The National Geographic Society - The Book of Wild Flowers: Color Plates of 250 Wild Flowers and Grasses

Copyright Copyright 2020 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 2020, reproduces all of the 120 color plates by Mary E. Eaton and the 8 plates by E. J. Geske previously published in The Book of Wild Flowers by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., in 1924.

For this edition, the 8 plates on black backgrounds by E. J. Geske have been combined and printed as Plates 58 and 59. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: National Geographic Society (U.S.), author. | Eaton, Mary E., illustrator. Title: The book of wild flowers: color plates of 250 wild flowers and grasses / National Geographic Society; plates by Mary E.

Eaton and E. J. Geske. Description: Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2020. | This Dover edition, first published in 2020, reproduces all of the 120 color plates by Mary E. J. J.

Geske previously published in The Book of Wild Flowers by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., in 1924. Identifiers: LCCN 2019054626 | ISBN 9780486840949 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: FlowersUnited States. | Wild flowersUnited States. | GrassesUnited States. Classification: LCC QK115 .N3 2020 | DDC 582.130973dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054626 Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications 84094801 www.doverpublications.com 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 2020 English botanical artist Mary Emily Eaton (18731961) contributed the 120 pages of flower paintings for the original 1924 edition of The Book of Wild Flowers while she was employed by The New York Botanical Garden. At the time, National Geographic Magazine editor William Joseph Showalter praised her as one of the greatest of living wild flower painters, stating that she has not only painted the likeness of the flowers with the highest botanical accuracy, but she has been able also to put the very soul of the plants into her paintings.

In his Foreword to the 1924 edition, Showalter writes that Erich John Geskes (18731934) eight paintings of the flowers of familiar grasses as a microscope reveals them, show how blind our eyes are to a thousand beauties of Nature, and teach us that sharp eyes find rich nuggets of interest everywhere. This Dover edition reproduces 250 representative species of wild flowers on 122 plates. MAZZARD (Lower) Prunus avium L. Almond Family BLACK CHERRY (Upper) Prunus serotina Ehrh. Almond Family HAIRY RUELLIA Ruellia ciliosa Pursh Acanthus Family PLATE 1 AMERICAN PLUM Prunus americana Marsh. Almond Family PLATE 2 PEACH BLOSSOM Amygdalus persica L. ALMOND FAMILY Delaware State Flower COMMON AMARANTH Amaranthus hybridus L. AMARANTH FAMILY PLATE 3 GOLDEYE-GRASS Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville AMARYLLIS FAMILY WESTERN SPIDERLILY Hymenocallis occidentalis (Le Conte) Kunth AMARYLLIS FAMILY PLATE 4 APPLE and BLOSSOM Malus sylvestris Mill. APPLE FAMILY Arkansas and Michigan State Flower PLATE 5 DOWNY SHADBLOW (Upper) Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medic. APPLE FAMILY AMERICAN MOUNTAIN-ASH (Lower) Sorbus americana Marsh. APPLE FAMILY PLATE 6 RED CHOKEBERRY Aronia arbutifolia (L.) Ell. Apple Family CHOKEBERRIES Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Britton (Upper)Aronia atropurpurea Britton (Lower) Apple Family PLATE 7 DOWNY HAWTHORN Crataegus mollis (T. & G.) Scheele Apple Family Missouri State Flower FLESHY HAWTHORN Crataegus succulenta Schrader Apple Family PLATE 8 JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Torr. ARUM FAMILY PLATE 9 SKUNK CABBAGE Spathyema foetida (L.) Raf. ARUM FAMILY PLATE 10 SWEETFLAG Acorus calamus L. Arum Family GOLDENCLUB Orontium aquaticum L. Arum Family PLATE 11 OXEYE DAISY Chrysanthemum leucanthemum L. Aster Family North Carolina State Flower SAGEBRUSH Artemisia tridentata Nutt. Aster Family Nevada State Flower NEW YORK ASTER Aster novibelgi L. Aster Family PLATE 12