An encyclopædia of plants;
comprising the description, specific character, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain, combining all the advantages of a Linnean and Jussieuean species plantarum, an historia plantarum, a grammar of botany, and a dictionary of botany and vegetable culture. The whole in English; with the synonymes of the commoner plants in the different European and other languages ...
Ed. by J. C. Loudon ... the specific characters by an eminent botanist, the drawings by J. D. C. Sowerby, F.L.S., and the engravings by R. Branston.

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Main Author

Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843

Language(s)

English

Published

London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1829.

Subjects

Botany > Botany / Dictionaries.

Note

"Names of books referred to": p. [vii]-xiii.

Physical Description

xx, 2, 1159, [1] p. illus. 22 cm.

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