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Excerpt from Nantucket Wild Flowers
The illustrations are from Nantucket owers, showing, whenever possible, the variability of these island forms, as, for example, the bowed carriage of the Bush Clover (lespedeza) which holds itself erect elsewhere. The owers have been drawn their actual size. The scale, representing in every case one inch, will show which have been reduced in printing.
The illustrator has learned in this work that no ln dividual ower is a final definition of the species, the'
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