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A Botanical Dictionary. 2ª ed.

A Botanical Dictionary. 2ª ed.

Title compA 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 Oeconomly, connected with Gardening. The whole forming A Complete System of Botanical Knowledge / by Colin Milne, L.L. D. The second edition, with many additions, And Illustrative Plates
Bib abrevBot. dict.
AuthorMilne, Colin
Date1778
PublicationLondon : Printed for T. Lowndes -- Nº 77, in Fleet-Street
CityLondon
Page volume[1]-[530] p., [3] h. de lám. grab. pleg. [Pl. I-III], [6] h. de lám. grab. [Pl. IV-IX] ; 19 cm.
Comment bibIncluye con port. propia: A supplement to the botanical dictionary : containing ample descriptions of several curious plants, chiefly asiatic with their uses in Medicine, in domestic oeconomy, and in the arts / by Colin Milne. -- London, 1778
En las lám. grab. se indica: "Page Sculp."
Obra sin paginar, ni foliar
Sign. tipográfica: []{2}, A-2E{8}, 2F{4}; A-E{8}, F{2}
CategoriesHandbooks and manuals
Botany
TL26.075
NMRS18-324