Orchids, by Frank Morris
and E. A. Eames. 1929. NR.M83.
ITO see yellow lady slipper among
bellworts and trilliums or a butterfly
orchid side by side with a Turks cap
lily . = you would never guess they
were cousins. Yet so it Is"
The Romance Of the Fungus World. by
r. T. and F. w. Rolfe. 1925.
ND.R64.
Though by most people little
known or regarded, the toadstools and
their allies concern mankind, in many
Of his daily doings, not only init
mately, but also enormously"
For the Student Who Wants to
"Botanize."
Gray's New Manual Of Botany; .
Handbook Of the Flowering Plants