Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes.

  • Darwin, Robert Waring, 1766-1848.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P R E F A C E. IT may seem unnecefsary to attempt an in- troduction to botany, after so laborious and established a performance as that of Mr. Lee ; but as that work is very diffuse, and more pro- per for an adept in the science, than a young student; it was thought a more easy way of inculcating the first principles might be adopt- ed on a lefs scale; and by confining the ne- cefsary matter to each respective head, the whole might be so contracted, as to give a general idea of the system at one view ; and the mind not left at large to expatiate over an unbounded prospect, which frequently cre- ates confusion, and ends in disgust. Another reason also occurred to render this attempt necefsary; that the price might be so low, as not to deter those in lefs a (fluent cir- cumstances, from entering into the paths of nature; and therefore, the plates of the several parts ol the fructification, the forms of the leaves, Sec. (which may be seen in every larger pub- lication of botany) are omitted; as are also the several