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Plant names : a guide to botanical nomenclature
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ISBN: 128315529X 9786613155290 0643097163 9780643097162 9780643094406 0643094407 9781845933746 1845933745 064309945X 6613155292 Year: 2007 Publisher: Melbourne : Collingwood, Vic. : Wallingford [England] : Royal Botanic Gardens ; CSIRO Publishing ; CABI,

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Plant Names is a plain English guide to the use of plant names and the conventions for writing them.


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Gods and goddesses in the garden
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ISBN: 1282272756 9786613815156 0813544726 9780813544724 9781282272750 6613815152 9780813542669 0813542669 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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Zeus, Medusa, Hercules, Aphrodite. Did you know that these and other dynamic deities, heroes, and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology live on in the names of trees and flowers? Some grow in your local woodlands or right in your own backyard garden. In this delightful book, botanist Peter Bernhardt reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names. Unlike other books about botanical taxonomy that take the form of heavy and intimidating lexicons, Bernhardt's account comes together in a series of interlocking stories. Each chapter opens with a short version of a classical myth, then links the tale to plant names, showing how each plant "resembles" its mythological counterpart with regard to its history, anatomy, life cycle, and conservation. You will learn, for example, that as our garden acanthus wears nasty spines along its leaf margins, it is named for the nymph who scratched the face of Apollo. The shape-shifting god, Proteus, gives his name to a whole family of shrubs and trees that produce colorful flowering branches in an astonishing number of sizes and shapes. Amateur and professional gardeners, high school teachers and professors of biology, botanists and conservationists alike will appreciate this book's entertaining and informative entry to the otherwise daunting field of botanical names. Engaging, witty, and memorable, Gods and Goddesses in the Garden transcends the genre of natural history and makes taxonomy a topic equally at home in the classroom and at cocktail parties.

The names of plants
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ISBN: 9780521866453 9780521685535 9780511550898 9780511480232 0511480237 0511479433 9780511479434 9780511473760 0511473761 0521685532 0521866456 1316086437 9786612001093 1282001094 0511477031 0511475586 0511550898 0511478550 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Names of Plants is an invaluable reference for botanists and horticulturalists. The first section gives an historical account of the significant changes in the ways that plants have been known and named. It documents the problems associated with an ever-increasing number of common names of plants, and the resolution of these problems through the introduction of International Codes for both botanical and horticultural nomenclature. It also outlines the rules to be followed when plant breeders name a new species or cultivar. The second section comprises a glossary of generic and specific plant names, and components of these, from which the reader may interpret the existing names of plants and construct new names. With explanations of the International Codes for both Botanical Nomenclature (2000) and Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (1995), this edition contains a greatly expanded glossary, which includes the Greek, Latin, or other source of each plant name.

The names of plants
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ISBN: 128095566X 9786610955664 1139130439 1139148672 0511351178 0511061412 0511055080 0511754957 0511069871 1316085813 9780511061417 9780511351174 9780511754951 6610955662 052181863X 9780521818636 0521523400 9780521523400 9781316085813 9781139130431 9781139148672 9780511055089 9780511069871 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Names of Plants is a handy two-part reference for the botanist and amateur gardener. The book begins by documenting the historical problems associated with an ever-increasing number of common names of plants and the resolution of these problems through the introduction of International Codes for both botanical and horticultural nomenclature. It also outlines the rules to be followed when plant breeders name a new species or cultivar of plant. The second part of the book comprises an alphabetical glossary of generic and specific plant names, and components of these, from which the reader may interpret the existing names of plants and construct new names. For the third edition, the book has been updated to include explanations of the International Codes for both Botanical Nomenclature (2000) and Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (1995). The glossary has similarly been expanded to incorporate many more commemorative names.


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Ways of being in literary and cultural spaces
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ISBN: 144381654X 9781443816540 9781443810050 1443810053 1443899364 9781443899369 9781443819411 1443819417 1443891126 9781443891127 9781443816687 144381668X 9781443897518 1443897515 1282413716 9786612413711 1443812072 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

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In accordance with the notion that "identity" is absolutely central to ontological and discursive practices, this volume explores a multiplicity of "ways of being", including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life in addition to other pivotal modes of existence.Beyond discourses of identity featured in the first section of this work, "ways of performing" identity in literature are brought to light in the second half through studies into, for instance, the roles of enunciator and reader, the depiction of villai

The plant-book : a portable dictionary of the higher plants
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ISBN: 0521414210 9780521414210 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Cambridge University press

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The Plant-Book is widely accepted as an essential reference text for anyone researching, growing or writing about plants. In over 20,000 entries this comprehensive dictionary provides information on every family and genus of seed-bearing plants (including gymnosperms) plus ferns and other pteridophytes, combining taxonomic details with invaluable information on English names and uses. In this new edition each entry has been updated to take into consideration the most recent literature and over 2,500 new entries have been added, ensuring that The Plant-Book continues to rank among the most practical and authoritative botanical texts available.


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Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique
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ISBN: 2251328564 9782251328560 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris : Les Belles Lettres,

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