Excerpt from Flowering Plants of the Riviera: A Descriptive Account of 1800 of the More Interesting Species

I am greatly indebted to Mr. Clarence Bicknell, of Bordighera, for kindly lending me a number of his water-colour drawings of flowers for reproduction in the work. Though the reproductions are necessarily smaller than one could wish, they will greatly add to the value of the book. The little half-tone vegetation scenes are selected from a large number of photographs taken by me in 1912 and 1913. I have also to thank my friend Mr. A. G. Tansley, m.a., of Cambridge, not only for help and encouragement but for his kindness in writing an Introduction on Riviera Vegetation; and my friends Messrs. H. W. Pugsley, b.a., and C. E. Salmon, for revising the genera Fumarz'a and Slatt'ra respectively. To Mr. J. F. Duthie, b.a., I am indebted also for some help last spring on the Riviera; while Mr. Raine of Hyeres has in the past supplied me with specimens and shown me where interesting or rare plants grow in his neighbourhood. Lastly, Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, General Secretary of the Linnean Society, has always been ready to give prompt assistance from his vast store of knowledge.

The author of the charming Riviera Nature Notes (mr. Comerford-casey) said he did not confine himself to remarks about the structure and affinities of the different species; for many of the plants which surround us here have an interest other than botanical. They are connected with history, with mythology and with the outward symbolism of religion: they are enshrined in the literature of Rome and Greece and Palestine, and associated with the progress of mankind. To lose sight of this would be to do scanty justice to the subject. Because it was impossible to lengthen the present work to include many such interesting things, makes me rejoice all the more that this aspect was treated so admirably by C. C. Many useful notes on the properties of some of the plants are to be found in Professor Penzig's little Flore coloriée de poche du Littoral Méditerranéen, a book which deserves to be better illustrated.

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