Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
This book was written based on notes from which the author gave lectures. Consequently, words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below. Obsolete spelling was retained. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, reversed, dropped, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Repeated words over line breaks were removed. An ñ was substituted for an n with a macron.
Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Book II, Chapter 3, omits paragraph 10 §. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially. The table of generic differences of flavors was reformatted to fit narrower screens. A few page numbers in the index were corrected to match the related text.
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added missing letters “seve” to “several” ... in the several Parcels ...
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The following overall Table of Contents to the book was added by the transcriber for the convenience of readers.
PREFACE
An IDEA of a Philosphical History of Plants
Book 1 - The Anatomy of Plants
Of the Seed in its State of Vegetation
Of the Root
Of the Trunk
Of the Germen, Branch, and Leaf
Of the Flower
Of the Fruit
Of the Seed, in its State of Generation
Book 2, Part 1 - The Anatomy of Roots
Of the Original, Figures, Motions and Ages of Roots
Of the Skin of Roots
Of the Barque
Of the Wood
Of the Pith
Book 2, Part 2 - Vegetation of Roots
Book 3, Part 1 - Anatomy of Trunks
Description of Trunks, to the bare eye
Of the Barque, through a microscope
Of the Wood
Of the Pith
Book 3, Part 2 - Vegetation of Trunks
Of the Motion and Course of the Sap
Of the Motion and Course of the Aer
Of the Structure of the Parts
Of the Generation of Liquors
Of the Figuration of Trunks
Of the Motions of Trunks
Of the Nature of Timber or Trunks
Book 4 - Anatomy of Leaves, Flowers, Fruits and Seeds
Anatomy of Leaves
Anatomy of Flowers
Anatomy of Fruits
Anatomy of Seeds
LECTURES
Mixture
Luctation
Lixivial Salts
Marine Salts
Colours of Plants
Tasts in Plants
Salts in Water
INDEX
EXPLICATION OF TABLES
TABLES
At a Meeting of the Council of the ROYAL SOCIETY, Feb. 22. 1681/2
DR. Grew having read several Lectures of the Anatomy of Plants, some whereof have been already printed at divers times, and some are not printed; with several other Lectures of their Colours, Odours, Tasts, and Salts; as also of the Solution of Salts in Water; and of Mixture; all of them to the satisfaction of the said Society: It is therefore Ordered, That He be desired, to cause them to printed together in one Volume.
Chr. Wren P.R.S.