Elements of botany :
Lindley, John, 1799-1865,
Elements of botany : structural, physiological, systematical, and medical / John Lindley. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 1 online resource (iv, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture . - Cambridge library collection. .
Originally published in London, printed for Taylor and Walton in 1841.
Preface -- 1. Structural and physiological botany -- 2. Systematical botany -- 3. Medical botany -- Index.
Employed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist John Lindley (1799-1865) is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution, and for saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. As an author, he is best remembered for his works on taxonomy and classification. A partisan of the 'natural' system rather than the Linnaean, Lindley published this 1841 work, the fourth edition of his Outline of the First Principles of Botany, under a new title to emphasise not only that it was 'much extended, and, it is hoped, improved', but also that it was a textbook for students of 'structural, physiological, systematical, and medical' botany. He defines the different elements of a plant, and provides a checklist for identification of plant families, before discussing the various 'natural' systems of classification, including his own, and the different practical uses of plants.
9781107741850 (ebook)
Botany.
Plant physiology.
QK45 / .L56 2015
581
Elements of botany : structural, physiological, systematical, and medical / John Lindley. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 1 online resource (iv, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture . - Cambridge library collection. .
Originally published in London, printed for Taylor and Walton in 1841.
Preface -- 1. Structural and physiological botany -- 2. Systematical botany -- 3. Medical botany -- Index.
Employed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist John Lindley (1799-1865) is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution, and for saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. As an author, he is best remembered for his works on taxonomy and classification. A partisan of the 'natural' system rather than the Linnaean, Lindley published this 1841 work, the fourth edition of his Outline of the First Principles of Botany, under a new title to emphasise not only that it was 'much extended, and, it is hoped, improved', but also that it was a textbook for students of 'structural, physiological, systematical, and medical' botany. He defines the different elements of a plant, and provides a checklist for identification of plant families, before discussing the various 'natural' systems of classification, including his own, and the different practical uses of plants.
9781107741850 (ebook)
Botany.
Plant physiology.
QK45 / .L56 2015
581