An encyclopaedia of plants

Comprising the description, specific character, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain, combining all the advantages of a Linnean and Jussieuean species plantarum, an historia plantarum, a grammar of botany, and a dictionary of botany and vegetable culture

The whole in english. With the synonymes of the commoner plants in the different European and other languages; the scientific names accentuated, their etymologies explained; the classes, orders, and botanical terms illustrated by engravings; and with figures of nearly ten thousend species, exemplifying several individuals belonging to every genus included in the work. Edited by J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., H.S. &c. The specific characters by an eminent botanist. The drawings by J. D. C. Sowerby, F.L.S. And the engravings by R. Branston