Book ID: 9984
Turner,W.
Libellus de Re Herbaria.1538 & The Names of Herbs.1548. (Reprint 1965).275 p.gr8vo.Cloth.-Including new introductory matter by James Britten,B.Daydon Jackson and W.T.Stearn.
William Turner (c.1508-1568), clergyman, physician, herbalist andnaturalist, has long been honoured as the ' father' of British botany.being unquestinable the earliest writer among us, that discoveredlearning and critical judgement in the study of plants.His two worksreprinted here contain the first records of the occurrence of manyplants in England, together with their vernacular names.