A manual of plant names
By: by C. Chicheley Plowden.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 1968
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Plants -- Nomenclature.; Botany -- Terminology.; Plant names, Popular.
Description: Gives meanings of generic, specific and common names. Also contains sections on botanical terms, terminology of the flower, inflorescence and leaf. The section on generic names gives common name, family, translation, derivation, application. A section on the plant system gives information such as number of species and genera for plant families.