
Summer Flowers of the High Alps
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Excerpt from Summer Flowers of the High AlpsThe Lumiere process of colour photography which was used, depends on the action of light on a photographic plate after its passage through various coloured starch grains. The process is entirely beyond the control of the operator, and the exact colours are automatically reproduced. These photographs have in turn been carefully reproduced for this work by the three colour process.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important h...
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- SUMMER FLOWERS OF THE HIGH ALPS
- Preface
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- The Narcissus-Flowered Anemone (ANEMONE NARCISSIFLORA)
- The Globe Flower (TROLLIUS EUROPÆUS)
- The Common Monk’s-Hood (ACONITUM NAPELLUS)
- The Yellow Wolf’s-Bane (ACONITUM LYCOCTONUM)
- The Two-Flowered Violet (VIOLA BIFLORA)
- The Long-Spurred Pansy (VIOLA CALCARATA)
- The Box-Leaved Milkwort (POLYGALA CHAMÆBUXUS)
- The Creeping Gypsophila (GYPSOPHILA REPENS)
- The Moss Campion or Cushion Pink (SILENE ACAULIS)
- The Wood Geranium (GERANIUM SYLVATICUM)
- The Alpine Clover (TRIFOLIUM ALPINUM)
- The Brown Clover (TRIFOLIUM BADIUM)
- The Cold Mountain-Lentil (PHACA FRIGIDA)
- The Dull-Flowered Sweet Clover or Alpine Sainfoin (HEDYSARUM OBSCURUM)
- The White Dryas (DRYAS OCTOPETALA)
- The Alpine Rose (ROSA ALPINA)
- Fleischer’s Willow-Herb (EPILOBIUM FLEISCHERI)
- The Mountain House-Leek (SEMPERVIVUM MONTANUM)
- Sempervivum Funckii
- The Evergreen Saxifrage (SAXIFRAGA AIZOIDES)
- The Large Astrantia (ASTRANTIA MAJOR)
- The Alpine Starwort or Alpine Aster (ASTER ALPINUS)
- The Cat’s-Foot, Mountain Everlasting or Mountain Cudweed (ANTENNARIA DIOICA)
- The Arnica (ARNICA MONTANA)
- The Spiny Fuller’s Thistle (CIRCIUM SPINOSISSIMUM)
- The Round-Headed Rampion (PHYTEUMA ORBICULARE)
- The Bearded Bell-flower or Campanula (CAMPANULA BARBATA)
- The Dwarf Hair-Bell or Bell-Flower (CAMPANULA PUSILLA)
- The Hairy-Leaved Alpenrose (RHODODENDRON HIRSUTUM)
- The Lesser Winter-Green (PYROLA MINOR)
- The Stemless Gentian (GENTIANA ACAULIS)
- The Short-Leaved Gentian (GENTIANA BRACHYPHYLLA)
- The Alpine Toad-Flax (LINARIA ALPINA)
- The Alpine Balsam (ERINUS ALPINUS)
- The Leafy Lousewort (PEDICULARIS FOLIOSA)
- The Yellow Auricula (PRIMULA AURICULA)
- The Marsh Orchis (ORCHIS LATIFOLIA)
- The Lady’s Slipper (CYPRIPEDIUM CALCEOLUS)
- The White Veratrum (VERATRUM ALBUM)
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