TY - JOUR AB - Like the classification of animals, botanical classification was formalized by Linnaeus against a background of Aristotelian philosophy and logic. The hierarchical system, with a Latin binomial nomenclature for the unit of the species, has provided for the main purposes of botanical science a reasonably stable reference system in an international language, by means of which information, ideas, and generalizations about plants can be communicated. VL - 14 IS - 8 SN - 0001-253X DO - 10.1108/eb049886 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049886 AU - WALTERS S.M. PY - 1962 Y1 - 1962/01/01 TI - BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION T2 - Aslib Proceedings PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 231 EP - 233 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -