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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Dictionaries.

Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([452]p.,tables )

Other Title:

Botanical dictionary

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 1148

English Short Title Catalog, T64667.

OCLC:

642654726