Abstract
THE biologist always looks askance at “beautiful coloured plates” of biological material, for, unlike the hand paintings of flowers housed at Kew, scientific accuracy is almost invariably either disregarded or masked in the striving for artistic effect. None of these series of coloured plates, however, should be placed in the usual category of coloured diagrams of plant and animal subjects. In general, they are very accurate, and though they show little but the identity and general structure of the plants they portray, they are to be highly commended, since all the plants are pictured on a background representing their normal habitat. There is little fault to find with accuracy in this connexion, except that few botanists would agree that the usual habitat of the white deadnettle is “ruins and rocks”.
British Wild Flowers.
By Louis Johnstone. First Series. 16 plates + 16 diagrams. Second Series. 16 plates + 16 diagrams. British Trees. By Barbara Briggs. Second Series. 16 plates + 16 diagrams. (London: The Lutterworth Press, 1933.) 3s. 6d. net each set.
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British Wild Flowers. Nature 133, 84 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133084b0
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