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, Linnaeus, and other eminent Botanists-a brief Analysis of the principal Systems in Botany-a critical Enquiry into the Merits and Defects of the Linnaean 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. By Colin Milne, LL.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milne, Colin, 1743 or 1744-1815.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany, Medical.

Botany--Dictionaries.

Botany.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

526 unnumbered pages,ixplates,tables ; 8⁰

Edition:

The second edition, with many additions, and illustrative plates.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

A reissue of the 1770 edition with a cancel titlepage and with the addition of a supplement, with separate titlepage, containing the plates.

The main part of the work has horizontal chain lines and the supplement vertical.

Price from imprint: price Seven Shillings and Six Pence bound.

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, 1149

English Short Title Catalog, T129850.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.