Elements of Botany
Structural, Physiological, Systematical, and Medical

John Lindley's 1841 illustrated, low-level textbook for students, with sections on 'structural, physiological, systematical, and medical' botany.

John Lindley (Author)

9781108076647, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 March 2015

304 pages, 130 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.39 kg

Employed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist John Lindley (1799–1865) is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution, and for saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. As an author, he is best remembered for his works on taxonomy and classification. A partisan of the 'natural' system rather than the Linnaean, Lindley published this 1841 work, the fourth edition of his Outline of the First Principles of Botany, under a new title to emphasise not only that it was 'much extended, and, it is hoped, improved', but also that it was a textbook for students of 'structural, physiological, systematical, and medical' botany. He defines the different elements of a plant, and provides a checklist for identification of plant families, before discussing the various 'natural' systems of classification, including his own, and the different practical uses of plants.

Preface
1. Structural and physiological botany
2. Systematical botany
3. Medical botany
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]