Volume 1

A botanical description of British plants, in the Midland counties, particularly of those in the neighbourhood of Alcester ... to which is prefixed a short introduction to the study of botany / [Thomas Purton].

  • Purton, Thomas, 1768-1833.
Date:
1817
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Credit: A botanical description of British plants, in the Midland counties, particularly of those in the neighbourhood of Alcester ... to which is prefixed a short introduction to the study of botany / [Thomas Purton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTES EXPLANATORY. Note I. Nearly the whole of the English Fungi, and also the cryptogamise of the English Botany, are in my possession. I regret exceedingly, thatdhe greater part of this work was written, before a General Index to the E. Botany was published : if I had seen it sooner, most of the plants should have had a place, agreeably to the order and arrangement laid down in that work; which may very justly be termed, the Key-stone of British Botany. Note II. As the Orders of the first thirteen Classes take their denominations from the number of pointals or stigmas; I have hitherto, followed that plan strict¬ ly; and consequently have placed Butomus in the sixth Order, agreeably to that arrangement.* It * Ors,—The Orders of the Classes Monadelphia, Diadelphia, Polyadelphia, Gynandrm, Monoeeia, and Dicecia, are taken from the number and disposition of the stamens.