Botanical books available to download from the internet

摘要

Over the last year or two we have had cause to consult many old county floras and other botanical works, and have found that there is an immense amount that has been digitised and is available to freely download. The selection is certainly eclectic, but, to give very brief examples, we have been able to access about 50 Victorian floras, almost the whole of the Journal of Botany, the whole of Sowerby, various editions of Hudson, Lightfoot, Hooker and Smith, Aiton's Hortus Kewensis, Turner & Dillwyn, Miller's Gardener's Dictionary and about 100 others. Works are predominately from the 19th century and earlier, but some early 20th century works are available too, such as Gunther's Early British botanists.