Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 82, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1955), pp. 419-445 (27 pages) 1. This discussion has shown that the terms used for inflorescences are often so defined as to be ...

THERE is no more difficult task than that of editing reissues of scientific works published some years since. The progress of science is so rapid, the number of new facts accumulated year by year so ...

Vol. 68, No. 1/2, Morphology, Anatomy and Systematics at the Centenary of Wilhelm Troll's Birth (1999), pp. 33-37 (5 pages) Scientific terms should denote similar, comparable, or at the best ...

THIS little dictionary of botanical terms should prove useful, especially for students. It is nearly all German, only 15 pages being devoted to the French-English portion. The pages are interleaved, ...

This column is a bit different from my regular bill of fair. I get so m any questions from all of you (welcomed by the way) about what this or that means in things you read or see. I thought it would ...

Directions accompanying strawberry plants usually specify the crown must be located at the correct level for proper growth. That's fine, if you know the definition of a crown. I chuckle when plant ...

“The Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names with More than 5,000 Entries” by Ross Bayton ($29.95, Princeton University Press): This 352-page hardcover book is a botanist’s dream ...

‘Di geviksn-velt in yidish,” or, as it is titled in English, “Plant Names in Yiddish,” is a volume of botanical terminology, in part assembled and in part newly coined by Yiddish linguist and scholar ...