TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lindley,John
TI  - A synopsis of the British flora: arranged according to the natural orders 
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture
SN  - 9781107741928 (ebook)
AV  - QK306 .L56 2015
U1  - 581.941 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Botany
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - Originally published in London, printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green in 1829; Preface -- Class Vasculares -- Class Cellulares -- Appendix -- Index of the orders, genera, and species -- Index of the English names
N2  - The botanist and horticulturalist John Lindley (1799-1865) worked for Sir Joseph Banks, and was later instrumental in saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. He was a prolific author of works for gardening practitioners but also for a non-specialist readership, and many of his books have been reissued in this series. This 1829 work is a classification of British plants using the 'natural' system of the French botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, which Lindley firmly supported, believing that the Linnaean system was both inaccurate and had 'almost disappeared from every country but our own'. Lindley describes genera and species in English, but using a uniform, standard vocabulary, and gives the alternative Latin names proposed by taxonomists including Smith, Curtis, Linnaeus, and the Hortus Kewensis. He also offers tables showing the components of each genus, and substantial indexes giving both Latin and English common names of the plants discussed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107741928
ER  -