The Green Library: 26 Classic Books to Enrich Your Botanical Knowledge
Classic Writings on Plant Science, Wildflowers, Forests, Ecology, and EvolutionBy S. Leonard Bastin, Huron H. Smith, Charles C. P. Hobkirk, Henry A. Gleason, Charles Emerson Sanborn, Ernest E. Scholl, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Mrs. Loudon, G. F. Scott Elliot, Charles Clemon Deam, Alphonse de Candolle, Annie Lorrain Smith, Robert H. Mohlenbrock, E. E. Nuuttila, Wilbur R. Mattoon, George D. Fuller, Robert B. Miller, C. B. Webster, Jacob Levison, A. B. Brooks, George Francis Atkinson, Lorin Low Dame, Henry M. Brooks, Edward Step, K. Rangachari, C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Frances Parsons, Charles Otis, Norman Taylor, Maxwell Masters, Julius Sachs, Isaac Bayley Balfour
Length238h 32m
About this audiobook
The Green Library gathers twenty-six classic botanical works into a capacious survey of plant life as science, craft, and cultural inheritance. Its selections range from field guides and floras to studies in taxonomy, ecology, forestry, plant physiology, fungi, and the practical identification of trees and wildflowers. Technical observation sits beside lucid popular exposition, while landmark discussions of variation, plant geography, and vegetation reveal botany's changing intellectual horizons. Particularly compelling are the volume's convergences of meticulous specimen-based description with broader accounts of adaptation, classification, and human relations to the natural world. The contributors represent a wide international and historical community of botanists, naturalists, educators, foresters, and scientific popularizers. Their combined work traces the maturation of modern botanical inquiry from nineteenth-century systematics and imperial-era plant exploration through evolutionary thought, ecological method, and twentieth-century conservation-minded field science. Voices attentive to regional floras, useful plants, fungal life, and botanical instruction ensure that the collection does not reduce the discipline to laboratory theory. Instead, it demonstrates how observation, naming, cultivation, and environmental awareness mutually shaped botanical knowledge. This volume is especially recommended for students, gardeners, historians of science, and readers seeking a rich introduction to botanical literature. By placing diverse methods and styles in dialogue, it offers both educational breadth and a sustained invitation to see plants more carefully.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length238 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Synopsis of the British Mosses
2A Synopsis of the British Mosses
3PREFACE.
4LIST OF CONTRACTIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME.
5NOTICE TO COLLECTORS.
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6ANALYSIS OF GENERA.
7DIVISION I. ACROCARPI. (Genera 1–72.)
850. BRYUM. H. & T.
9DIVISION II. PLEUROCARPI.
10APPENDIX.
11GLOSSARY OF THE PRINCIPAL TERMS USED IN THIS VOLUME.
12INDEX TO GENERA AND SYNONYMS.
13How to Know the Ferns
14How to Know the Ferns
15CHAPTER I THE FERNS AND THEIR ALLIES
16CHAPTER V THE BRACKEN FERN AND TWO INTERESTING SPECIES
17CHAPTER VIII THE POLYPODIES
18CHAPTER XII THE HORSETAILS
19How to Know the Ferns
20How to Know the Ferns
21PREFACE
22WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND FERNS
23FERN DESCRIPTIONS
24GROUP IV FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND SIMILAR; SPORANGIA ON OR BENEATH A REFLEXED PORTION OF THE MARGIN
25GROUP VI FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND USUALLY SIMILAR, FRUIT-DOTS ROUND
26INDEX TO LATIN NAMES
27INDEX TO TECHNICAL TERMS
28A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
29A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
30A HANDBOOK OF SOME COMMON SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES.
31CHAPTER IV. HISTOLOGY OF THE VEGETATIVE ORGANS.
32CHAPTER V. CLASSIFICATION.
33CHAPTER VII. TRIBES II AND III—ORYZEÆ AND ZOYSIEÆ.
34CHAPTER VIII. TRIBE IV—ANDROPOGONEÆ.
35CHAPTER IX. Series II—Poaceæ. TRIBES V AND VI—AGROSTIDEÆ AND CHLORIDEÆ.
36CHAPTER X. TRIBES VII AND VIII—FESTUCACEÆ AND HORDEÆ.
37Transcriber's Notes:
38Trees of Indiana
39Trees of Indiana
40Preface
41PINÀCEAE. The Pine Family.
42JUGLANDÀCEAE. The Walnut Family.
43FAGÀCEAE. The Beech Family.
44ULMÀCEAE. The Elm Family.
45MAGNOLIÀCEAE. The Magnolia Family.
46AMYGDALÀCEAE. The Plum Family.
47FABÀCEAE. The Pea Family.
48CORNÀCEAE. The Dogwood Family.
49BIGNONIÀCEAE. The Trumpet Creeper Family.
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