Annotated List Of The Wildflowers Of California

Privately Printed, San Francisco, 1917; 8vo, 165 pages. An exhaustive listing of California wild flowers, assembled by P.B. Kennedy, Ph.D., University of California, and President of the California Botanical Society. A total of 2,164 plants identified by both botanical and common name, environment they are most likely to be found in, and notes on edibility and medicinal value where relevant. Published in honor of the Third Annual California Wild Flower Fete, held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco in April of 1917 for the benefit of the Boy’s Outing Farm in the Santa Cruz mountains. Includes a 4-page history of the Boys’ Outing Farm at the front, as well as a history of the Wild Flower Fete, inaugurated at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. Very Good, in gray cloth-covered boards with black titles.