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Manual of the grasses of the United States.
Fine Arts Library QK495.G74 H525 1971a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hitchcock, A. S. (Albert Spear), 1865-1935.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grasses--United States--Identification.
- Grasses.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Field guides.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, maps. ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, revised by Agnes Chase.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, [1971]
- Summary:
- This work is the definitive encyclopedia of United States grass life. Compiled from the U.S. National Herbarium collection, the largest of its kind in the world, it is the only complete manual of U.S. grasses available, and one of the basic reference works on U.S. plant life. It catalogs and describes in 1,398 numbered species in 169 genera found in this country, plus 120 species in 16 genera of the so-called "waifs".
- Notes:
- Reprint of the 1950 ed.
- On spine: Peter Smith.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0486227170
- OCLC:
- 161693
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