Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs

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W. Heinemann, 1968 - Aromatic plants
In the Enquiry into plants Theophrastus classifies and describes varieties - covering trees, plants of particular regions, shrubs, herbaceous plants, and cereals; in the last of the nine books he focuses on plant juices and medicinal properties of herbs. This edition is in two volumes, the secondd contains two additional treatises: On Odours and Weather Signs. -- Jacket.

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Contents

OF THE PARTS OF PLANTS AND THEIR COMPOSITION
3
The essential parts of plants and the materials of which
9
Definitions of the various classes into which plants
23

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Bibliographic information

TitleEnquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs
Volume 1 of Enquiry Into Plants: And Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs, Sir Arthur Hort
Loeb classical library
AuthorTheophrastus
Translated bySir Arthur Hort
PublisherW. Heinemann, 1968
ISBN0674990773, 9780674990777
  
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