@article{595467, note = {Reproduction of original from British Library.}, author = {Milne, Colin,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/595467}, title = {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, Linnæus, and other eminent Botanists; a brief Analysis of the principal Systems in Botany; a critical Enquiry into the Merits and Defects of the Linnæan 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, Reader on Botany and Natural History in London. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {printed for William Griffin, in Catharine-Street, Strand,}, recid = {595467}, pages = {[452]p.,tables ;}, address = {London :}, year = {1770}, }