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

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Milne, Colin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for William Griffin, in Catharine-Street, Strand 1770, MDCCLXX. [1770]
Subjects:	Botany / Dictionaries
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0179401600?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa