Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Or, Gleanings from Forest, Lake and PlainCatharine Parr Traill (1802-99) was a writer, botanist and settler who emigrated from England to Canada with her husband in 1832. Both she and her sister, Susanna Moodie, became well known for their writing on settler life: Traill is also the author of The Backwoods of Canada and The Canadian Settler's Guide. This 1885 publication is the most comprehensive of her botanical works. Plants are grouped together by family and the book is divided into four sections: native flowers, flowering shrubs, forest trees and native ferns. Written to inspire the Canadian public to share her passion for the plant life of their country, the book has an engaging style where anecdotes and literary quotations appear alongside detailed descriptions and classification information. Traill's niece, Agnes Chamberlin, is the book's illustrator. A beautiful example of nineteenth-century popular botany, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the subject. |
Contents
WILD OR NATIVE FLowERs | 5 |
Blood RootSanguinarza Canadcnszs Plate I ll | 12 |
Tall AnemoneAnemone Virginiana | 18 |
White CohoshAciaza alba | 32 |
Wild GingerAsarum Canadense | 34 |
Ramshead OrchisCypripedium arietinum Plate VII | 43 |
Princes PineOltimaphila umbellata | 48 |
000 a | 55 |
FOREST TREES | 154 |
Red PineFinns resznosa | 160 |
Polyporrts pinicola | 162 |
Grey Tree Mossllmea | 168 |
American YewGround HemlockTaurus baocata var Canadensis | 174 |
OakolPalestine | 180 |
The Birch | 186 |
White AshFraxinus Americana | 191 |
Pink Water LilyNymphwa odorafa var aosea Plate VI | 62 |
Wild SarsaparillaAralia nudicaulis | 65 |
Spreading DogbaneApocynum androscemifolium 7 0 | 71 |
White Dwarf ConvolvulusColwnlvulus spithamwus | 72 |
Neglected Everlasting Gnaphalium polycephulmn | 78 |
BonesetEupatmiumperbhatum | 85 |
Common Mullein Verbascum Thapsus | 91 |
Lam bs QuartersChenopodium album | 95 |
Indian TobaccoLobelia vinflanla | 97 |
Wild RiceZizaniaaqualica | 103 |
Trailing Arbutus MayflowerEpigcea repens | 109 |
Wild Smooth GooseberryRibes oxyacanihoides | 115 |
ShadbushAmelanckier Canadensis | 117 |
Labrador TeaLedum lalifolium | 136 |
Sheepberry Sweetberry VibmnumLentago 141 | 142 |
ButternutJuglans cinerew | 193 |
Black MapleAce? nigrum | 203 |
American AspenPopulus tremuloides | 209 |
NATIVE FERNS | 220 |
Common Brake BrackenPteris aquilinal | 225 |
Ebony SpleenwortAsplenium ebeneum | 231 |
Narrowleaved Spleen0rtA splenium anguvfifolium | 232 |
Evergreen Wood FernAspidzum spinulosum var intermedium | 238 |
tica | 242 |
Christmas Fern Evergreen Rock FeznAspidium acrostichoides | 244 |
Brittle Bladder FernOystopterisjrugilis | 250 |
Cinnamon FernOsmunda cirmamomea | 257 |
Ferns Wild in Canada but not in Great Britain | 263 |
Ferns Wild in Canada and also in Great Britain but rare in the latter | 270 |
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STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE IN CANAD Catherine Parr Strickland 1802 Traill,Agnes Dunbar Moodie 1833 Chamberlin No preview available - 2016 |
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