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The development of lichenology in the history of botany

The Bryologist, 2017
Abstract Lichens have been a difficult group for botanists to understand. Only in the 20th century did they find their correct position among the fungi. This paper outlines the long and rather complicated course from Theophrastos, the first person to use the term lichen (about 300 B.C.) to the molecular evidence by Gargas and coworkers in 1995 that ...
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Hops—Their botany, history, production and utilization

Economic Botany, 1952
The female cone-like inflorescences oi this vine are composed of scales covered with glandular hairs which produce, among other compounds, the bitter principle which has long been an indispensable ingredient in the brewing of beer. These largescale catkins have been used also in medicine because of their sedative and soporific properties, and as a ...
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A History of U.S. Botany

Taxon, 1970
F. A. S., Joseph Ewan
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A New History of Botany

Taxon, 1974
R. S. Cowan, Karl Magdefrau
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The natural history of western Botany Bay

2010
Western Botany Bay is an extensively urbanized area only 10 kilometres from the Sydney CBD. The residential and light industrial estates that span the landscape conceal a rich landscape that was once a major food source for early Sydney. The hinterland of western Botany Bay was not settled until relatively late because access to the area was difficult ...
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Gardens as Laboratories. The History of Botany through the History of Gardens

2017
The importance of gardens as places to cure the mind from sad thoughts was acknowledged by René Descartes (1596-1650) in his epistolary exchange with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680). The claim was not unconventional and it marked a continuity in the representation of gardens as spaces of philosophical inspiration throughout Antiquity, the ...
baldassarri Fabrizio, Oana matei
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Botany and History of Hortus Malabaricus

Kew Bulletin, 1984
A. Radcliffe-Smith, K. S. Manilal
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Botany in India: History and Progress

Kew Bulletin, 1997
A. Radcliffe-Smith, B. M. Johri
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History of Systematic Botany in Australasia

Taxon, 1990
Rudolf Schmid, P. S. Short
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A New History of Botany

American Midland Naturalist, 1909
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