Format:
1 Online-Ressource (pages 386-818)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781107706163
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture
Content:
This two-volume milestone work, published in 1776, was the first major publication of William Withering (1741–99), a physician who had also trained as an apothecary (his Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses is also reissued in this series). The first systematic botanical guide to British native plants, the present work uses and extends the Linnaean system of classification, but renders the genera and species 'familiar to those who are unacquainted with the Learned Languages'. Withering offers 'an easy introduction to the study of botany', explaining the markers by which the plants are classified in a particular genus, and giving advice on preserving specimens, but the bulk of the work consists of botanical descriptions (in English) of the appearance, qualities, varieties, common English names, and uses of hundreds of plants. The book continued to be revised and reissued for almost a century after Withering's death
Content:
15. Four chives longer -- 16. Threads united -- 17. Threads in two sets -- 18. Threads in many sets -- 19. Tips united -- 20. Chives on the pointal -- 21. Chives and pointals separate -- 22. Chives and pointals distinct -- 23. Various dispositions upon one plant -- 24. Flowers inconspicuous -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Latin terms -- Plates
Note:
Originally published in London by T. Cadel in 1776
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108075886
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108075886
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107706163
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107706163
Bookmarklink
