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Literature and Botany [PDF]

This volume explores the deep connections between literature and botany, examining how plants shape cultural narratives, ecological thought, and human imagination.

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History as Bibliotheca: Linnaeus’s Historiographical Practice

MetaScientia: Journal of the History and Philosophy of Science
Prior to the institutionalization of the history of science, the historiographical writings of naturalists served as a profound reflection of the self-conception of natural history.
Che Jiang
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Anatomical structure overrides temperature controls on magnesium uptake – calcification in the Arctic/subarctic coralline algae Leptophytum laeve and Kvaleya epilaeve (Rhodophyta; Corallinales) [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2018
Calcified coralline red algae are ecologically key organisms in photic benthic environments. In recent decades they have become important climate proxies, especially in the Arctic and subarctic.
M. C. Nash, W. Adey
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The Visible Empire: The Expert View and Images in the Scientific Expeditions of the Enlightenment

Cuadernos Dieciochistas, 2010
This essay examines the Spanish natural history expeditions to Latin America in the late 18th Century —particularly the Real Expedición Botánica a Nueva Granada, directed by José Celestino Mutis— as an approach to an analysis of the importance of visual ...
Daniela BLEICHMAR
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Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany

v.18:no.5 (1989:Jan.
British Museum (Natural History)
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Backdrop to encounter : the 1770 landscape of Botany Bay, the plants collected by Banks and Solander and rehabilitation of natural vegetation at Kurnell

, 2013
The first scientific observations on the flora of eastern Australia were made at Botany Bay in April–May 1770. We discuss the landscapes of Botany Bay and particularly of the historic landing place at Kurnell (lat 34˚ 00’ S, long 151˚ 13’ E) (about 16 km
Benson, Doug, Eldershaw, Georgina
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Publications of Field Museum of Natural History

Fieldiana. Botany, v. 13, part
Field Museum of Natural History.
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Myrsine cirrhosa (Primulaceae), a distinctive new shrub species from Kaua‘i, Hawaiian Islands [PDF]

PhytoKeys
Myrsine cirrhosa Lorence & K.R.Wood (Primulaceae), a new single-island endemic shrub species from Kaua‘i, Hawaiian Islands, is described and illustrated. Notes on its distribution, ecology and conservation status are included.
David H. Lorence, Kenneth R. Wood, Marc S. Appelhans, Warren L. Wagner   +3 more
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Chasseurs de plantes au Brésil : les collecteurs d’orchidées et autres espèces ornementales – la flore brésilienne et le marché européen des fleurs au XIXe siècle

Brésil(s)
This article examines the trade of Brazilian orchids in Europe during the 19th century. Drawing on various sources, we reconstruct the systems established by Belgian and British horticultural and floricultural societies, which sent traveling collectors ...
Gustavo Maciel, Heloisa Barbuy
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Reduction of the Hawaiian genus Platydesma into Melicope section Pelea (Rutaceae) and notes on the monophyly of the section

PhytoKeys, 2017
Platydesma, an endemic genus to the Hawaiian Islands containing four species, has long been considered of obscure origin. Recent molecular phylogenetic studies have unequivocally placed Platydesma within the widespread genus Melicope as sister to the ...
Marc S. Appelhans, Kenneth R. Wood, Warren Wagner   +2 more
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