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The first translation into English, with an introduction and parallel Greek and English texts, was made by Sir Arthur Hort (1864–1935). It was published simultaneously by William Heinemann in London and G. P. Putnam's Sons in New York, as a two-volume book Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants and minor works on odours and weather signs in 1916.
Species Plantarum [Note 1] was published on 1 May 1753 by Laurentius Salvius in Stockholm, in two volumes. [1] [2] [Note 2] A second edition was published in 1762–1763, [1] and a third edition in 1764, although this "scarcely differed" from the second. [4]
The first of the 12 volumes of the book was published in 1678, and the last in 1703. It is believed to be one of the earliest printed works on the flora of Asia and the tropics , after Garcia de Orta's " Colóquios dos simples e drogas he cousas medicinais da Índia " (Goa, 1563) and the most comprehensive among them.
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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.
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.
A germination rate experiment. Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. [1]Plant physiologists study fundamental processes of plants, such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tropisms, nastic movements, photoperiodism, photomorphogenesis, circadian rhythms, environmental stress physiology, seed ...