Institutes of botany
Subtitle: containing accurate, compleat and easy descriptions of all the known genera of plants: translated from the Latin of the celebrated Charles von Linné, Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Upsal; First physician to the King of Sweden, Knight of the Polar Star, and member of the most learned societies in Europe. To which are prefixed, I. A view of the ancient and present state of botany. II. A Synopsis, exhibiting the essential or striking characters which serve to discriminate genera of the same class and order; as likewise the secondary characters of each genus, or those derived from the port, habit or general appearance of the plants which compose it
By: By Colin Milne, Reader on Botany in London, author of the Botanical Dictionary
Contributors: Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Publisher: Sold by W. Griffin, Bookseller, Catharine-street; J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty; P. Elmsly, opposite Southampton-street; Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange; F. Noble, opposite Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn; and J. Robson, New-Bond-street
Published: 1771
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Plants; Classification
Notes: "The second part commences at p.135, it has a separate title-page dated 1772. The work is incomplete, without the translation of the Genera plantarum, and the 'Synopsis' extends only to a portion of Tetrandria Monogynia." (Henrey).

ESTC, T80796.

Henrey, 1151.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Incomplete: first part only; all lacking after p. 134. Stamp of Medical Society of London on t.p.