Research Catalog

Title

How to know the wild flowers : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild flowers / by Mrs. William Starr Dana ; illustrated by Marion Satterlee.

Author

Parsons, Frances Theodora, 1861-1952

Publication

New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1895.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Satterlee, Marion
• Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944

Description

xvii, 373 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Considered the first field guide to American wild flowers when first published in 1893, this revised and enlarged edition contains 156 plates and provides botanical details and lore for nearly five hundred flowering plants personally observed by the author in parts of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., along with a few found outside this range and east of Chicago. The listings are grouped by color of flower.

Uniform Title

Harvard Botany Libraries preservation microfilm project ; 00424.

Subject

Wild flowers > Northeastern States > Identification

Genre/Form

• Guidebooks
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) – United States.
• Signed bindings (Binding) – Armstrong – 1895.

Note

• Includes indexes.
• 156 plates included in pagination of text.
• Binding, signed MA, designed by Margaret Armstrong

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 4705617
• SCSB-11167994

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library