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.
- Milne, Colin, 1743 or 1744-1815.
- Date:
- M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]
Physical description
[526]p.,ixplates,tables ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The second edition, with many additions, and illustrative plates.
References note
ESTC T129850
Henrey, 1149
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.