WE opened this little book with pleasure, hoping to find in it an addition to the too few popular manuals of botany, and the pleasure was increased by recognising at the end some familiar and ...

THE want of special works introductory to the study of the botany of the principal tropical and southern countries of the globe has long been felt. The medical man, the student, and the amateur ...

Winterfat, Feathery False Solomons-Seal, Hairy Beggarticks, Stinking Brickelbush, Parry’s Lousewort, Spotted Lady’s-Thumb, Scrambled Eggs, Giant Lousewort. These names could easily moonlight as the ...

Decades of searching uncovered the brilliantly illustrated plants and detailed notes made by a U.S. woman living in Cuba in the 1800s. Caesalpinia pulcherrima is a species of flowering shrub found in ...