Search Results: amaryllidaceae by herbert william introduction

Verlag J Cramer, Lehre, 1970. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Cloth, F. [vi]+93+viii+428pp, b/w frontis, 48pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy. publishers series - Historiæ Naturalis Classica vol LXXIX. A facsimile of Herbert's 1837 work on the Amaryllidaceae, or Amaryllis family of flowering plants. The Hon. William Herbert [ 1778 - 1847 ] British botanist noted for this work. Charles Darwin wrote, on Natural Selection in his Origin of the Species ' In regard to plants, no one has treated this subject with more spirit and ability than W Herbert, Dean of Manchester, evidently the result of his great horticultural knowledge'.