The vegetable kingdom and its products : serving as an introduction to the natural system of botany, and as a textbook of all the vegetable substances used in the arts, manufactures, medicine, and domestic economy: arranged according to the system of De Candolle / by Robert Hogg.

  • Hogg, Robert, 1818-1897.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The vegetable kingdom and its products : serving as an introduction to the natural system of botany, and as a textbook of all the vegetable substances used in the arts, manufactures, medicine, and domestic economy: arranged according to the system of De Candolle / by Robert Hogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. » The growing interest that is exhibited in the study of Vegetable Products, the important position they occupy in the commerce of the world, and the difficulty there is in obtaining in botanical works suf- ficient information on the subject in a collected form, are the reasons that have induced the author to undertake the following work. His endeavour has been, to prepare, in a convenient and comprehensive, form, a volume which shall serve as a Text-book to the study both of Systematic and Economic Botany; so' that students, or general readers, may have at hand all attainable information respecting the whole of the Families of which the Vegetable Kingdom is composed. The plan of the work is the same as that followed by Endlichek, in his Enchiridion Botanicum, but much greater prominence has been given to that part of the subject treating of the Properties and Uses of Plants. The system of classification which has been adopted is that founded by the late eminent Pbofessoe De Candolle, of Geneva, but with occasional differences in the structure and sequence of the Families, where such a course is supported by the views of other distinguished botanists, or appeared to the author himself to be correct. The additional authorities that have been consulted on this subject are chiefly—Bichaed, Baktljxg, End lichee, Vox Mabtips, . Peeleb, and Adolphe Bkongniakt ; also the Outlines of Botany of the late Pko- fessob BuejsETt, and the views of these mid others as they have been embodied by De. Lixdley in his last published form of arrangement. The descriptions of the Orders are based on those of De Candolle, Endlichek, and Bichaed, but more particularly on those of the two former,—the Prodromus of the one, and the Enchiridion Botanicum of the other, being the-sources from which they were principally derived. These descriptions are aided by illustrations derived from the best sources.