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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Poetry. Multimedia. "MESOSTIC HERBARIUM is an album of phytological and mycological poems collected from people in many countries...the mesostic is guided by certain rules: choose a plant, its name gives a stem; compose a poem, one word per line...MESOSTIC HERBARIUM relates to orders of knowledge, in particular botany...Through these poems we can gauge a wide-ranging cultural vision of nature, for there is an anthropology at work here..."--Alec Finlay. Includes CD-ROM of WORDWOOD, a collection of animated mesostic poetry by pupils at schools in Durham Sunderland Region and Perthshire. Check out other SPD titles by Platform Projects including THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS and TURNING TOWARD LIVING. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1894 edition by the British Museum, London. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1892Original Publisher: Pharmaceutical Society of Great BritainSubjects: BotanyLondon (England)PlantsMedical / HistoryNature / PlantsScience / Life Sciences / BotanyNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: IIL -- CAL YCIFL OR£.LEGUMINOSE. Suborder I. Papilionace. s. 138. Adenocarpus complicatus, Gray (A. paxvifolius, D. C.).a. Twigs with leaves and pods.Lebanon, 4,000-5,000 ft.; J. D. Hooker and D. Hanbury, 27 Sept., 1860.139. AUiagi Maurorum, D. 0. " Jnawan, jawan, or Jawasa" (Hind.)a. Twig with leaves.b. Twigs with leaves and pods.Dead Sea, northern end, where it grows two or three feet high; 31 Oct, 1860; also banks of Jordan. (2) Damascus; Oct., 1860; Dr. J. D. Hooker and D. Hanbury. [For specimens of the manna of this tree see the Hanbury Collection of Materia Medica.]140. Anagyris fcetida, L.o. Twig with leaves and pods.Mont Major, Aries; 8 May, 1854. b. Branchlet with flowers and young pods. Kamleh, Syria; B. T. Lowne, 1863.141. Andira inermls, H. B. K.a. Twig with leaves and flowers."Plants of Central America, No. 13. Slopes of hills and on the banks of the Rio Grande, at Paraiso Station, P. R. R. (Panama), March 15,1861. A spreading tree twenty to thirty feet high." -- S. Hayes.142. Astragalus angustifolius, Lam.a. Twigs with flowers and pods.Summit of Lebanon ; Dr. J. D. Hooker and Dr. Hanbury. "Legume very hirsute." Sept. and Oct., 1860. 143. Astragalus aristatns, L.'Her. (Fischer, Syn. AstragalorumTragacantharum, p. 105, 110.) a. Twig with flowers. La Grave, Hautes Alpes, Dauphine; 20 June, 1857. Briancn, 28 June, 1837; D. Hanbury. 144. Astragalus Bethlehemicus, Boiss? ... ... Read more

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This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants with drug or food potential, offering wide-ranging possible applications for pharmacologists, chemists, botanists, and even anthropologists. Following the same criteria as in earlier investigations, the authors have examined the vast holdings of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium to select little-known plant uses and to record any note suggesting biodynamic constituents--i.e., those having effects on living tissue--from skin irritants and poisons and medications of any kind to foods, beverages, and spices. They have also included species whose applications suggest other kinds of unreported chemical activity, plants associated with magic or ritual which affected people in some unusual way.

Listing the notes in the order in which the species were found in the collection, family by family, the authors call attention to similar characteristics in related species and families having biodvnamic properties in common. Each entry begins with the Latin name of the specimen, cites the country in which it was collected, the collector's name, and his held number for the plant, and then quotes the ethnobotanical or other note of interest.

While in itself a valuable reference work in the search for clues to useful plants, New Plant Source for Drugs and Foods also will enhance the value of the first volume by allowing a comparison of entries.

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Herbarium," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Herbarium in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Herbarium when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Herbarium, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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In 1833 Margaret Stovin presented Florence Nightingale with an album of pressed flowers, which they had collected together in Derbyshire. Florence was 13 years old and Margaret was 77. Florence was learning about botany, a popular subject of the day for young girls. Margaret Stovin had established herself as noteworthy botanist, and a pioneer for this subject in the Age of Enlightenment. In this outstanding example of Margaret's many herbaria the title page says simply: To Miss Nightingale, an offering from her very affectionate friend Margaret Stovin. Let not the botanic drives of Lea Hurst be forgotten! This catalogue contains over 100 coloured pictures of the plants in the herbarium. Each of the original dried plants is shown alongside a recent picture of its modern day equivalent for comparison. Every plant has its own page, which includes its original inscription and Linnean classification. These are accompanied by short extracts from a variety of contemporary botanical reference books encapsulating what was known about them at the time. This catalogue is a record of the specimens in the herbarium together with their photographs before receiving conservation treatment.Photographs and the names of their modern equivalents are shown alongside for comparison. Several of the taxonomies have changed, and the original Linnean classifications are given. There are also extracts from early 19th century botanical books giving a brief insight into contemporary knowledge about each of the plants. One section describes the origins of the herbarium and gives some biographical notes about Margaret Stovin, who in 1840 was one of the first women to be elected to the Botanical Society in London. The materials used in the making of the herbarium and its method of construction are also described. Many of the plants are exotics whose species originate from faraway places. It is interesting to see how they had established themselves in English gardens by the early 19th century. This is a fascinating document about a unique collection of plants assembled by two amazing women who had clearly formed a bond of friendship as result of their botanical exploration. The herbarium belongs to the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' Hospital in London, and it was researched and conserved by the author in the summer of 2008 at the Camberwell College of Arts. ... Read more