Marginalia recording date and location from a copy of The Observer’s Book of British Wild Flowers. The publisher has not provided a date of publication in the book, but this second
title in the ‘Pocket Series’ first appeared in 1937, three years before the initial record. The owner has inscribed his name (illegibly) on the fly-leaf—dated 30th April 1940—two months after he began supplementing the pages with his records.
Two hundred species of plant are illustrated and described, one per page, of which eighty-two are indicated as having been observed on these one hundred and fourteen different occasions.

Traveller’s Joy


Wood Anemone


Water Crowfoot


Buttercup


Lesser Celandine


Marsh Marigold


Common Red Poppy


Greater Celandine


Lady’s Smock


Fumitory


Jack-by-the-Hedge


Charlock


Shepherd’s Purse


Milkwort


Sweet Violet


Wild Pansy


Bladder Campion


Red Campion


Greater Stitchwort


Ragged Robin


Mouse-ear Chickweed


Perforated St. John’s Wort


Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill


Common Mallow


Wood Sorrel


Broom


Lucerne


Furze


Needle-whin


Bird’s-foot Trefoil


Red Clover


Hop Trefoil


Bush Vetch


Bramble


Barren Strawberry


Silverweed


Wild Strawberry


Cinquefoil


Dog Rose


Crab Apple


Rose-bay Willow-herb


Purple Loosestrife


Hog-weed


Beaked Parsley


Moschatel


Honeysuckle


Hedge Bedstraw


Wild Teasel


Field Scabious


Daisy


Ox-eye Daisy


Scentless Mayweed


Yarrow


Coltsfoot


Groundsel


Ragwort


Hardheads


Dandelion


Nipplewort


Cross-leaved Heath


Primrose


Cowslip


Pimpernel


Lesser Periwinkle


Field Bindweed


Viper’s Bugloss


Forget-me-not


Bittersweet


Yellow Toadflax


Foxglove


Yellow Rattle


Germander Speedwell


Ground Ivy


Red Dead-nettle


Yellow Archangel


Bugle


Lamb’s-tongue Plantain


Common Sorrel


Cuckoo-pint


Spotted Orchis


Daffodil


Bluebell


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