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020 _a9781139878654 (ebook)
020 _z9781108077224 (paperback)
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100 1 _aLindley, John,
_d1799-1865,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe vegetable kingdom =
_bor, The structure, classification, and uses of plants illustrated upon the natural system /
_cJohn Lindley.
246 3 0 _aStructure, classification, and uses of plants illustrated upon the natural system
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2015.
300 _a1 online resource (lxviii, 911 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture
500 _aOriginally published: London : Bradbury and Evans, 1847.
520 _aEmployed 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 various works on taxonomy and classification. This work, one of his most famous, was first published in 1846; reissued here is the revised third edition of 1847. Lindley describes his motive as being 'to make his countrymen acquainted with the progress of Systematic Botany abroad' given that the 'superficial and useless system of Linnaeus' was now consigned to history. The work, nonetheless an important milestone in the development of plant taxonomy, gives an overview of the various classification systems used since that of John Ray, and goes on to define the vegetable kingdom in terms of classes and 'alliances' of plants.
650 0 _aPlants
_vClassification.
650 0 _aPlants, Useful.
650 0 _aPlant anatomy.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108077224
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139878654
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