Handbook of the British Flora

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 classes : Dicotyledons, Monocotyledons and Vascular Cryptogams. For each of the species there are details comprising of the Latin and English names, an indication of the botanist who fixed the species name, the geographical area of the species, the period of flowering, and some observations on its varieties, etc. With a meticulously compiled glossary of terms, keys to orders and genera, and an exhaustive index to ordinal generic and popular names, this celebrated work still holds its utility and attraction for the students and scholars of botany.