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.

People / Organizations

• Colin Milne (Author)

Imprint

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

Publication year

1770-1770

ESTC No.

T64667

Grub Street ID

289654

Description

[452]p.,tables ; 12⁰

Uncontrolled note

Final sig. = Ff2