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By any other name.(The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants)(Book review)
Anna Pavord The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants. Bloomsbury, 384 pages, $45
reviewed by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Browsing through plant encyclopedias and garden catalogs or visiting botanical gardens and nurseries, one can see many varieties of offerings, each carrying a binomial, or two-name, Latin label comprising a particular plant's genus, which is capitalized, and following it in lower-case, an epithet, or characterizing secondary name denoting its species. This epithet may refer to the plant's original habitat: for instance, Pinus virginiana for the pitch pine native to eastern North America; to the plant collector who ...
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