The Language Of Botany: Being A Dictionary Of The Terms Made Use Of In That Science, Principally By Linneus: With Familiar Explanations And An Attempt To Establish Significant English Terms. The Whole Interspersed With Critical Remarks.

MARTYN, Thomas [1735-1825].

Published by London: Printed By T.Bensley, For John White, 1807.

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8vo. pp. xxxiii, [402]. Uncut in original bds. (spine repaired). Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. The author was a fellow of the Linnaean and Royal Societies and professor of botany at Cambridge. His preface includes a list of the "principal fundamental treatises on botanical language that have been hitherto published, and that he has seen or consulted (pp. xxiv-xxxiii), beginning with Linnaeus s Philosophia Botanica, first published in 1751. Freeman 2509.

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• Title: The Language Of Botany: Being A Dictionary Of The Terms Made Use Of In That Science, Principally By Linneus: With Familiar Explanations And An Attempt To Establish Significant English Terms. The Whole Interspersed With Critical Remarks.
• Publisher: London: Printed By T.Bensley, For John White, 1807.
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  • Natural-History