Conversations on botany / [Anon].

  • Elizabeth Fitton
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Conversations on botany / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tue object of the following pages, is to enable children and young persons to ac- quire a knowledge of the vegetable pro- ductions of their native country, by in- troducing to them, in a familiar manner, the principles of the Linnean System of Botany. For this purpose, the arrangement of Linnzus is briefly explained; a native plant of each class (with a few exceptions) © is examined, and_ illustrated by an Engrav- ing ; and a short account is added, of some — of the principal foreign species. 7 It is not without regret, that the. classi- fication of Linnzeus has been.in part: relin- . quished, in order to conform to that adopted by Dr. Withering ; who has distributed the plants of four of the Linnean classes, (Gy-
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