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The First Book of Botany: Being a Plain and Brief Introduction to That Science, for Schools and Young Persons

2009-06-13T12:10:00.000-07:00

The First Book of Botany: Being a Plain and Brief Introduction to That Science, for Schools and Young Persons is written by Mrs. Loudon. The digital version of this botany book is available at Google books library and can download PDF version of this book. This botany book explains you about different plants & herbs with descriptions and intended for young students for knowing the basics of Botany. You will learn the natural system of botany with a good description of terms used in.

Following are the topics covered in this Botany book.

On the parts into which plants are divided by Botanists
The roots
The Trunk or Stem
The leaves and their appendages
The flower
The fruit and Seed
On the natural division of Plants
Trees
Shrubs
Herbaceous Plants
Evergreens
Deciduous Plants
Succulent plants
Parasites and Epithets
Hardy, half-Hardy and tender plants
On the botanical division of plants
Use of classification
Classes, orders, genera, species and varieties
The system of Linnaeus
The system of jussie
The natural system, as altered by professor Dr Candolle

Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall, with notices of their botanical contemporaries (review only)

2009-06-13T11:37:00.000-07:00

Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall, with notices of their botanical contemporaries is written by William Darlington and published by Lindsay & Blakiston.

Progress of Botany in North America

We have for some time indulged the idea, that it would not be unacceptable to those who may take an interest in Botany to find in this work a brief preliminary sketch of the progress of Botanical Science on this continent, especially in that portion of it belonging, to the United States. We have also thought it might be gratifying to such as have not made themselves familiar with the subject, to see a list of the works which have been expressly devoted to the Botany of this region, together with a notice, however meagre, of the labours of those who have explored and illustrated the vegetable products of our country.

It would not be expedient, here neither do the materials in possession of the writer warrant the attempt to amplify the topic. He merely proposes to indicate, as far as known to him and as nearly in chronological order as practicable the titles and character of the several Catalogues, Floras, Scientific Journals, and other publications, illustrative of North American Plants, with occasional notices of their authors, and of other lovers of nature, whose zeal and industry have made us acquainted with the floral beauties which decorate our valleys, and hill sides, and mountain tops bespangling our prairies, imparting magnificence to our forests, and shedding a delicious fragrance over our land. It seemed to be germain to the object of the work, to afford a passing glance at what others have done, in the same field of science in which a Bartram and a Marshall were so early, so earnestly, and so successfully engaged...

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Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall, with notices of their botanical contemporaries

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American medicinal leaves and herbs

2009-06-13T10:34:00.000-07:00

American medicinal leaves and herbs is written by Alice Henkel and published by Government Printing Office, Washington. This botany book covers various medicinal leaves and herbs with its synonyms , other names, pictures, habitat and range, collection, prices and uses, etc. Moreover it covers medicinal leaves description showing leaves size, shape, family and appearance, etc.

Following are the few topics regarding various herbs and medicinal leaves covered in this Botany book.

Collection Of Leaves And Herbs
Plants Furnishing Medicinal Leaves And Herbs
Sweet Fern
Liver leaf
Celandine
Witch-Hazel
American Senna
Evening Primrose
Yerba Santa
Pipsissewa
Mountain Laurel
Gravel Plant
Wintergreen
Bearberry
Buck Bean
Skullcap
Horehound
Catnip
Mother wort
Penny royal
Bugle weed
Peppermint
Spearmint
Jim son Weed
Balmony
Common Speedwell
Foxglove
Squaw Vine
Lobelia
Bone set
Gum Plant
Canada Flea bane
Yarrow
Tansy
Wormwood
Colts foot
Fire weed
Blessed Thistle

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American medicinal leaves and herbs (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Bureau of plant industry. Bulletin)

Curtis's Botanical Magazine

2009-06-13T10:16:00.000-07:00

Curtis's Botanical Magazine is continuously publishing since 1787 and is a longest running periodical botanical magazine. It contains illustration of plants in color graphics. This magazine is published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This magazine comprises readable texts of horticultural and botanical information such as plants history, conservation and wide range of economic uses.

You can download following volumes of Curtis botanical magazine.

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 1-2, 1790
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 3-4, 1790-91
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 5-6, 1792-93
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 7-8, 1794
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 9-10, 1795-96
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 11-12, 1797-98
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 13-14, 1799-1800
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 15-16, 1801 & 03
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 17-18, 1803
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 19-20, 1804