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A Synopsis of the British Flora
Arranged According to the Natural Orders
Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture Series
Author: Lindley John
Lindley's 1829 classification of British plants describes genera and species in English, using a uniform, standard vocabulary.
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Publication date: 03-2015
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The botanist and horticulturalist John Lindley (1799?1865) worked for Sir Joseph Banks, and was later instrumental in saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. He was a prolific author of works for gardening practitioners but also for a non-specialist readership, and many of his books have been reissued in this series. This 1829 work is a classification of British plants using the 'natural' system of the French botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, which Lindley firmly supported, believing that the Linnaean system was both inaccurate and had 'almost disappeared from every country but our own'. Lindley describes genera and species in English, but using a uniform, standard vocabulary, and gives the alternative Latin names proposed by taxonomists including Smith, Curtis, Linnaeus, and the Hortus Kewensis. He also offers tables showing the components of each genus, and substantial indexes giving both Latin and English common names of the plants discussed.
Preface; Class Vasculares; Class Cellulares; Appendix; Index of the orders, genera, and species; Index of the English names.
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