This book contains a classic guide to setting up, maintaining, and
studying specimens in a herbarium, originally written for naturalists
and amateur enthusiasts. A herbarium is a collection of preserved plant
specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The term can
also refer to the building or room where the specimens are housed, or to
the scientific institute that not only stores but uses them for
research. This volume is highly recommended for those with a practical
interest in creating and maintaining their own herbarium, as well as
those interested in the subject of botany in general. Contents include:
"The Herbarium", "How to Collect, and Where to Find the Plants", "On
Pressing, Drying, and Mounting Plants", "How to Name the Plants and
Arrange the Herbarium", "Arrangement of Plants According to the Natural
System of Botany", "The Cryptogamous, of Flowering Plants", etc. Many
vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is
with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now complete with
a specially-commissioned new introduction on botany.