Institutes of botany; containing accurate, compleat and easy descriptions of all the known genera of plants: translated from the Latin of the celebrated Charles von Linné, Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Upsal; First Physician to the King of Sweden, Knight of the Polar Star, and Member of most of the Learned Societies in Europe. To which are prefixed, I. A view of the ancient and present state of botany. II. A synopsis, exhibiting the essential or striking characters which serve to discriminate genera of the same Class and Order; as likewise the secondary Characters of each Genus, or those derived from the Port, Habit or general Appearance of the Plants which compose it. By Colin Milne, Reader on Botany in London, Author of the Botanical Dictionary [electronic resource].