 | Medicine - 1844 - 612 pages
...England was different from that used in other countries, that often plants considered as varieties were held to be distinct species abroad, that several...into genera was frequently essentially different." (Preface, p. 5.) Mr. Babington then traces these discrepancies to their true source — the exclusive... | |
 | Botany - 1895 - 420 pages
...subsequent editions, were printed. Babington tells us that, having taken up British Botany, he " had not advanced far in the critical examination of our native...them, and also that the mode of grouping into genera * Babington's account ol this visit will be found in Mag. Nat. Hist, is, 119-130 (1836). was frequently... | |
 | 1844 - 900 pages
...Babington found it necessary to make a careful comparison of the British with the continental flora ; " for it appeared that in very many cases the nomenclature...distinct species abroad, that several of our species were looked upon only as varieties by them, and also that the mode of grouping into genera was frequently... | |
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had not advanced far in the critical examination of our native plants before he found that a careful comparison of indigenous specimens with the works of eminent continental authors, and with plants obtained from other parts of Europe, must necessarily... 