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SO far as coloured illustrations are concerned, this most recent addition to the “New Naturalist” series is probably the most successful. They consist of fifty-three colour photographs by John Markham, Brian Perkins, F. Ballard and others. The close-up photographs of yew, black bryony and hawthorn in fruit and the ground pine in flower are excellent : that of the fleabane is not so good, the foliage being badly blurred and the flower-heads not very distinct. Moreover, the colour of the close-up of fritillaries has registered rather badly. Perhaps the most beautiful of all the plates is that of bluebells. Among the more distant views attention should be directed to that depicting heather in the fore- and middle-grounds with Scots pine in the background, and that depicting dandelions.
British Plant Life
By Dr. W. B. Turrill. (New Naturalist Series.) Pp. xvii + 315 + 72 plates. (London and Glasgow: Wm. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1948.) 21s. net.
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BRIMBLE, L. British Plant Life. Nature 162, 676–677 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162676a0
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