Michael Hickey - The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms-(2001)

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated glossary comprises over 2400 terms commonly used to describe vascular plants. The majority are structural terms referring to parts of plants visible with the naked eye or with a xlO hand lens, but some elementary microscopical and physiological terms are also included, as appropriate. Each term is defined accurately and concisely, and whenever possible, cross referenced to clearly labelled line drawings made mainly from living material. The illustrations are presented together in a section comprising 127 large format pages, within which they are grouped according to specific features, such as leaf shape or flower structure, so allowing comparison of different forms at a glance. In addition to supporting the definitions, the illustrations therefore also provide a unique compilation of information that can be referred to independently of the definitions. This makes the glossary a particularly versatile reference work for all those needing a guide to botanical terminology, equally useful to beginners as well as to those more advanced in their botanical knowledge.

Michael hickey trained in botany and horticulture, including a period at the University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, before embarking on a teaching career that has spanned over 40 years, ranging from teaching biology to school children through to instructing adults in basic botany and the art of botanical illustration. Awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Silver Gilt and Silver Lindley Medals for his pen and ink drawings, he has exhibited in the UK and the USA and has contributed illustrations to numerous publications. He is author of Plant Names: A Guide for Botanical Artists (1993), Drawing Plants in Pen and Ink (1994), and Botany for Beginners (1999). With Clive King, he has co-authored 100 Familes of Flowering Plants (1981, 1988) and Common Families of Flowering Plants (1997).

clive king spent over thirty years at the University Botanic Garden, Cambridge as Assistant Taxonomist and Librarian. During that time he was involved in the identification of plants belonging to a wide range of families, the botanical instruction of the annual intake of students, and the day-to-day running of the specialist library housed there. He has translated Collins Guide to Tropical Plants (1983) and Collins Photoguide to the Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean (1990), and has co-translated Collins Photographic Key to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe (1988), all from the original editions in German. With Michael Hickey he has co-authored 100 Families of Flowering Plants (1981, 1988) and Common Families of Flowering Plants (1997).

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The collaboration between Michael Hickey and Clive King, authors of this new Glossary, has become a very familiar facet of the life of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, and the small part I have been able to play over the years in furthering this productive partnership has given me continuing pleasure.

This entirely new book represents a logical further step in the concern of the authors to supply the increasing educated public interested in the naming and classification of vascular plants with the tools of their trade. Technical terms, derived almost exclusively from the classical languages of Latin and Greek, are indispensable if we wish to proceed beyond a very superficial knowledge of the great variety of plants in gardens or in nature, and I feel very confident that this carefully constructed illustrated Glossary will meet all our needs -including my own, as I continue, in old age, to enjoy my expert hobby as much as I ever did.

I commend the book unreservedly to you, the next generation, for whom it is designed.

S.M. Walters,
Formerly Director,
University Botanic Garden,
Cambridge

We would like to express our appreciation and thanks to Dr S.M. Walters for his encouragement and helpful comments, and for consenting to write the Foreword to this book. We would also like to thank Professor John Parker, Director of the University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, for enabling us to use the facilities within the Botanic Garden and Cory Library, as well as for spending his valuable time looking through the manuscript. We are also grateful for the advice generously given by Dr James Cullen, Director of the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, and by Caroline Poole, teacher of biology at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and for the help provided by the staff of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.

In particular we would like to thank Robert King for his expert use of computer equipment which resulted in the production of the camera-ready copy, and also Diane Hudman, who had the complex job of labelling all the illustrations.

Finally, we are indebted to Dr Maria Murphy of Cambridge University Press for her much appreciated advice and assistance with the layout of this book.

Most glossaries are found on a few pages at the end of text-books, floras, monographs, and other botanical works, and these are often only partially illustrated, and sometimes not at all. We have tried to fill this gap by producing an independent and well illustrated glossary that includes all the terms most commonly used in describing vascular plants, as well as some that are found in more specialised works.
In addition to morphological terms, referring to parts of plants visible with the naked eye or with a hand lens of x10 magnification, we have included some elementary histological, cytological, and genetical terms found in the more general books on botany. Chemical terms, however, have been largely excluded, as it was felt that these were outside the scope of this book.
The definition of each term has been kept brief, but this has been supplemented wherever possible by a line drawing.
The illustrations are for the most part original, and have been drawn from living material. Many of these have a naturalistic rendering, though some, by necessity, are diagrammatic. In a few cases, we have had to make adaptations of existing drawings, either because suitable specimens could not be obtained, or because a particular illustration could not be improved upon.