TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lindley,John
TI  - Elements of botany: structural, physiological, systematical, and medical 
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture
SN  - 9781107741850 (ebook)
AV  - QK45 .L56 2015
U1  - 581 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Botany
KW  - Plant physiology
N1  - Originally published in London, printed for Taylor and Walton in 1841; Preface -- 1. Structural and physiological botany -- 2. Systematical botany -- 3. Medical botany -- Index
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107741850
ER  -