John Ray, Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum (1690)
Date
1690
Author
John
Ray
Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum In Qua tum Notæ Generum Characteristicæ traduntur, tum Species singulae breviter describuntur: Ducentae quinquaginta plus minus novæ Species partim suis locis inferuntur, partim in Appendice seorsim exhibentur. Cum Indice & Virium Epitome
Publication place
London
Publisher
Samuel Smith
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- herbal
- Latin
Summary
Latin treatise whose entries often have English translations of names of herbs, but whose long index seldom does
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: Latin
other languages: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
other languages: English
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Juncus lævis Holoschœnos 2, sive juncus maximus & scirpus major C. B. In the great Laguna in the Caymunes, and in several such places of this Island very plentifully. (p. 250; of Jamaica)
sample: Juncus lævis Holoschœnos 2, sive juncus maximus & scirpus major C. B. In the great Laguna in the Caymunes, and in several such places of this Island very plentifully. (p. 250; of Jamaica)
Alston
XVII.I.369
Wing
R406
Other editions
1696: Wing R407 (Alston XVII.I.370)
Criticisms
Arber, Agnes. "A Seventeenth-century Naturalist: John Ray." Isis 34 (1943): 319-24.
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