THE NATIVE FLOWERS AND FERNS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Thomas Meehan & Louis Prang.
ILLUSTRATED BY CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS Boston:
1879-81 Four Volumes 192 Chromolithograph Plates
The set, which I am offering at this time, is too handsome to break apart for the prints. Each of the 192 exquisite chromolithographs is on heavy paper without any text on the back. These stunning full paged Botanicals measures 7 ¼" x 10". All are free of foxing and spotting so often found. An apparent error during the original binding process duplicated pages 165-180 and plates 41-44 in Series II Volume I. Unfortunately the duplication replaced pages 21-36. Therefore, lacking plate #s 5-8.The overall size of each book is 8" x 10 ½". The marbled edged pages are tightly held, and the chromolithograph prints are clean and bright. A most attractive rare four-volume set with five raised bands along the spine. Contemporary three quarter gilt calf and marbled boards. Armorial bookplate in each volume. ITEM # NFF-4VOLPRICE $1,550.00
Thomas Meehan was an Englishman, trained at Kew, who moved to Germantown Pennsylvania in 1853, where he spent the rest of his life running a nursery and editing various periodicals. He was the Editor of The Gardener’s Monthly.Together with well known artist-printer Louis Prang, they published The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in 1878.This is Meehan’s masterwork, and one of the leading authorities on ferns in America. It is also a notable 19th century American color plate book, issued by Louis Prang of Boston, the leading chromolithographer of the period.TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 5783. McGRATH, pp145-46. BENNRTT, p.75.
SERIES I VOL. I
1 TRADESCANTIA VIRGINICA Spiderwort
2 GEUM TRIFLORUM Three-Flowered Avens
3 GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS Carolina Jasmine, or Yellow Jasmine
4 POLYPODIUM INCANUM Hoary Polypody
5 VIOLA CUCULLATA Common Blue Violet
6 ANEMONE NEMOROSA Wind-Flower, or Wood Anemone
7 AQUILEGIA CHRYSANTHA Golden Columbine
8 PACHYSANDRA PROCUMBENS American Thick-Stamen
9 HELONIAS BULLATA Stud-Flower
10 CAREX STRICTA Tussock-Sedge
11 CUPHEA VISCOSISSIMA Blue Wax-Weed
12 THALICTRUM DIOICUM Early Meadow-Rue
13 ANEMONE PATENS, var. NUTTALLIANA Nuttalls Pasque-Flower
14 ORCHIS SPECTABILIS Showy Orchis, or Preacher in the Pulpit
15 SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDUS Skunk Cabbage
16 PEDICULARIS CANADENSIS Common Wood-Betony
17 ERYTHRONIUM AMERICANUM Yellow Dog-Tooth Violet
18 PHLOX SUBULATA Moss-Pink
19 SAXIFRAGA VIRGINIENSIS Early White Saxifrage
20 ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI Bear-Berry
21 TEPHROSIA VIRGINIANA Virginian Goats Rue, or Hoary Pea
22 SEDUM NEVII Nevius Stone-Crop
23 PLANTANTHERA FIMBRIATA Great Fringed Orchis
24 LIMNANTHEMUM LACUNOSUM Floating Heart
25 HOUSTONIA CARULEA Bluets
26 VIOLA PEDATA Birds-Foot Violet
27 CALLA PALUSTRIS Bog-Arum
28 EUPHORBIA COROLLATA Flowering Spurge
29 POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA Shrubby Cinque-Foil
30 LINUM PERENNE Perennial Flax
31 XANTHOSOMA SAGITTIFOLIA Arrow-Leaved Spoonflower
32 CASSANDRA CALYCULATA Leather-Leaf, or Cassandra
33 VIOLA SAGITTATA Arrow-Leaved Violet
34 GERARDIA PEDICULARIA Fern-Leaved False Foxglove
35 CALOCHORTUS LUTEUS Yellow Pretty-Grass
36 IRIS VERSICOLOR Blue Flag
37 POGONIA OPHIOGLOSSOIDES Snake-Mouth
38 CLEOME PUNGENS Prickly Cleome, or Spider-Flower
39 ACTINOMERIS SQUARROSA Squarrose Actinomeris
40 CLAYTONIA VIRGINICA Spring-Beauty, or notch-Petalled Claytonia
41 ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES English Maiden-Hair, or Dwarf Spleenwort
42 ANEMONE CAROLINIANA Carolina Anemone
43 ROSA CAROLINA Swamp Rose
44 PACHYSTIMA CANBYI Canbys Mountain-Lover
45 SPIRANTHES CERNUA Drooping-Flowered Ladies traces
46 PHLOX REPTANS Crawling Phlox
47 CHRYSOPSIS MARIANA Maryland golden Star
48 IRIS VIRGINICA Boston Iris
SERIES I VOL. II
1 HIBISCUS COCCINEUS American Scarlet Rose-Mallow
2 CALLIRRHOE INVOLUCRATA Purple Poppy-Mallow
3 CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA Bluebell of Scotland
4 MARSILIA QUADRIFOLIA Four-Leaved Marsilia
5 SILENE VIRGINICA Virginia Catchfly
6 VITIS INDIVISA Entire-Leaved Ivy-Grape
7 IPOMOEA LEPYOPHYLLA Colorado Man-Root
8 ANTENNARIA PLANTAGINIFOLIA Mouse-Ear Everlasting
9 ROSA LUCIDA Dwarf Wild Rose
10 HELENIUM TENUIFOLIUM Slender-Leaved Sneezewort
11 SCUTELLARIA WRIGHTII Wrights Skullcap
12 SILENE STELLATA Starry Campion, or Catchfly
13 STOKESIA CYANEA Blue Stokesia
14 TALINUM TERETIFOLIUM Terete Talium; Fame-Flower
15 LYSIMACHIA QUADRIFOLIA Four-Leaved Loosestrife
16 RHEXIA VIRGINICA Meadow Beauty
17 ASPLENIUM PARVULUM Smaller Ebony Spleenwort
18 AMARYLLIS ATAMASCO Atamasco Lily
19 MIMULUS JAMESII Jamees Monkey-Flower
20 BRODLEA GRANDIFLORA Large-Flowered California Hyacinth
21 VERBENA AUBLETIA Aublets Verbena
22 HYPOXIS ERECTA Star-Grass
23 RUELLIA CILIOSA Long-Tubed Ruellia
24 EPIPHEGUS VIRGINIANA Beech-Drops
25 IPOMOEA LACUNOSA White-Star Ipomoea
26 CALOPOGON PULCHELLUS Grass-Pink
27 ORONTIUM AQUATICUM Golden Club
28 VACCINIUM MAROCARPON American Cranberry
29 HELENIUM AUTUMNALE Autumn Sneezewort
30 THALICTRUM ANEMONOIDES Wind-Flower Meadow-Rue
31 VERNONIA NOVEBORACENSIS Iron-Weed: Flat-Top
32 PYROLA ELIPTICA Wintergreen; Shin-Leaf
33 ECHINOCACTUS POLYCEPHALUS Many-Headed Hedgehog Cactus
34 PARONYCHIA ARGYROCOMA Silverhead; Nailwort
35 GYMNOLOMIA PORTERI Stone-Mountain Star
36 EPIDENDRUM CONOPSEUM Bartrams Tree-Orchis
37 HELIANTHUS MAXIMILIANI Maximilians Sunflower
38 ASPIDIUM ACROSTICHOIDES Christmas Shield-Fern
39 POLYGONUM ARIFOLIUM Halberd-Leaved Tear-Thumb
40 MEDEOLA VIRGINICA Indian Cucumber
41 POLYPODIUM VULGARE Common Polypody
42 COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS Collinsons Flower
43 PHASEOLUS DIVERSIFOLIUS Diverse-Leaved Kidney-Bean
44 UVULARIA SESSILIFOLIA Sessile-Leaved Bell-Wort
45 ASPLENIUM EBENEUM Ebony Spleenwort
46 GAILLARDIA AMBLYODON Blunt-tooth Blanketflower
47 ANDROMEDA MARIANA Stagger-Bush
48 CERASTIUM ARVENSE Field Mouse-Ear Chickweed
SERIES II VOL. I
1 SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII Drummond's Picture Plant
2 ENGELMANNIA PINNATIFIDA Cut-leaved Engelmann Flower
3 DIPLOPAPPUS LINARIFOLIUS Sand-paper Star Wort
4 ONOCLEA SENSIBILIS Sensitive Fern
5 SARRACENIA PSITTACINA Parrot-headed Pitcher Plant
6 LILIUM CANADENSE American Yellow Lily
7 SOLANUM TORREYI Torrey's Solanum
8 POLYPODIUM CALIFORNICUM California polypody
9 SARRACENIA RUBRA Red-flowered TrumpetLeaf-Walter's Sarracenia
10 IMPATIENS FULVA Spotted Touch-me-not, or Sap-weed
11 IRIS VERNA Spring Iris
12 WOODSIA OBTUSA Common Woodsia
13 PHACELIA BIPINNATIFIDA Bipinnate Phacelia
14 RUDBECKIA FULGIDA Brilliant Cone Flower
15 CYPRIPEDIUM ACAULE Stemless Moccasin Flower
16 CAMPTOSORUS RHIZOPHYLLUS Walking Leaf
17 POLEMONIUM REPTAN Creeping Greek Valerian
18 CYPRIPEDIUM PUBESCENS Large Yellow Moccasin Flower
19 EUPHORBIA MARGINATA Snow on the Mountain
20 ASPIDIUM FRAGRANS Sweet Shield Fern
21 ERIGERON BELLIDIFOLIUM Poor Robin's Plantain
22 PINGUICULA LUTEA Yellow Butterwort
23 ANEMONE VIRGINIANA Tall Anemone.-Thimble Weed
24 CHEILANTHES VESTITA Hairy Lip Fern
25 IRIS MISSOURIENSIS ROCKY MOUNTAIN IRIS
26 SOLIDAGO ULMIFOLIA Elm-Leaved Golden Rod
27 SICYOS ANGULATUS Star Cucumber
28 ASPLENIUM EBENOIDES Scott's Spleenwort
29 COMMELYNA VIRGINICA Common Day Flower
30 NYMPHAEA FLAVA Audubon's Yellow Water Lily
31 CROOMIA PAUCIFLORA Few-flowered Croomia
32 ASPIDIUM NEVADENSE Sierra Nevada Shield Fern
33 NYMPHAEA ODORATA Sweet-scented Water Lily
34 LOBELIA FEAYANA Dr. Feay's Lobelia
35 CYNTHIA DANDELION The Dandelion Cynthia
36 CERATOPTERIS THALICTROIDES The Horned Fern
37 ARISAEMA TRIPHYLLUM Three-leaved Indian Turnip
38 GERANIUM MACULATUM Spotted Crane's-bill
39 OENOTHERA MISSOURIENSIS Large-fruited Evening Primrose
40 ASPIDIUM MUNITUM Chamisso's Shield Fern
41 STENOSIPHON VIRGATUS The Stenosiphon
42 ANDROSTEPHIUM VIOLACEUM Crowned Lily
43 CASSIA CHAMAECRISTA Sensative Pea
44 GYMNOGRAMMA TRIANGULARIS California Gold Fern
45 LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS Scarlet Trumpet Honeysuckle
46 CHELONE GLABRA Turtle-head
47 TOWNSENDIA SERICEA Silky Townsend Flower
48 POLYPODIUM FALCATUM Sickle-leaved Polypody, or Liquorice Fern
SERIES II VOL. II
1 TECOMA RADICANS Trumpet-Flower
2 ALLIUM PALMERI Palmer's Onion
3 NEVIUSIA ALABAMENSIS The Neviusia
4 PELLAEA ORNITHOPUS Bird Rock-Brake
5 LOBELIA CARDINALIS Cardinal Flower
6 CYPRIPEDIUM ARIETINUM Ram's-head Moccasin-Flower
7 DESMANTHUS BRACHYLOBUS Illinois Acacia
8 BOTRYCHIUM TERNATUM Ternate Grape-Fern
9 BRODLAEA COCCINEA Scarlet California Hyacinth-Fire-cracker Flower
10 LACHNANTHES TINCTORIA Wool-Flower
11 ERYTHRINA HERBACEA Dwarf Coral Plant
12 PELLAEA ATROPURPUREA Dark Purple Rock-Brake
13 EPIDENDRUM VENOSUM Veined Tree-Orchis
14 DENTARIA LACINIATA Cut-Leaved Tooth-Wort
15 ANTIRRHINUM SPECIOSUM Gambel's Snap-Dragon
16 ADIANTIUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS True Maiden-Hair Fern
17 CENTAUREA AMERICANA American Centaurea
18 ERIGERON MUCRONATUM Pointed Erigeron
19 HELIANTHEMUM CAROLINIANUM Carolina Sun Rock-Rose
20 LOMARIA SPICANT Northern Hard-Fern
21 SAMBUCUS PUBENS Red-Berried Elder
22 APHYLLON UNIFLORUM One-Flowered Broom-Rape
23 CALTHA PALUSTRIS Marsh-Marigold
24 WOODWARDIA VIRGINICA Common Chain-Fern
25 GILIA TRICOLOR Tri-colored Gilia
26 MONARDA DIDYMA Oswego Tea
27 COTYLEDON NEVADENSIS Nevada Cotyledon
28 CHEILANTHES CALIFORNICA Shield-Like Lip-Fern
29 LIATRIS SCARIOSA Blue Blazing Star
30 CYPRIPEDIUM CANDIDUM White Moccasin Flower
31 POLYGALA LUTEA Yellow Milk-Wort
32 SCHIZAEA PUSILLA New Jersey Schizaea
33 CALYPSO BOREALIS Calypso
34 CASSIA NICTITANS Small-Flowered Wild Sensitive Pea
35 CUSCUTA GRONOVII Common American Dodder
36 BOTRYCHIUM VIRGINIANUM Rattlesnake Grape-Fern
37 WYETHIA ARIZONICA Arizonian Wyethia
38 GENTIANA ANDREWSII Closed Gentian
39 ASTER PATENS Spreading Aster
40 ASPIDIUM CRISTATUM Crested Shield-Fern
41 CALOCHORTUS VENUSTUS Mariposa lily; Butter-fly tulip
42 HELIOPSIS LAEVIS False Sun-Flower
43 PENTSTEMON SECUNDIFLORUS One-Sided Pentstemon
44 WOODWARDIA ANGUSTIFOLIA Netted Chain-Fern
45 KALMIA ANGUSTIFOLIA Dwarf Laurel
46 SILPHIUM LACINIATUM Compass-Plant
47 OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI Colorado Loco-Vetch
48 ASPLENIUM PINNATIFIDUM Pinnatifid Spleen-Wort