A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain : With Descriptions of the Genera and Species, According to the System of the Celebrated Linnaeus

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This two-volume milestone work of 1776 by William Withering was the first systematic botanical guide in English to British native plants. It uses and extends the Linnaean system of classification, and the bulk of the work consists of descriptions of the appearance, qualities and uses of hundreds of plants.