Botany is an old science, one branch of which, taxonomy, antedates recorded history. In fact, the early Chinese, Egyptian, and Assyrian cultures were based, to a degree, on cultivated plants (Porter, 1959). The early developers of systematic botany included Theophrastus (370 - 287 B.C. ), Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 A.D.), and Dioscorides (lst century, A.D.). Theophrastus, the "father of botany," classified plants according to the growth habit. Thus he had four groups: barbs, undershrubs, shrubs, and trees.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.117787 |
| Date | January 1965 |
| Creators | Galang, Marilyn Marie. |
| Contributors | Gibbs, R. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Botany.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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