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    Volume 6: Thymeleae to Dioscorideae
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    May 2012
    December 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139096065
    9781108037433
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139096065
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    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.62kg, 488 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Botanical Reference
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Botanical Reference
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    George Bentham (1800–84) was one of Britain's most influential botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of Ferdinand Mueller (1825–96), a German botanist in Australia - Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 6, published in 1873, describes 20 orders of flora in the classes dicotyledon and monocotyledon.

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