Grant Allen

Flowers and Their Pedigrees Grant Allen

These little essays originally appeared as articles in Longman s Magazine, the Cornhill Magazine, Macmillan s Magazine, the Gentleman s Magazine, and Belgravia, and I have to thank the editors and proprietors of those periodicals for kind permission to reprint them here. They are now offered to the public as a first instalment of a work which I hope some day more fully to carry out a Functional Companion to the British Flora. We know by this time pretty well what our English wild flowers are like :we want to know next why they are just what they are, and how they came to be so. G. A. Lyme, Dorset : J uly 1883.
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