The colours of flowers [microform] : as illustrated in British flora
Grant Allen's 1882 London study The colours of flowers, a popular natural-history treatise on flower colour in British flora, published by Macmillan for general readers. The pictures are black-and-white botanical line drawings of flower parts in section, showing stamens, petals, pistils and sepals in close detail. A designer could draw on their precise, hatched line work for organic botanical motifs, diagrams or scientific plate styling.
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