Mary Page

William Thomas Stearn

Culinary Herbs

Gavin D. R. Bridson

A Bicentenary Guide to the Career and Achievements of Linnaeus and the Collections of the Linnean Society

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

This dictionary provides entries on 6,000 botanical names, those most frequently encountered by gardeners and horticulturists, and also also cross-references 3,000 vernacular names to their botanical names.

A Handbook on the Origin and Meaning of the Botanical Names of Some Cultivated Plants

Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners

Wilfrid Blunt

This beautiful book surveys the evolution of botanical illustration from the crude scratchings of paleolithic man down to the highly scientific work of the 20th-century. 186 magnificent examples, over 30 in full color.

An Illustrated History

The Art of Botanical Illustration

Agnes Arber

The reissue of the 1938 revised edition of a work originally published in 1912 indicates its lasting value as a classic survey on the development of botany as a distinct scientific discipline.

Their Origin and Evolution

Herbals

Hiroshi Hara

L. H. J. Williams

An Enumeration of the Flowering Plants of Nepal

This reference work explains the grammar and syntax of botanical Latin, and covers the roots and origins of Latin and latinised geographical names, colour terms, symbols and abbreviations, diagnoses and descriptions, and the formation of names and epithets.

Botanical Latin

William Thomas Stearn

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