Systematically enumerated in the main text are over 1000 species belonging to
about 100 families of several genera of the British botanical riches, divided
into three main classes: dicotyledons, Monocotyledons and Vascular Cryptogams.
For each of the species there are details comprising of the Latin and English
names an indication of the botanists who fixed the species name, the
geographical area of the species, the period of flowering, and some observations
on its varieties, etc. With a meticulously compiled glossary of terms, keys to
orders and genera and an exhaustive index to ordinal generic and popular names,
this celebrated work still holds its utility and attraction for