Book ID: 9208
Slack, Adrian
Carnivorous Plants. 1979. 16 coloured photographic plates. many unnumbered line-drawings and some black and white photographs in the text. 240 p. 4to. Cloth.
Contents (abbreviated): Preface/ Description: The Carnivorous Plants, an introduction/ The Pitcher Plants of Continental America/ The Tropical Pitcher Plant: Nepenthes/ The West Australian Pitcher Plant: Cephalotus/ Genlisia/ The Passive Flypapers (Byblis, Drosophyllum)/ The Active Flypapers (Pinguicula,Drosera)/ The Spring Traps (Dionaea, Aldrovanda)/ The Bladder Traps (Polypompholyx, Utricularia)/ Cultivation: How to Grow Carnivorous Plants (Cultivation indoors, Greenhouse cultivation)/ Cultivation out of doors (Containers and materials, Species cultivation)/ Raising Sarracenia hybrids/ Nepenthes horticultural hybrids/ Bibliography and References/ List of Suppliers/ Glossary/ Index.
Good second hand copy. The previous owner apparently cut the original dust cover up and glued the front part on the inside of the hardcover and the verso of the cover opposite. The flaps were also glued inside the book, but none of the text is affected.