Manual of British Botany by Charles Cardale Babington, Henry ... - 9781108055666

Manual of British BotanyContaining the Flowering Plants and Ferns Arranged According to the Natural Orders\nAuthor(s): Charles Cardale Babington, Henry Grove, James Grove\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108055666, 978-1108055666\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1843, this book ran to eleven editions, with two published posthumously. Compiled by Cambridge botanist Charles Cardale Babington [tel] over the course of nine years, this was the first comprehensive catalogue of British plants for nearly a century and was conveniently pocket-sized for fieldwork. Babington was by this time the leader in the taxonomical research of higher plants. Providing both the Latin nomenclature assigned at the time and the common English or anglicised name, he divides plants according to the Linnaean natural orders and describes them in great technical detail. A useful glossary is also included to help the reader nav.