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The introductory chapters of this classic work of George Bentham offer the reader a brief sketch of the fundamental concepts and principles of descriptive and systematic botany, vegetable anatomy and physiology, besides synoptic notes on collection, preservation and determination of plants. Systematically enumerated in the main text are over 1000 species belonging to about 100 families of several genera of the British botanical riches, divided into three main ...
The first ten volumes of the Icones Plantarum were edited by William Jackson Hooker himself, although, in the later volumes, some of the texts were provided by other authors, notably Joseph Dalton Hooker. The volumes 1-4 constitute the first series, the numbers 5-10 the second series. The first eight volumes were published in two parts of fifty numbered plates each. Since every double plate received two numbers, however, the actual number of plates per part is ...
It has been well remarked by the illustrious Wallich (the Father of Nepalese Botany), that in Nepal the genus Rhododendron claims the highest rank amongst the plants, of that rich kingdom. From the proximity of sikkim to Nepal, a similarity in the botanical features of these countries might be expected; and also that the difference should ratherexist in individual species than in the genera or higher groups. The outline of the two countries is very similar, ...
Sir Joseph traversed the Central and Eastern Himalayas in 1848, a time when no traveller or naturalist, however bedazzled by its mystique, has ventured forth. Even today, more than a hundred years later, there is dearth of literature on the region. Mindful and adventursome, the author paid acute attention to detail. The journals are much more that exhaustive notes of botanical interest, they are packed with appealing anecdotes and significant sociological ...