A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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NEARLY thirty-nine years ago Dr .1. C. COOKE published his « Mannal," which re;).chod It i,;econd cdition nine years afterwards. Since then no botanic dictionary has been publi~hed in Brit(l.in, while during the period which has passeu sincc then botany has undergone a, lDomentOll!5 challge. ,Yhile systern.tic botany 11:lS been actively prosecll ted, the other departmcnts of morphology, pby~iulogy amI minllte nnatomy b~'e he(;n cncrgctically pursued by the help of improved appliances and methous of investigation. One result has been n. large increase of technical terms, which arc only prtI'thdly accounted for in the various text-J)ooks. Thc time scemed thcrefore l'ipc for a new Glossary which should include thesc tcrms, and, encoUl'aged by the help of many hotanic frienus, 1 h:l.Ve tlrawn up the )Jresent volume. After the work had been partly written, :~nu announced for publication, llr Crozier's "Dictionary" first camO nnder my notice_ I have

Table of Contents

PREFACE; l'LA~ OP TilE VORK; GLOSSARY; ADDI'IIO~S DURIIS"G PRI~1'IIS"G; APPENDIX-; 1 SIG~S AIS"D ABBREVIATIOt;'S; B TUE PrO}lUIS"CIJ1TIOIS" OF LAT(~ llD LATDIIZll:Jl 'VOllDS; O 'l'KE USE OF THE l'EKlIS "RIGHT II '~D •• LEF1'"; D BUlIIOGRU'H:"; ERRATA;

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