Manual Of British Botany

This is a book about British plants, compiled by Charles Cardale Babington over a period of nine years. It is a comprehensive catalogue of British plants, with both the Latin nomenclature assigned at the time and the common English or anglicised name. It is divided into natural orders according to the Linnaean system, and each plant is described in great technical detail. There is also a glossary included to help the reader navigate the descriptions.

First published in 1843, this book ran to eleven editions, with two published posthumously. Compiled by Cambridge botanist Charles Cardale Babington (1808-95) over the course of nine years, this was the first comprehensive catalogue of British plants for nearly a century and was conveniently pocket-sized for fieldwork. Babington was by this time the leader in the taxonomical research of higher plants. Providing both the Latin nomenclature assigned at the time and the common English or anglicised name, he divides plants according to the Linnaean natural orders and describes them in great technical detail. A useful glossary is also included to help the reader navigate the descriptions. As demonstrated in Memorials, Journal and Botanical Correspondence (also reissued in this series), Babington was a highly esteemed and influential scientist. This is the expanded 1904 ninth edition of his invaluable and enduring compendium.