Seventeenth-century plant lists and herbarium collections: a case study from the Oxford Physic Garden

Lists of pre-Linnaean polynomial names of the plants growing in seventeenth-century European living plant collections are commonplace. However, comparison among lists and interpretation of polynomials in terms of modern Linnaean binomials is a major challenge for researchers. This paper shows the im...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, S
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 2017