Flora Medica: A Botanical Account of All the More Important Plants Used in Medicine, in Different Parts of the World

by John Lindley

Book Overview

John Lindley (1799-1865) was an English botanist and a leading authority on orchids. He attended Norwich Grammar School but was unable to afford university. Lindley's passion for botany helped him into the position of assistant in the herbarium of the naturalist and explorer Sir Joseph Banks. He soon established himself as a botanist of considerable talent, and was elected to the Linnean Society of London at the age of twenty-one. In 1822 he became...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110803845X
• ISBN13: 9781108038454
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"