The vegetable system. Or, the internal structure and the life of plants; their parts, and nourishment, explained; their classes, orders, genera, and species, ascertained, and described; in a method altogether new: : comprehending an artificial index, and a natural system. With figures of all the plants; designed and engraved by the author. The whole from nature only. /
Hill, John,1714?-1775.
London: : Printed for the author in St. James's-Street: and sold by R. Baldwin in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Ridley in St. James's-Street; B. White in Fleet-Street; L. Davis in Holborn; J. Robson, in Bond Street; P. Elmsly, and J. Cambell, in the Strand; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh.,
M.DCC.LXXIII [1773]..
Each volume includes an index and vol. 26 contains a general index to all the volumes.
Vol. I. Containing a new anatomy of plants -- Vol. II. Containing the whole series of plants with radiated flowers -- Vol. III. Containing the two entire classes of plants with tubulate and ligulate flowers -- Vol. IV. Containing the whole class of associates or capitate plants -- Vol. V. Containing the entire class of aggregate or cluster-headed plants: ... -- Vol. VI. Containing all the umbelliferous plants -- Vol. VII. Containing the first series of the one-petal'd plants -- Vol. VIII. Containing a second series of the one-petal'd plants -- Vol. IX. Containg a third series of the one-petal'd plants -- Vol. X. Containing a third [sic] series of the one-petal'd plants -- Vol. XI. Containing four-petal'd plants -- Vol. XII. Herbs of four-petal'd and five-petal'd flowers ... -- Vol. XIII. Herbs having flowers of five petals ... -- Vol. XIV. Containing five-petal'd plants -- Vol. XV. Containing five-petal'd plants -- Vol. XVI. Containing five-petal'd plants -- Vol. XVII. Containing plants with one-leaved irregular flowers -- Vol. XVIII. Containing plants with irregular flowers of one petal -- Vol. XIX. Containing plants with irregular flowers of one petal -- Vol. XX. Containing plants with irregular flowers of one, two, three, and four petals -- Vol. XXI. Containing plants with four-petal'd irregular flowers -- Vol. XXII. Containing plants with four-petal'd and five petal'd irregular flowers -- Vol. XXIII. Containing plants with fix-petaled, irregular flowers, and those with incompleat flowers of one petal -- Vol. XXIV. Containing plants with incompleat flowers of three, four, five, and six petals -- Vol. XXV. Containing plants with hexapetalous and polypetalous flowers, without cups: with cups of one leaf; entire; and divided into two; and three segments; without flowers -- Vol. XXVI. and last. Containing plants without petals; having only cups or chives and pointals to their flowers.
A full set of 26 volumes from various issues ranging from 1763-1775.
Imprint taken from vol. 1, 2nd ed., 1773.
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