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By LEO H. GRINDON, 



Lecturer on Botany at the Royal School of Medicine, Manchester; Author of the "Manchester 

 Flora," " Manchester Walks and Wild-Flowers," " Life," " Figurative Language," &c. 



Price 3s, 60?. ; elegantly hound and gilt, 4s. 



A MANUAL OF ERITISH AND FOREIGN PLANTS, 



WITH THEIR 



LATIN AND ENGLISH NAMES, 



Litended to facilitate the progress of the Botanical Student, and to serve various other useful 

 purposes, as pointed out in tlie Introduction, from which we quote : — 



DESIGN AND USES OF THIS VOLUME. 

 This volume contains the name of every flowering-plant and fern indigenous to the British Islands, 

 and of every curious, favourite, and useful flower, fern, tree, and culinary vegetable ordinarily culti- 

 vated in our country. It likewise includes the names of all plants yielding substances of importance, 

 either for human food, or for the purposes of art and medicine, whether produced in Great Britain or 

 in foreign countries ; those also of the plants which yield the botanical curiosities commonly found in 

 museums ; and those of the trees and flowers celebrated in literature, mythology, and holy writ, the 

 total number mentioned being 5, .500. 



The main object of the book is to provide persons who wish to acquire such knowledge, with the 

 means of readily learning the Latin name of a plant when the English one is known, or the English 

 one when the Latin is known. In the body of the work the names are placed in scientific order; the 

 Index at the end gives them all OA cr again, alphabetically. There are no descriptions of plants ; 

 the book does not pretend to show the way to a name by pomtraying the form and appearance of the 

 plants it enumerates ; it proposes merely to give roundness and completeness to knowledge already 

 possessed, and partakes of the nature of a descriptive Flora only in respect of the names being 

 marshalled in their respective families, or "Natm-al Orders." When the family is not very extensive, 

 and we know or believe that a given plant, the name of which we want, is a member of it, this is 

 often a sufficient clue. 



Being arranged according to the Natural System, a ready view is also obtained of the extent 

 and contents of the various families of plants, and of their relative value and general properties. 

 Turning, for instance, to the Leguminosae or Pea Family, we learn, from the column of English 

 names, what plants are contained in it that are good for food, how many there are yielding medicinal 

 substances, how many others furnish dye-woods, &c., and fonn an idea, at the same time, of the 

 extent to which the family contributes in regard to the beauty of our gardens and greenhouses. By 

 looking down the column of native countries, we perceive also to what parts of the world we are in- 

 debted for the respective bounties, and how many of the species are indigenous to our own island. 



Flowing from these primary uses are the folloAving ; — 



1. Teachers of Botany, when with their pupils in the fields, and asked for the name of a plant, 

 need only turn to it by means of the alphabetical Index, and point out the number, lea\'ing the 

 student to do the rest. Those who have witnessed the efforts of anxious learners to catch an 

 unfamiliar Latin name by ear, and guessing at the orthography, attempt to write it down with pencil 

 on a slip of paper fluttering in the wind, and wet perhaps with rain, will feel the value of a printed 

 catalogue, from which they can seize the information at once, and in which the name can be " ticked 

 off'," if desii'ed, for future reference. 



2. Botanical students can register their progress in knowledge by marking off" the names as fast 

 as they leam the plants. 



3. Collectors can similai'ly register their acquisitions, and refer to them readily, by arranging 

 the specimens in the same order that the names follow in the Manual, and attaching the same num- 

 bers. It will be useful also in exchanging lists and desiderata. 



4. The contents of gardens may be similarly catalogued, and the Floras also of counties and 

 districts. 



5. Visitors to Flower-shows often wish to know the English names and the native countries of 

 beautiful specimens that have only Latin ones attached. In thi^ volume, if such names exist, they 

 will be found. It is to be observed, however, that very many foreign plants, especially those of 

 recent introduction, have no English names, strictly so called. 



THIS BOOK OF ME. GRINLON'S, AND OUR GUIDE TO THE TLOWEE, GARDEN, 



Taken in connection, form a very complete Index to British and Foreign Plants of interest to 

 tlie Botanist, the Florist, and the general student. Mr. Grindon omits the varieties, &c., 

 which are given in the Guide, and the Manual gives the British and Economical Plants for 

 which the Guide was not intended. 



Price 7s. 6d. 



LIFE : ITS NATURE, VARIETIES, AND PHENOMENA. 

 In the Press. Price about 12s. 

 BRITISH AND GARDEN BOTANY : 

 A Complete Descriptive Flora of Great Britain, and Companion for the Flower Garden. 



For ^ lA^ of Cheap and Useful Garden "Manuals for the Many," see "Guide to the Kitchen 

 * Garden," page 38. 



