CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and EtymologyThe 'CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names', a four volume set, is the most comprehensive work of its kind available today. The reader will find its coverage absorbing and useful. Umberto Quattrocchi, was awarded the prestigious Hanbury Botanical Garden Award for his studies on flowers and gardens. |
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Greek male armhole and phoros bearing carrying | 1996 |
Malleola J J Smith Schlechter Orchidaceae | 2034 |
anus The plant names published by C S Rafinesque etc Greek mallos wool a lock of wool and phyton plant | 2048 |
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1753 and Genera Acanthaceae anthos flower Apocynaceae Arboretum of Harvard Arnold Arboretum Asclepiadaceae Asteraceae Origins Aufl Australia Benth Bignoniaceae Biographical Dictionary Biographical Notes Blume botanischen Pflanzennamen Botanists Represented Botany Brassicaceae Brassicaceae Origins Buchheim C.S. Rafinesque Carl Linnaeus Catalogue China Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Dictionary of Botanists E.D. Merrill E.M. Tucker Encke English Euphorbiaceae Euphorbiaceae Origins Fabaceae Fabaceae Origins Flora Flowering Plants genus Gramineae Origins grass Greek Greek mikros small Greek pseudes false Handworterbuch der Pflanzennamen Harvard University Hook.f Hunt Institute Portrait Ida Kaplan Langman Index rafinesquianus Institute Portrait Collection J.H. Barnhart Japan John H John Torrey Latin Library London Melastomataceae Muell Myrtaceae Notes upon Botanists Orchidaceae Origins Paris Peru Philadelphia 1964 plant collector Plants of Mexico referring Rubiaceae Rubiaceae Origins Scrophulariaceae Selected Guide Seybold South Africa Southern Africa Species/Vernacular Names Stafleu and Cowan Stuttgart 1993 T.W. Bossert Taxonomic Literature Telluriana Thunb Umbelliferae Origins Yoruba Zander
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