Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Volumes 13-14Torrey Botanical Club., 1886 - Botany Its primary goal is the dissemination of scientific knowledge about plants (in the broad sense of both plants and fungi). It publishes basic research in all areas of plant biology except horticulture, with emphasis on research done in, and about plants of, the Western Hemisphere. |
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