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OPEN-AIR STUDIES IN BOTANY: SKETCHES OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS IN THEIR HOMES.
By R. LLOYD PRAEGER, B.A., M.R.I.A.
Illustrated by Drawings from Nature by S. Rosamond Praeger, and Photographs by R. Welch.
General Contents.—A Daisy-Starred Pasture—Under the Hawthorns—By the River—Along the Shingle—A Fragrant Hedgerow—A Connemara Bog—Where the Samphire grows—A Flowery Meadow—Among the Corn (a Study in Weeds)—In the Home of the Alpines—A City Rubbish-Heap—Glossary.
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"Redolent with the scent of woodland and meadow."—The Standard.