Product Description: This investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names as a lexical field, and an in-depth study of the plant names as individual entities...read more

Product Description: 'West of Eden' is an extensive cross-disciplinary study covering a huge range of topics in the field of botanical discourse within colonial and post-colonial contexts. Stemming from an existing European tradition of name giving to take possession of the 'rarities' of the new world, it extends to female writing, songs and Bible translation into Creoles...read more

This book provides both a handy reference to the scientific names of plants and a clearly written account of the ways in which the naming of plants has changed with time and why these changes were necessary. It deals with the problems of using common names for plants against the historical background of our increasing discrimination of kinds of plants. It then goes on to consider landmarks in the standardization of both common and 'scientific' names and the development of internationally agreed principles governing the format and use of names in botany, sylviculture, agriculture and horticulture. From the alphabetical list the reader may interpret the scientific names of plants from any part of the world. For this second edition a number of changes and corrections in both parts have been made. The author has attempted to keep the first part acceptable to the amateur gardener by resisting a temptation to make it a definite guide to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Others have done this already and with great clarity. Revision has allowed the inclusion of a brief comment on both synonymous and illegitimate botanical names and reference to recent attempts to accommodate the various traits and interests in the naming and names of cultivated plants.

Presents the history of how plants were grouped, ordered, and named for both pharmaceutical and practical purposes to make sense of the natural world.

Product Description: This handy dictionary lists more than 20,000 common names of plants and their Latin equivalents. Covering all the plant groups, it provides a quick and easy resource for finding those elusive botanical names.

Product Description: For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to a beautiful little hardcover book called Gardener's Latin, by Bill Neal. Neal understood that as Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and gardening catalogs, gardeners would need help...read more

Offers gardeners and horticulturists a listing of the botanical names of nearly six thousand plants. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The last of the series to be published in book form, this invaluable work lists the place of publication, between 1996-2000, of names of genera and species of seed-bearing plants

Product Description: Containing over 30,000 wood names with their corresponding commercial, common, and vernacular names, this book was originally published in Germany in 1936 and has long been unavailable. It includes the species, family, and area or country of origin for each wood...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive reference for all involved with plants and gardens, whether they are growing, studying, or writing about them.

Presents a history of plant names with information on meaning and classification (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This comprehensive overview of plant names includes over 12,500 terms covering 298 families, 2,787 genera and 9,427 species which are listed in the alphabetical order of their botanical names. In addition, 2,109 of the more common synonyms are given and referred to their current, preferred names...read more

Product Description: Provides a comprehensive listing of all currently accepted generic names of seed plants and all synonyms found in the modern literature, with approximately 16,000 genera and over 500 families treated separately. Each generic name entry includes geographical distribution, family, number of species, and authority and year of publication...read more

Lists more than sixteen thousand scientific and vernacular plant names, and describes name origins and the characteristics of plants

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