AN 
ENCYCLOPEDIA 
PLANTS; 
COMrRISING ^1^,^ 
THE DESCRIPTION, SPECIFIC CHARAC 
CULTURE, HISTORY, APPLICATION IN THE ARTS, 
ANd EVERY OTHER DESIRABLE PARTICULAR RESPECTING 
ALL THE PLANTS 
INDIGENOUS, CULTIVATED IN, OR INTRODUCED TO 
BRITAIN: 
COMBINING 
ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF A LINNEAN AND JUSSIEUEAN SPECIES PLANTARUM, 
AN" HISTORIA PLANTARUM, A GRAMMAR OF BOTANY, 
AND A DlCTIONx\RY OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE CULTURE. 
WITH THE SYNONYMES OP THE COMMONER PLANTS IN THE DIFFERENT EUROPEAN 
AND OTHER LANGUAGES; 
THE SCIENTIFIC NAMES ACCENTUATED, THEIR ETYMOLOGIES EXPLAINED; 
THE CLASSES, ORDERS, AND BOTANICAL TERMS ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS 
AND WITH 
FIGURES OF NEARLY TEN THOUSAND SPECIES, 
EXEMPLIFYING SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS BELONGING TO EVERY GENUS INCLUDED 
IN THE WORK. 
Edited by J. C.LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &c. 
THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS BY AN EMINENT BOTANIST 
THE DRAWINGS BY J. D. C. SOWERBY, F.L.S. ; AND 
THE ENGRAVINGS BY R. BRANSTON. 
LONDON: 
PRINTED FOR 
LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, 
PATERNOSTER-ROW. 
1829'. 
