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The naturalised flora of South Australia (1909)

Author: Black, John McConnell
Subject: Plants; Exotic plants
Publisher: Adelaide : J.M. Black
Year: 1909.
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 1015989
Digitizing sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Book contributor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Collection: biodiversity
Scanfactors: 2

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Reviewer: David Cooke - - November 2, 2009
Subject: Pioneer work on invasive plants
South Australia was the first State to enact legislation to control invasive plants (1852), and also the first with a Flora of introduced species. Black's 192-page book was the precursor to his complete Flora of South Australia in 4 volumes completed in 1929. After careers as a farmer and journalist, Black retired at 47 and spent his remaining 49 years as an amateur botanist. He obtained specimens from all over the settled parts of SA, but his Naturalised Flora reflects the Adelaide area in particular.
Black's neat, simple illustrations were engraved from the more detailed pencil drawings that he added to his herbarium sheets; many of them were re-used in the Flora of SA, down to the 4th edition in 1986.

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