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Flora Mirabilis, How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty

Flora Mirabilis, How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty

by Catherine Herbert Howell

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 256 PAGES

The estimable Peter Raven (botanical advocate and head of the Missouri Botanical Garden) provides the introduction for these superbly illustrated, thoroughly engrossing tales of plants, plant explorers, gardens and all things green.  (SCI279, $35.00)


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