Botanical dictionary
Subtitle: or, Elements of systematic and philosophical botany
By: by Colin Milne
Edition: The 2d ed., with many additional and illustrative plates.
Publisher: Printed for T. Lowndes
Published: 1778
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: Botany; Dictionaries; Early works to 1800
Notes: 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.