A botanical dictionary, or, Elements of systematic and philosophical botany ...
Subtitle: the whole forming a complete system of botanical knowledge
By: by Colin Milne ...
Edition: The second edition, with many additions, and illustrative plates.
Publisher: Printed for T. Lowndes ...
Published: 1778
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Botany -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Botanical dictionary.; Elements of systematic and philosophical botany.
Notes: Signatures: pi² A-2E⁸ 2F².
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Descriptions of the parts of plants; title: II. An explanation of the scientific terms used by Morison, Ray, Tournefort, Linnæus and other eminent botanists; title: III. A brief analysis of the principal systems used in botany; title: IV. A critical enquiry into the merits and defects of Linnæan method of arrangement, and distribution of the genera; title: V. Descriptions of the various tribes, or natural families of plants, their habit and structure, virtues, sensible qualities, and œconomical uses; title: VI. An impartial examination of the doctrine of the sex of plants; title: VII With a discussion of several curious questions of the vegetable œconomy, connected with gardening.