Description | Bound volume containing 38 watercolour paintings of flowering plants, mostly British, as well as labels and details of the date and location that the flower was found. The bound volume has 'Album'' emboldened on the front, and the number '4' written on the spine. Broken part of spine inserted inside front cover reads "Vetches". The following plants are listed showing the page number, the common name or names, and the Latin name in brackets:
168. Blinks - Water Chickweed (Montia fontana) 169. Tamarisc (Tamarix gallica) 170. Large-flowered St John's Wort (Hypericum calycinum) 171. Tutsan (Hypericum androsoemum) 172. Common St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) 173. Square-stalked St John's Wort (Hypericum quadrangulum) 174. Trailing St John's Wort (Hypericum humifusum) 175. Flax-leaved Hypericum (Hypericum linarifolium) 176. Slender St John's Wort (Hypericum pulchrum) 177. Slender St John's Wort (Hypericum pulcrum) ['Shade grown. Druce.' is written in pencil too] 178. Mountain St John's Wort (Hypericum montanum) 179. Marsh St John's Wort (Hypericum elodes) ['Druce' is written in pencil too] 180. Pale Flax (Linum angustifolium) 181. Cathartic or Purging Flax (Linum catharticum) 182. Allseed (Radiola millegrana) 183. Tree Mallow (Lavatera arborea) 184. Dwarf Mallow (Malva rotundifolia) [Illegible pencilled note "Also at..."] 185. Common Mallow (Malva sylvestris) Also depicts furled flower with note "Calix numerously ? - very hairy." 186. Musk Mallow (Malva moschata) 187. Marsh Mallow (Althæa officinalis) 188. Lime Tree (Tilia europa) 189. Pencilled Geranium (Geranium striatum) ['Hogg & Johnson say: "Doubtful native. Has been found at Frimby between Workington & Maryport, Cumberland. Also near Penzance & St Austell, Cornwall. Also in Bitton Wood."'] [Pencilled note: "Very common at Penzance"] 190. [Knotted Cranesbill] (Geranium nodosum) 191. Blood-red Cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum) 192. [Cranesbill] (Geranium lancastriense) 193. Dusky Geranium (Geranium phum) ['Druce' is written in pencil too] 194. Meadow Crane's Bill (Geranium pratense) 195. Meadow Geranium (Geranium pratense) 196. Mountain Crane's Bill (Geranium pyrenaicum) 197. Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum) Also depicts two details of flower bud. 198. Shining Crane's Bill (Geranium lucidum) [Faint pencilled note: "Variable plant: On stony & poor soil, a few inches & creeping. On favourable soil. 1 & 2 feet climbing upwards"] Also depicts two details, one of leaf with note "leaves 5-lobed, shiny" 199. Dove's Foot Crane's Bill (Geraniium molle) 200. Small-flowered Geranium (Geranium pusillum) 201. Round-leaved Geranium (Geranium rotundifolium) Also depicts two details of seeds 202. Jagged-leaved Crane's Bill (Geranium dissectum) [Faint illegible pencilled note "Also at..."] 203. Long-stalked Geranium (Geranium columbinum) 204. Hemlock Stork's Bill (Erodium cicutarium) 205. Hemlock Stork's Bill (Erodium cicutarium. Var. pimpinellifolium) Also depicts detail of flower with note: "a green spot or scale with white margin & dark veined centre at base of two petals only." ['Druce' is written in pencil too] 206. Sea Stork's Bill (Erodium maritimum) |