Institutes of botany
Subtitle: containing accurate, compleat and early descriptions of all the known genera of plants : translated from the Latin of the celebrated Charles Von Linné ... to which are prefixed I.A view of the ancient and present state of Botany. II. A synopsis, exhibiting the essential or striking characters ...
By: by Colin Milne
Publisher: Sold by W. Griffin
Published: 1771
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Plants; Classification; Early works to 1800
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).

Henrey, 1151

Stafleu and Cowan (2nd ed.) 6076
Table of contents: title: I. A view of the ancient and present state of botany.; title: 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.