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Botanical Latin
This reference work explains the grammar and syntax of botanical Latin, and covers the roots and origins of Latin and latinised geographical names, colour terms, symbols and abbreviations, diagnoses and descriptions, and the formation of names and epithets.
Botanical Latin
"Botanical Latin is an internationally used technical language developed over the past 250 years for the naming and description of plants. In that time, in order to meet the expanding need for accurate scientific descriptions, its vocabulary has been continually enriched with new words, mostly coined from Greek, and with classical Latin words now given precise and particular botanical meanings.
Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, 1599-1858
Traces the establishment of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as a licensing body to its eminence as a centre of teaching in the 18th century. The text then covers the subsequent decline of the college in the 19th century with an account of how, in conjunction with Glasgow University, it re-established itself as the guarantor of high medical standards of learning and practice.
Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners
Stearn's classic dictionary of the meaning and origin of some 6,000 botanical names
The Names of Plants
This book is a reference for botanists and horticulturalists, including an historic account of names and a comprehensive glossary.
Official Register
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Medieval Herbals
Collins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.
Hooker's Finest Fruits
William Hooker was both an artist and a gardener. Commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society to paint and describe the most attractive and interesting varieties of fruit being cultivated at the time. One hundred of the best have been brought together here in one volume.
The Genus Epimedium and Other Herbaceous Berberidaceae
This Kew classic is anaugmented edition ofWilliam Stearn’s classicmonograph onEpimedium published in1938. Retaining theunmistakable stamp ofscholarship andaccessibility thatcharacterised all his work,it is an essential botanical reference and a practicalhandbook for gardeners. Part I is a detailedtaxonomic treatment of Epimedium andVancouveria including cultivars, plus chapters onhabit, classification, morphology, cultivation andgeographical distribution; Part II coversCaulophyllum, Ranzania, Jeffersonia, Leontice andother herbaceous Berberidaceae; and Part III isJulian Shaw’s revision of Podophyllum. With 27botanical paintings, 31 line drawings and 77 colourphotographs.
