A botanical dictionary : or elements of systematic and philosophical botany. Containing Descriptions of the Parts of Plants; an Explanation of the scientific Terms used by Morison, Ray, Tournefort, Linnæus, and other eminent Botanists; a brief Analysis of the principal Systems in Botany; a critical Enquiry into the Merits and Defects of the Linnæan Method of Arrangement, and Distribution of the Genera; Descriptions of the various Tribes, or natural Families of Plants, their Habit and Structure, Virtues, sensible Qualities, and oeconomical Uses; an impartial Examination of the Doctrine of the Sex of Plants; with a Discussion of several curious Questions in the Vegetable Oeconomy, connected with gardening. The whole forming A Complete System of Botanical Knowledge, Calculated for the Use of Students in that Science. By Colin Milne, Reader on Botany and Natural History in London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milne, Colin, 1743 or 1744-1815.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Dictionaries.

Botany.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

452 unnumbered pages,tables ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for William Griffin, in Catharine-Street, Strand, MDCCLXX. [1770]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 1148

English Short Title Catalog, T64667.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.