SUMMER FLOWERS OF THE HIGH ALPS
CIRCIUM SPINOSISSIMUM. SCOP.
The Spiny Fuller’s Thistle. LeChardon le plus épineux. StachligeKratzdistel.
Frontispiece,see page 50.
SUMMER FLOWERS
OF
THE HIGH ALPS
BY
SOMERVILLE HASTINGS
M.S.
AUTHOR OF “ALPINE PLANTS AT HOME,” SERIES I. AND II.
ILLUSTRATED BY REPRODUCTIONS
FROM DIRECT COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS
BY THE AUTHOR
LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS, Ltd.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
The coloured plates of Alpine plants, which are the specialfeature of this book, are all reproduced from colour photographstaken directly from nature. The plants were allphotographed exactly as they were found, with two exceptions,in the immediate neighbourhood of Rosenlaui in theBernese Oberland during the month of July 1909; so thatthe pictures are true portraits of the flowers “at home.”
The Lumière process of colour photography which wasused, depends on the action of light on a photographic plateafter its passage through various coloured starch grains.The process is entirely beyond the control of the operator,and the exact colours are automatically reproduced. Thesephotographs have in turn been carefully reproduced for thiswork by the three colour process.
The flowers here photographed were selected as goodexamples of common and typical species; and, of course,they represent but a very small portion of the rich flora ofSwitzerland. The present volume is intended as a shortintroduction to the subject, for the fuller study of which thefollowing works are recommended:—
A. Gremli, “The Flora of Switzerland.” Translatedby Paitson.
A. W. Bennett, “The Flora of the Alps.”
G. Hoffmann, “Alpine Flora.” Translated by E. S.Barton.
L. and C. Schröter, “Coloured Vade-mecum to theAlpine Flora.”
C. Schröter, “Das Pflanzenleben der Alpen.”
F. E. Hulme, “Familiar Swiss Flowers.”
“Hints and Notes for Travellers in the Alps,” being theGeneral Introduction to Ball’s Alpine Guide.
They have all been freely referred to in the preparationof the accompanying notes.
Wherever possible the common name of each plant inEnglish, French, and German has been given o