About this ebook
Now published in ebook format, with a complete set of new distribution maps from the Atlas of the British Flora, this beautiful book remains the standard work in its subject, a treasure for all lovers of wild plants. Dr. Dummerhayes, in charge of the orchid collection at Kew from 1924 to 1964, looks at our fifty-odd species in relation to the vast orchid family throughout the world, discusses their general biology and natural history in Britain, gives a detailed account of all our orchid species, varieties and hybrids, and provides a useful key to identification.
The colour photographs represent every known British species with the exception of Orchis cruenta and O. occidentalis.
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About the author
( 1897–1974). Botanist and herbarium curator. Doyen of orchids, in charge of orchid herbarium at Kew for 39 years, 1924–64. Expert on African and Polynesian, as well as British, Orchidacaea and established Kew as world centre on the family. OBS (1950). In 1920s, one of the pioneer ecologists, taking part in Oxford Spitsbergen expedition 1921, on which he wrote papers with W.S. Elton. Active member of British Ecological Society, treasurer 1938–57.
