AN

ARRANGEMENT

OF

BRITISH PLANTS.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

C. Baldwin, Printer,

New Bridge-street, London.

AN

ARRANGEMENT

OF

BRITISH PLANTS,

ACCORDING TO

THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS

OF THE

Linnean System ;

WITH AN EASY

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BOTANY. ILLUSTRATED BY COPPER PLATES.

BY WILLIAM WITHERING, M.D. F.R.S.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT LISBON; FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY AT EDINBURGH, &c.

THE SEVENTH EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES:

INCLUDING THE MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES, AND NUMEROUS ENLARGED ANNOTATIONS
ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE VEGETABLE ECONOMY.

BY WILLIAM WITHERING, Esq. LL.D. F.L.S.

EXTRAORDINARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, &c. &c. &c.

"Nor are the Plants, which Britain calls her own,
Few, or unlovely." MASON.

VOL. I.

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1830.

"No science can be prosecuted with so little expense, and with so much advantage, as to the means of acquiring it, as BOTANY; none certainly is at once so subservient to the improvement of both the mental and corporeal powers." JOHNs's PRACT. BOT.

Lately was Published,

BY MESSRS. LONGMAN AND Co.,

In two vols. 8vo., embellished with a highly finished Portrait and Facsimile of the Author of the Arrangement of British Plants,

THE

MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS

OF THE LATE

WILLIAM WITHERING, M.D. F.R.S.

WITH A

MEMOIR

OF HIS

LIFE, CHARACTER, AND WRITINGS;

BY

WILLIAM WITHERING, Esq. LL.D. F.L.S., &c.

"The Biographical Part presents a fine example to Members of the Profession; and the Scientific, a Text Book of original and important observation.-The Tracts and Treatises are not only momentous as to their subjects, but are treated in a form calculated to excite investigation, and to give it a proper direction. Indeed, this work is a truly valuable accession to the Philosophical and Medical Library.”

Review, Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1822.

See also the Monthly Review, Feb. 1824; Select Magazine, 1823, &c.