Botany (Bookshelf)

Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. As a branch of biology, it is also called plant science(s) or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants including: structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development and diseases of plants, chemical properties and evolutionary relationships between different plant groups. The study of plants and botany began with tribal lore, used to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making botany one of the oldest sciences. From this ancient interest in plants, the scope of botany has increased to include the study of over 550,000 kinds or species of living organisms.

—Excerpted from Botany on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

See also Horticulture, The Botanical Magazine, Mycology

Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918

• Wild Flowers
  An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors  (English)
• Wild Flowers Worth Knowing  (English)

Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1822-1898

• Handbook of the Trees of New England  (English)

Cooke, Arthur Owens

• Wildflowers of the Farm  (English)

Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928

• North American Species of Cactus  (English)

Darwin, Charles 1809-1882

• Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom  (English)
• The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species  (English)
• Insectivorous Plants  (English)
• The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants  (English)
• The Power of Movement in Plants  (English)
• Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication -- Volume I  (English)
• Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication -- Volume II  (English)
• Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication   (English)

Darwin, Erasmus 1731-1802

• The Botanic Garden
  A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation  by Erasmus Darwin (English)
• The Botanic Garden. Part II.
  Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes.   (English)

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859

• Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse (German) 

Levison, Jacob Joshua, 1881-

• Studies of Trees 

Linnaeus, Carolus, 1707-1778

• Species Plantarum Sections I-III  (Latin)

McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace), 1859-1948

• Getting Acquainted with the Trees 

Pardo de Tavera, T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo), 1857-1925

• The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines 

Rangachari, K.

• A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses  with Tadulinga Mudaliyar, C.

Schimper, Andreas Franz Wilhelm, 1856-1901

• Die epiphytische Vegetation Amerikas  (German)

Tilton, George Henry, 1845-

• The Fern Lover's Companion
  A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada  (English)

Webster, Angus Duncan

• Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs  (English)

Textbooks

• Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses  (English)
• Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf  (English)