Lindley system

An early system of plant taxonomy, the Lindley system, was published by John Lindley in An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany (1830).[1]

The schema is shown on pages xxxv and xxxvii-xlviii.[2] Pages in the Vegetable Kingdom (1846),[3] his final work, are shown in [square brackets], the schema for that work is on pp. lv–lxviii

Summary

Schema[4]

Flowering plants

Summary p. xxxvii[2]

Dicotyledons

Monocotyledons

Tribe I Petaloideae

Tripetaloideae

Tripetaloideae (8 orders)[8]

Hexapetaloideae

Hexapetaloideae (17 orders)[9]

Spadiceae

Spadiceae (7 orders)[10]

Alliances in the Vegetable Kingdom

Tribe II Glumaceae

Flowerless plants

His final schemata is illustrated in the Vegetable Kingdom, his last work, on pages lv-lxvii.[13] In this work he also reviews all his previous publications relative to the many known systems published at that time.

References

Bibliography

Lindley continued to refine and expand his classification, and published updates in (summaries printed in the Vegetable Kingdom are in the links below):

Lindley (1833). Nixus Plantarum. 
(available online at BHL)
Lindley (1836). A Natural System of Botany, second edition. 
(available online at BHL)
Lindley (1838). Article "Exogens" in the Penny Cyclopedia. 
(available online at BHL)
Lindley (1839). Botanical Register, p. 77, Miscellaneous Matter. 
(available online at BHL)
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