How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers: A Key to the Flora of the Temperate Regions of Western Australia: Part I by W E Blackall and edited by B J Grieve

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to foredges. Foxing to top foredges, front preliminary pages and last few pages at back. Dust jacket is in fair condition with marks and tears to edges. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective cover.

First handbook of wildflowers in Western Australia Part 1.

The plants of Western Australia are unusual and fascinating, but their names and characters have remained unknown to all but a few specialists. In this book, over 2,800 species are included in 321 pages of illustrated script. The line drawings are supplemented by 16 beautifully reproduced plates showing 61 plants in natural colour, along with an illustrated glossary together with indices of common and scientific names. The editor's chapter 'How to use this book' explains how to apply the keys to identify an unknown plant.

The book was commenced by Dr W. E. Blackall, a great amateur botanist, in the years up until his death in 1941, and later completed by Dr B. J. Grieve, the head of UWA's botany department.