Medicinal Plant excerpts VOLUME I Ophioglossaceae to Polygonaceae

Introduction to Botany Notes

This book explains the following topics: Plant cells, Plant tissues, Plant organs, Plant organs the plant stem, Plant organs leaves, Flowers, Fruits and seeds, Plants growth and development, Plant names and classification, Imperium cellular organisms, Kingdom algae, Kingdom fungi, Lichens, Subkingdom cormobionta, The seedless vascular plants, Seed plants, Seed plants angiosperms, Kingdom plants, Herbaria and plant preservation, Plant ecology and Plant geography.

Author(s): Melikyan Yelena A

316 Pages

Insectivorous Plants

Insectivorous Plants is a book by British naturalist and evolutionary theory pioneer Charles Darwin. The book chronicles Darwin's experiments with various carnivorous plants, in which he carefully studied their feeding mechanisms. Darwin tried several methods to stimulate the plants into activating their trap mechanisms, including feeding them meat and glass, blowing on them and prodding them with hair.

Author(s): Charles Darwin

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The botanical text book, an introduction to scientific botany, both structural and systematic

This book is designed to furnish classes in our schools and colleges with a suitable text book of Structural and Physiological Botany, as well as private students with a convenient introductory manual, adapted to the present condition of the science.

Author(s): Asa Gray

528 Pages

Studies of Trees

In the chapters of this book, on the identification of trees, the aim has been to bring before the student only such characters and facts as shall help him to distinguish the tree readily during all seasons of the year. Special stress is laid in each case on the most striking peculiarities. Possible confusion with other trees of similar appearance is prevented as far as possible through comparisons with trees of like form or habit.

Author(s): Jacob Joshua Levison

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The Botanical Magazine Vol. I

The publication familiarized its readers with ornamental and exotic plants and contains a description, in formal yet accessible language.

Author(s): William Curtis

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The Elements of Botany

This volume takes the place of the author's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, published over a quarter of a century ago. It is constructed on the same lines, and is a kind of new and much revised edition of that successful work.

Author(s): Asa Gray

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Botany Laboratory Note Book

This book is the result of several years 1 experience of the authors with the Intermediate classes. A lot of time is usually wasted in giving instructions and notes to the students as to the procedure of the day's work. The authors feel that this humble attempt at systematizing the practical work of Intermediate classes, will go a long way to remove this difficulty.

Author(s): Dass H.C.and Sawhney C.L.

150 Pages

Plants Database

The Plants Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Author(s): NA

NA Pages

Fenner's Complete Formulary and Handbook Volume I and II (PDF 53P)

When in 1874, the first edition of Fenner's Complete Formulary (then a small pamphlet) was issued it was the pioneer in a new field of pharmacy, and furnished the first reliable line of formulas for elixirs and the so-called Elegant Preparations which were then coming rapidly into use.

Author(s): Byron Fenner

1296 Pages

Medicinal Plant excerpts VOLUME I Ophioglossaceae to Polygonaceae

Nathaniel Lord Britton was the first director-in-chief of The New York Botanical Garden and a giant of a taxonomist. From 1896 to 1898 he published the three-volume landmark floristic study An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada (Brown financed it), and revised it again in 1913. This book contains 149 individual plant files, each with illustration, taxonomy, distribution and current botanical name.

Author(s): Nathaniel Lord Britton

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