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An encyclopaedia of plants [2.ª ed.]

An encyclopaedia of plants [2.ª ed.]

Title compAn encyclopaedia of plants; comprising the specific character, description, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain: combining much of the information contained in a Species plantarum, A Historia Plantarum, a Grammar of Botany, and a dictionary of botany and vegetable culture. The whole in English; with figures of nearly ten thousand species; and supplements bringing down the work to the year 1840. / Edited by J. C. Loudon, F.L.S. H.S. &c. ; The specific characters by an eminent botanist; the drawings by J. D. C. Sowerby, F.L.S.; and the engravings by R. and R. E. Branston. ; [2.ª ed.]
Bib abrevEncycl. Pl. ed. 2
AuthorLoudon, John Claudius
Date1841
PublicationLondon : Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, Paternoster-Row (London : printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square)
CityLondon
Page volume[i]-xxii, [1]-[2], 1-1329 p., [1330, colofón] ; 22,4 cm
Comment bibOtros responsables: Sowerby, James de Carle (dib.) ; Branston, Allen Robert (grab.) ; Branston, Robert Edward (grab.)
Contiene: "Firts additional supplement to Loudon's encyclopaedia of plants; comprising the specific character, description, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants originated in, or introduced into Britain, between the first publication of the work in 1829, and january, 1840; with a new general index to the whole work", p. [1143]-1329
CategoriesLichens
Fungi
TL25.026
NMRO LOU