BOTANICAL MISCELLANY; CONTAINING FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SUCH PLANTS AS RECOMMEND THEMSELVES BY THEIR NOVELTY, RARITY, OR HISTORY, OR BY THE USES TO WHICH THEY ARE APPLIED IN THE ARTS, IN MEDICINE, AND IN DOMESTIC ECONOMY; TOGETHER WITH OCCASIONAL BOTANICAL NOTICES AND INFORMATION. BY WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, LL.D., F.R. A. & L. S., &c. &c. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF Glasgow. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXX. Pt. 1, pp. 1-96, tt. i-xxx: (s. 18 11 21 2, pp. 13:1 TO THE HONOURABLE THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, AS A TESTIMONY OF THE IMPORTANT SERVICES RENDERED TO SCIENCE IN THEIR PRINCELY PATRONAGE OF BOTANY, BY WHICH THE PLANTS OF THE VAST POSSESSIONS UNDER THEIR SWAY, ESPECIALLY THE MOre interESTING AND USEFUL KINDS, HAVE BEEN MADE KNOWN AND MUNIFICENTLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD, THE PRESENT WORK IS DEDICATED, WITH SENTIMENTS OF The highest ADMIRATION AND ESTEEM, BY THEIR OBEDIENT AND VERY humble seRVANT, W. J. HOOKER, LL. D. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. |