The botanist and horticulturalist John Lindley (1799-1865) worked
for Sir Joseph Banks, and was later instrumental in saving the
Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. He was a
prolific author of works for gardening practitioners but also for a
non-specialist readership, and many of his books have been reissued
in this series. This 1829 work is a classification of British
plants using the 'natural' system of the French botanist Antoine
Laurent de Jussieu, which Lindley firmly supported, believing that
the Linnaean system was both inaccurate and had 'almost disappeared
from every country but our own'. Lindley describes genera and
species in English, but using a uniform, standard vocabulary, and
gives the alternative Latin names proposed by taxonomists including
Smith, Curtis, Linnaeus, and the Hortus Kewensis. He also offers
tables showing the components of each genus, and substantial
indexes giving both Latin and English common names of the plants
discussed.
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