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The earliest systematic botany to survive, describing and classifying the plant world.
The Edition
- Original language
- Greek
- Translated by
- Arthur F. Hort
Publication
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Series volume
- 70
- Date published
- 1916-01-01
- Print status
- In print
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dust jacket
- Yes
- Total pages
- 512 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780674990777
Reference
- Read online
- Read Here
- Publisher page
- View at publisher
Contents
- preface
- introduction
- Book I: of the parts of plants and their composition. of classification
- Introductory: How plants are to be classified; difficulty of defining what are the essential ‘parts’ of a plant, especially if plants are assumed to correspond to animals
- The essential parts of plants, and the materials of which they are made
- Definitions of the various classes into which plants may be divided
- Exact classification impracticable: other possible bases of classification
- Differences as to appearance and habitat
- Characteristic differences in the parts of plants
- Differences as to qualities and properties
- Further ‘special’ differences
- Differences in root
- Of trees (principally) and their characteristic special differences: as to knots
- As to habit
- As to shedding of leaves
- Differences in leaves
- Composition of the various parts of a plant
- Differences in seeds
- Differences in taste
- Differences in flowers
- Differences in fruits
- General differences (affecting the whole plant)
- Book II: of propagation, especially of trees
- Of the ways in which trees and plants originate. Instances of degeneration from seed
- Effects of situation, climate, tendance
- Of spontaneous changes in the character of trees, and of certain marvels
- Of spontaneous and other changes in other plants
- Of methods of propagation, with notes on cultivation
- Of the propagation of the date-palm; of palms in general
- Further notes on the propagation of trees
- Of the cultivation of trees
- Of remedies for the shedding of the fruit: caprification
- Book III: of wild trees
- Of the ways in which wild trees originate
- Of the differences between wild and cultivated trees
- Of mountain trees: of the differences found in wild trees
- Of the times of budding and fruiting of wild, as compared with cultivated, trees
- Of the seasons of budding
- Of the comparative rate of growth in trees, and of the length of their roots
- Of the effects of cutting down the whole or part of a tree
- Of other things borne by trees besides their leaves, flowers and fruit
- Of ‘male’ and ‘female’ in trees: the oak as an example of this and other differences
- Of the differences in firs
- Of beech, yew, hop-hornbeam, lime
- Of maple and ash
- Of cornelian cherry, cornel, ‘cedars,’ medlar, thorns, sorb
- Of bird-cherry, elder, willow
- Of elm, poplars, alder, [semyda. bladder-senna]
- Of filbert, terebinth, box, krataigos
- Of certain other oaks, arbutus, andrachne, wig-tree
- Of cork-oak, kolutea, koloitia, and of certain other trees peculiar to particular localities
- Of the differences in various shrubs
- Book IV: of the trees and plants special to particular districts and positions
- Of the importance of position and climate
- Of the trees special to Egypt, and of the carob
- Of the trees and shrubs special to Libya
- Of the trees and herbs special to Asia
- Of the plants special to northern regions
- Of the aquatic plants of the Mediterranean
- Of the aquatic plants of the ‘outer sea’ (i.e. Atlantic, Persian Gulf, etc.)
- Of the plants of rivers, marshes, and lakes, especially in Egypt
- Of the plants peculiar to the lake of Orchomenos (Lake Copaïs), especially its reeds
- Of rushes
- Of the length or shortness of the life of plants, and the causes
- Of diseases and injuries done by weather conditions
- Of the effects on trees of removing bark, head, heart-wood, roots, etc
- Book V: of the timber of various trees and its uses
- Of the seasons of cutting
- Of the wood of silver-fir and fir
- Of the effects on timber of climate
- Of knots and ’coiling’ in timber
- Of differences in the texture of different woods
- Of differences in timber as to hardness and heaviness
- Of differences in the keeping quality of timber
- Which kinds of wood are easy and which hard to work. Of the core and its effects
- Which woods can best support weight
- Of the woods best suited for the carpenter’s various purposes
- Of the woods used in ship-building
- Of the woods used in house-building
- Of the uses of the wood of particular trees
- Of the localities in which the best timber grows
- Of the uses of various woods in making fire: charcoal, fuel, fire-sticks