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Mountain plants

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  • Five flowering plants, including a sedge (Carex species) and stemless gentian (Gentiana acaulis). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
  • Soldanella alpina: entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Mountain avens (Dryas geoides): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
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    Holidays on high lands, or, Rambles and incidents in search of Alpine plants / by Hugh Macmillan.

    | Date: 1869
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    Five flowering plants, including a sedge (Carex species) and stemless gentian (Gentiana acaulis). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.

    | Date: 1853 [1854] | Reference: 23769i
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    Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

    Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870. | Date: 1861 | Reference: 24543i
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    Plant life in Alpine Switzerland : being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants / by E.A. Newell Arber ... Illustrated by 48 plates of photographs from nature, and 30 figures in the text.

    Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918. | Date: 1910
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    Soldanella alpina: entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

    | Date: [1772] | Reference: 16597i
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