Download or read book Australian Botanist s Companion written by Alex S. George and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion for the Queensland Student of Plant Life and Botany Abridged Classic Reprint written by F. M. Bailey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Companion for the Queensland Student of Plant Life and Botany Abridged For many years it has been one of m constant regrets that no schoolmaster of mine had a knowledge 0 natural history, so far at least as to have taught me the grasses that grew by the wayside, Ste. Qsee that you do not cast words of ridicule and contempt upon the nomenclature used by the botanist. Use the local names locally, but remember that a plant may be known by a very difierent local name only a few miles from you; therefore become acquainted with the scientific. Point out to the young that the scientific name is often characteristic, and derived from some peculiar feature of the species or genus. Take, say, for example, the gum-tree, ironbark, and stringybark the botanist places these under the name Eucalyptus, by which they are known all over the world. The youngest pupil will see at' once, if pointed out to him, how admirably this name is suited to these trees. Show a dower-bud or half-expanded flower, and explain that the word used, Eucalyptus, was so given to these plants because the organs of reproduction, the anthers and stigma, in the early stage of their existence are well covered by an extinguisher-like lid, and thus protected until they come to maturity. Botanic names are also, in some instance, commemorative, and hand down from age to age the name of some worker in, or benefactor to, the science. As an example of this class, the name Banksia may be quoted, as it is called after Sir Jose h Banks, one of the earliest collectors of Australian plants. T ere are instances where the names will be considered, and justly so, as far-fetched and others in which it was a prostitution of a noble science to attach the name to the plant; but there have been, and unfortunately are still, sycophants amongst botanists as in other professions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Flora s Fieldworkers written by Ann Shteir and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical knowledge of the time from the Canadian field. Flora’s Fieldworkers employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and abundant artwork to reconstruct the ways in which women studied and understood plants in the nineteenth century. It features figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in Ontario and Australia – most of whom were scarcely visible in the historical record – who were active in “plant work” as collectors, writers, artists, craft workers, teachers, and organizers. Understood as an appropriate pastime for genteel ladies, botany offered women pathways to scientific education, financial autonomy, and self-expression. The call for more diverse voices in the present must look to the past as well. Bringing botany to historians and historians to botany, Flora’s Fieldworkers gathers compelling material about women in colonial and imperial Canada and Australia to take a new look at how we came to know what we know about plants.
Download or read book Records of Australian Botanists written by Joseph Henry Maiden and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.
Download or read book Gardener s Companion to Eucalyptus written by Ivan Holliday and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No group of plants is so characteristically Australian as the Eucalypts, yet individual species are by no means easy to identify. This practical book, now revised and updated, identifies more than 140 species commonly grown in or seen around cities, regardless of their state of origin. For each major species the plant is described, the range given, diagnostic features are summarised, related species are discussed, and their horticultural requirements outlined.
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Download or read book Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors flower painters and garden designers written by Ray Desmond and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four centuries botanists and gardeners in the British Isles have gathered, maintained and propagated many varying species of plants. Their work has been documented in innumerable books and articles which are often difficult to trace. The Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists represents a time-saving reference source for those who wish to discover more about the lives and achievements of the horticulturalists listed. The dictionary's utility comes not only from indicating the major publications of the named authors, but also the location of their herbaria and manuscripts.; The previous 1977 edition of the Dictionary has for many years been a much used source of information for botanists, botanic artists and archivists. In this revised edition the scope has been expanded to include among its 13,000 entries flower painters in addition to botanical artists over 1400 entries and, for the first time, garden designers.; Finally the Dictionary should have international appeal since so many botanists and gardeners worked on collective plants overseas, in particular in North America and the British Commonwealth.; Each entry gives, wherever possible, details of dates and places of birth and death, educational qualifications, professional posts, honours and awards, publications, location of plant collections, manuscripts, drawings and portraits. Its main function, however, is to provide further biographical references to books and periodicals. Comprehensive classified indices facilitate access by professions and activities, countries, and plant interests.
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Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from D to L.
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 4038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following on the successes of two previous dictionary projects, the CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of the Grasses, Umberto Quattrocchi has undertaken this dictionary of economically important plants.... He has done for these plants what was so admirably done in his other works—brought the vast and scattered literature on plant names, and in this case, too, their uses, into coherent order so that the inquisitive scholar can get a foothold." —From the Foreword, Donald H. Pfister, Harvard University and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts The CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology provides the starting point for better access to data on plants used around the world in medicine, food, and cultural practices. The material found in the five volumes has been painstakingly gathered from papers of general interest, reports and records, taxonomic revisions, field studies, herbaria and herbarium collections, notes, monographs, pamphlets, botanical literature, and literature tout court. It includes sources available at various natural history libraries, floras and standard flora works, local floras and local histories, nomenclatural histories, and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Much more than a dictionary, the book provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants, concise summaries of plant properties, and appropriate observations about medicinal uses. Drawing from a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources, it is an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with botany, herbal medicine, pharmacognosy, toxicology, medicinal and natural product chemistry, and agriculture.
Download or read book Companion to the Botanical Magazine With Figures written by William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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