Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson].
- Henry, Mary Jackson
- Date:
- 1797
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] proved by late experiments to be moft cxa<fb. I tell you this to warn you from being too haftily led to think flightly of the merits of this great man, by a book^ which I fhall put into your hands, and which will give you much information ; but, at the fame time, you will find the fmall failings of Lin- neus pointed out in it with an ungenerous acrimony. The Strobile is defined to be formed of an Ament with hardened fcales; this, when you underftand the fubjedt, you will find to be a juft definition, at prefent it conveys no precife idea to you ; this kind of feed-veflel is found in the fir tribe. Charles, Then, for the future, we muft call the cones, the fir-apples. Strobiles ? Hortenf. That is their fcientific name ; the Strobiles of the larch (pinus larix) are beau- tiful. Henry, Juliette and I always admire them much ; they are crimfon and green, like what you told us of the Aments of the birch. Hortenf. Henry has remembered to ufe the proper term, of which I perceive he is not a little proud. The Seed is defined by Linneus * Milne’s Botanical Didlionary, 7s. bound,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28762514_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
