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Clavis anglica linguæ botanicæ ; or, A botanical lexicon In which the terms of botany, particularly those occurring in the works of Linnæus, and other modern writers, are applied, derived, explained, contrasted and exemplified. Second edition. To which is added, Calendarium botanicum. By John Berkenhout, M.D.
Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- E-books
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The universal botanist and nurseryman containing descriptions of the species and varieties of all the trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, and fruits, natives and exotics, at present cultivated in the European nurseries, green-houses and stoves, or described by modern botanists; arranged according to the Linnæean system, with their names in English. To which are added a copious botanical glossary, several useful catalogues and indexes. Illustrated with elegant engravings. In four volumes. By Richard Weston, Esq.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- E-journals
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Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the gardeners dictionary , exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, their descriptions, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnæus's method of classing them. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea. In two volumes.
Philip MillerDate: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]