Author: SUMMERHAYES, V.S.,
Title: Wild Orchids of Britain with a key to the species. Reprinted [revised edition].
Description: London, Collins, 1976. Stout 8°. Original cloth, gilded title on spine, dustjacket. (xviii), 366pp. Numerous captioned coloured and monochrome illustrations on 36 photoplates, numerous captioned figures in text after drawings, captioned maps illustrating the distribution of most of native species on pp. 346-356 [after Atlas of the British Flora], key to species, index, glossary, bibliography, table of contents. [The New Naturalist]. Detailed and rivised survey. Still a standardwork. Very good copy, WITH dustjacket (inside edges of dustjacket laminated by sellotape).

Keywords: orchids orchideacea british naturalhistory floweringplants species genera wild savage british survey botany distribution