Sinopsis
This book is an early guide to plant identification, focusing on the most common British species. Its main topics are the classification and description of plants, with instructions on how to make a herbarium. Unlike contemporary books, this one simplifies the process by using English names when possible and includes easy-to-understand explanations of the parts of a plant. The author's aim was to facilitate a deeper appreciation for the natural world by providing readers with the tools to identify and learn more about the plants around them. The book's insights remain significant today, especially for those interested in botany and nature study.
Reseña del editor
Excerpt from Popular Field Botany: Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the Plants Most Common to the Various Localities of the British Isles
This little work, the second edition of which is now entering on its career, was originally compiled for the use of some young friends of the author, and used by them in manuscript with sufficient success to induce its publication, in the hope that it might contribute to form other young botanists, and lay the foundation for much interesting amusement, arising from a pursuit so congenial to the young and active; and above all to those who delight in the examination of the works of nature: a study to which we are urged not only by our own feeling of its propriety, as showing a due reve rence for the gifts of God, but to which we are incited by many of the first writers of ancient and modern times.
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