Description | Bound volume containing 59 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 'Scraps'' emboldened on the front, and the number '5' written on the spine and pasted on top of a spine-length strip with hand-lettered flower names but these do not seem to relate to what is in the volume. The following plants are listed showing the page number, the common name or names, and the Latin name in brackets:
207. [Crane's Bill] (Erodium) 208. Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) 209. [Small Balsam] (Impatiens parviflora) 210. [Himalayan Balsam] (Impatiens glandulifera) 211. Orange Balsam (Impatiens fulva) 212. [Field] Maple (Acer campestre) 213. Sycamore (Acer pseudo-platanus) Also depicts twp details, one of seeds 214. Holly (Ilex aquifolium) Also depicts detail of flower 215. Holly (Ilex aquifolium) 216. Spindle Tree (Euonymus europus) 217. Spindle Tree (Euonymus europus) 218. Common Buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus) Also depicts two flower details 219. Common Buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus) 220. Alder Buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula) Also depicts two flower details 221. Alder Buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula) 222. Furze. Gorse. Whin (Ulex europus) Also depicts detail of seed 223. Dwarf Furze (Ulex nanus) 224. Dyer's Green-weed (Genista tinctoria) 225. Hairy Green-weed (Genista pilosa) Also depicts three details of flowers and pencilled note "underside of leaf" 226. Needle Greenweed. Petty Whin (Genista anglica) 227. Broom (Cytisus scoparius) 228. Restharrow (Ononis arvensis, var. repens) Also depicts detail of seed 229. Restharrow (Ononis arvensis, var. repens) 230. Sickle Medick (Medicago falcata, var. sylvestris) Also depicts three details of seed, leaf, flower 231. Lucerne (Medicago sativa) Also with pencilled note "Very plentiful on sides of railway - from Saunderton to Beaconsfield" 232. Black Medick. Nonsuch (Medicago lupulina) Also depicts detail of seed 233. Toothed Medick (Medicago denticulata) ['Druce' is written in pencil too] 234. Spotted Medick (Medicago maculata) 235. Common Melilot (Melilotus officinalis) Also depicts three details of flowers and seed 236. Field Melitot (Melilotus arvensis) 237. White Melitot (Melilotus alba) Also depicts two details of flower and seed 238. Crimson Clover (Trifolium incarnatum) 239. Hare's Foot Trefoil (Trifolium arvense) 240. Sulphur Clover (Trifolium ochroleucum) Also depicts four details, two of flowers 241. Red or Purple Clover (Trifolium pratense) 242. Zigzag or Meadow Clover (Trifolium medium) 243. SeaClover (Trifolium maritemum) 244. Knotted Clover (Trifolium striatum) 245. Rough Clover (Trifolium scabrum) 246. Subterranean Clover (Trifolium subterraneum) Also depicts two details, one of flower 247. Strawberry Clover (Trifolium fragiferum) Also depicts detail of closed flower 248. White or Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens) 249. Alsike Clover (Trifolium hybridum) ['Druce' is written in pencil too] 250. Hop Clover (Trifolium procumbens) Also depicts detail of indeterminate part of the plant 251. Lesser Clover (Trifolium minus) Also depicts detail of leaf 252. Slender Clover (Trifolium filiforme) 253. Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) 254. Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus uliginosus or corniculatus) ['Druce' is written in pencil too] 255. (Lotus siliguosus) 256. Long-podded Trefoil, Slender Trefoil (Lotus angustissimus) Also depicts detail of seed 257. Kidney Vetch, Lady's Fingers (Anthyllis vulneraria) 258. Red Ladys-fingers, Red Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria var. coccinea) 259. Purple Milk Vetch (Astragalus danicus/hypoglottis) Also depicts three details of flower, leaf, seed 260. Milkvetch (Astragalus glycyphyllos) 261. Sweet Milk Vetch (Astragalus glycyphyllus) Pencilled note: "a trailing plant" 262. Hairy Mountain Milkvetch, Purple Oxytropis (Oxytropis uralensis) 263. [Crown Vetch] (Coronella varia) Also depicts two details of stem (note: "much ribbed") and flower 264. Bird's Foot (Ornithopus perpusillus) Also depicts two details of leaves/seed pods and leaves/flower 265. [Nootka Lupine] (Lupinus Nootkatensis) 266. Horse-shoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) 267. Sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa) Also depicts a detail of indeterminate part of plant |