Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England : From its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnaean System (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Primaeval botany, druidical and Saxon botany; 2. Botany of the middle ages; 3. History of, continued to the revival of learning; 4. First printed books on botany, Hernarius. Hortus Sanitatis, Grete Herbal, first English printed book on the subject. Ascham: Copland: first botanic gardens; 5. Turner, and his contemporaries; 6. Bulleyn, Penny, Maplet, and Morning; 7. Lyte; 8. Lobel, and Newton; 9. Dodoens and Gerard; 10. Johnson, Goodyer, Bowles, and others; 11. Parkinson, Boel, Gordier, and others; 12. History of wooden cuts of plants; 13. The Oxford physic garden founded; 14. Tradescant, astrological herbalists, Turner, Culpepper, and Lovel, Pechey, and Salmon; 15. Ray: his Catalogue Cantabrigiensis; 16. Ray, continued: Catalogus Plantarum Angliae, et Stirpium Exoticarum; 17. Ray, continued: Catalogus Plantarum Angliae, second edition; 18. Ray, continued: Historia Plantarum; 19. Ray, continued: Synopsis Stirpium, et Sylloge Stirpium; 20. Ray, continued: Methodus Plantarum emendata, his death and character; 21. Cowley; 22. Merret; 23. Morison, bobart; 24. History of the rise and progress of system in botany; 25. Discovery of the sexes of plants; 26. Willisel, Thomas, plot, natural histories of counties, Sir George Wheler.