This masterpiece of botanical scholarship and ecological intelligence is as beautiful as practical. The ink drawings of Dominique Mansion China are both rigorous, elegant and trembling of life. Because the artist has always taken care to crunch on the deep fresh plants, not dry grasses. Popular names, maps and allocation tables, medicinal applications, feeder, craft flora bring to this what is lacking in most other: it is a combined field tool to an art object. What his same aspect summarizes: 1800 pages of bible paper, in a flexible plastic binder allowing botanizing fours in ditches, mouillères, thickets and sunken roads ... Roll Flora Mediterranean, the same authors!