phytologyn.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A5^v We pretend not to multiply vegetable divisions by Quincuncial and Reticulate plants; or erect a new Phytology.

1673 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 Ep. Ded. 3 Anatomy in several particulars is augmented; and Phytology adorned for a deeper aid towards the discovery of Physiology.

1707 P. Paxton Directory Physico-medical v. 74 Phytology, or the Doctrine of Vegetables, is a copious Subject, as being a Field adorn'd with an almost infinite Number and Variety of very different Substances.

1754 B. Martin Introd. Eng. Lang. & Learning xx. 200 Botany, or Phytology, is a Science that describes the Nature, Kinds, and Properties of Herbs, Plants, and Vegetables, of all Sorts.

1825 E. T. Artis (title) Antediluvian phytology: illustrated by a collection of the fossil remains of plants peculiar to the coal formations of Great Britain.

1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 275 He calls into court Astronomy, Geology, Phytology and Zoology.

1934 Amer. Anthropologist 36 257 The phytology speaks of this as a time of hazel groves.

2002 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 5 Oct. (Final ed.) e2 To answer the questions..a professor of phytology at the Universite Laval, is leading Canada's first in-depth study of genetically engineered farming.