Beauties of Flora, and Outlines of Botany

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Excerpt from Beauties of Flora, and Outlines of Botany: With a Language of Flowers, A Perennial OfferingThe work is divided into four departments - Floral, Medi cal, Introductory, and Biographical. 0 The first comprises the classification and description of each plant named its history minute cultivation, and ¿oral emblem, spiced with anecdote and original or selected poetry. The second enters fully into the medicinal properties of the plant, mode of preparing its extracts, doses, and sketches, in some cases, of diseases to which it is applicable., with a history of this branch of science, accounts of discoveries, and theory of the operation of medicines on the animal frame. The Introduction com menees with the lowest tribes, and ascends upwards, teach ing the different systems. The Biographical department will be found to contain interesting accounts of the lives and works of eminent living and deceased Botanists.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.