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A textbook of general botany is a botany book first published in 1924 by Gilbert M. Smith (1885 – 1959), James B. Overton , Edward M. Gilbert, Rollin H. Denniston, George S. Bryan and Charles E. Allen. The textbook gives a broad introduction to the various elements and concepts of general botany.
Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
The Virtual Library of Botany High quality pictures of plants and information about them from Catholic University of Leuven Curtis's Botanical Magazine , 1790–1856
In its first year, the biennial plant undergoes primary growth, during which its vegetative structures (leaves, stems, and roots) develop. Usually, the stem of the plant remains short and the leaves are low to the ground, forming a rosette. After one year's growing season, the plant enters a period of dormancy for the colder
Botany, also called plant science or phytology, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially their anatomy, taxonomy, and ecology. [1] A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field.
Publication year notes English (USA) Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2012: 2nd edition 2017 English (UK) One World: 2012: 2nd edition 2017 English (Australia) Scribe: 2012: 2nd edition 2017 Japanese: Kawade Shobo Shinsha: 2012: Chinese (simplified) Beijing Mediatime Books 2012: 2nd edition, 2018 Hebrew: Matar: 2013: 2nd edition ...
It was first proposed in a talk to the Danish Botanical Society in 1904 as can be inferred from the printed discussion of that talk, but not the talk itself, nor its title. The journal, Botanisk Tidsskrift, published brief comments on the talk by M.P. Porsild, with replies by Raunkiær. A fuller account appeared in French the following year. [1]
The first systematic attempt to collect information on British plants was that of Thomas Johnson (1629), [58] [59] who was later to issue his own revision of Gerard's work (1633–1636). [60] However, Johnson was not the first apothecary or physician to organise botanical expeditions to systematise their local flora.