An encyclopædia of plants; comprising the description, specific character, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain, combining all the advantages of a Linnean and Jussieuean species plantarum, an historia plantarum, a grammar of botany, and a dictionary of botany and vegetable culture. The whole in English; with the synonymes of the commoner plants in the different European and other languages ..
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843