A Rare Botanical Legacy
Essay by David Rains Wallace, Edited by Rick Bennett and Susan Calla (2009)
$35, Hardcover
In 1936, a chance meeting with Willis Linn Jepson led to a 10-year collaboration between the renowned California botanist, an amateur botanist named Ruby Van Deventer who was on a mission to document the flora of Del Norte County. This book features 120 watercolor paintings of plants specific to Del Norte County and represents forty years of work completed Ruby and her artist husband, Arthur. Arthur painted plants while Ruby (and Jepson) busied themselves with describing the plants growing in this region of northern California. Arthur’s paintings are simple compared to the level of detail seen in contemporary botanical art, yet their simplicity does not take away from the fact that they served both Jepson and Ruby well and continue to serve as visual records of Del Norte plants. This book will appeal to anyone interested in botanical art history and to anyone interested in getting a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes work that went into creating California’s Jepson Manual.
Flowering Plants
Armen Takhtajan
$269, Hardcover
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Publisher’s Comments:
Armen Takhtajan is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants. This book culminates almost sixty years of the scientist’s research of the origin and classification of the flowering plants. Flowering plants are divided into two classes: class Magnoliopsida (or Dicotyledons) includes 8 subclasses, 126 orders, c. 440 families, almost 10,500 genera, and no less than 195,000 species; and class Liliopsida (or Monocotyledons) includes 4 subclasses, 31 orders, 120 families, more than 3,000 genera, and about 65,000 species. This book contains a detailed description of plant orders and descriptive keys to plant families providing characteristic features of the families and their differences. This book will appeal to botanists and students working or studying at universities and botanical gardens.
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