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...Moldenkes' new book, Plants of the Bible (Chronica Botanica Co.; $7.50), tries to identify every plant mentioned in the Bible, even to the humble bacterium (Pasteurella pestis) that smote the Israelites with emerods. The job is a tough one, for neither the early writers nor the later translators of the Bible were botanists. They often used the same word for different plants, and different words for the same plant. The botanically innocent scholars who produced the King James Version turned aspens into mulberries and dill into anise. The sycomore that Zacchaeus climbed to catch a glimpse of Jesus...
...strict truth about carnivorous plants (The Carnivorous Plants; Chronica Botanica Co., Waltham, Mass; $6) is the business of McGill University's Emeritus Professor of Botany Francis Ernest Lloyd. After twelve years' work, field trips in South Africa, Australasia and North America, he has published the first comprehensive treatise on the subject since Charles Darwin's Insectivorous Plants...
Frans Verdoorn, formerly of Leiden, Holland, well known hepatieologist who has been editor and publisher of the Review of Bryology and Chronica Botanica, has been appointed Honorary Research Associate in Bryology at the Farlow Herbarium...
...Chronica of Fr. Salimbene, mainly written in 1284, gives a most vivid, naive and picturesque image of the conditions of Northern Italy...
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