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.
- Milne, Colin, 1743 or 1744-1815.
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- MDCCLXX. [1770]
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London : printed for William Griffin, in Catharine-Street, Strand, MDCCLXX. [1770]
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[452]p.,tables ; 120.
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References note
ESTC T64667
Henrey, 1148
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.