Botanical Lectures (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)
Cambridge University Press, 3/20/2014
EAN 9781108067027, ISBN10: 1108067026
Paperback, 388 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
This reissue contains two works by the botanist Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755–1829), a Cheshire clergyman's daughter. Her interest in science, and especially botany, may have been encouraged by a family connection with Erasmus Darwin, but it was not until she was in her forties that domestic circumstances drove her to professional writing. In 1797 she published Botanical Dialogues, between Hortensia and her Four Children, an introduction to the Linnaean system for use in schools. This technically rather demanding work was recast for adults in 1804 as Botanical Lectures: 'a complete elementary system, which may enable the student of whatever age to surmount those difficulties, which hitherto have too frequently impeded the perfect acquirement of this interesting science'. The more practical Florist's Manual (1816) was aimed at female gardeners, offering advice on garden design and the war against pests as well as notes on plants and cultivation.
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Analysis of the first part of the botanical lectures
Analysis of the second part
Part I
Lecture 1. The seven parts of fructification explained
Lecture 2. A flower dissected
the different kinds of fulcra and inflorescence explained
Lecture 3. The first eighteen classes, with their orders, explained
Lecture 4. Examination of flowers belonging to different classes. The classes 19, 20, 21 and 22, explained
Lecture 5. Class Polygamia explained
Caprification. Class Cryptogamia explained
Part II
Lecture 1. Genera of plants
Lecture 2. Nectaries of plants
Lecture 3. Investigation of different genera of the classes one-house and two-houses. Of ferns
Lecture 4. On the mosses, flags, and funguses. Musci, algae and fungi
Lecture 5. On the grasses
Lecture 6. Specific distinctions, and double flowers
The Florist's Manual
A catalogue of common herbaceous plants.