Florula Cestrica : an essay towards a catalogue of the phænogamous plants, native and naturalized, growing in the vicinity of the Borough of West-Chester, in Chester County, Pennsylvania : with brief notices of their properties, and uses, in medicine, rural economy, and the arts : to which is subjoined an appendix of the useful cultivated plants of the same district / by William Darlington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darlington, William, 1782-1863.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Pennsylvania--Chester County.

Botany.

Pennsylvania--Chester County.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Wherry, Edgar T. (donor) (RBC copy)

Sevile, Thomas S. (autograph) (RBC copy)

Towne, S. R. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 152 pages, 3 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Memoir on the topography, weather and diseases of the Bahama Islands.

Place of Publication:

West-Chester, Penn. : Printed for the Author, by Simeon Siegfried, 1826.

Notes:

Errata on pages xv and 139-40.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: 3 leaves of plates wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has all preliminary pages prior to the t.p. wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of S.R. Towne.

Cited in:

Sabin, 18595

Pritzel. Thesaurus lit. botanicae, 2048

OCLC:

14001234

Bound With:

Pennsylvania Hospital copy is bound with: Townsend, P. S. Memoir on the topography, weather, and diseases of the Bahama Islands ... 1826.