A botanical dictionary

Or elements of systematic and philosophical botany. Containing descriptions of the parts of plants, an explanation of the scientific terms used by Morison, Ray, Tournefort, Linnaeus, and other eminent botanists; a brief analysis of the principal systems in botany; a critical enquiry into the merits and defects of the Linnaean method of arrangement, and distribution of the genera; descriptions of the various tribes, or natural families of plants; their habit and structure, virtues, sensible qualities, and oeconomical uses; an impartial examination of the doctrine of the sex of plants. With a discussion of several curious questions in the vegetable oeconomy, connected with gardening

The whole forming a complete system of botanical knowledge, calculated for the use of students in that science. By Colin Milne, LL.D.