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The Flora Graeca story
The Flora Graeca story, This is the first scholarly treatise to tell the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, a monumental collection of drawings and descriptions of plants in mainland Greece and the Balkan Peninsula. Originally described by Diskorides in the , The Flora Graeca story has a rating of 4 stars
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  • The Flora Graeca story
  • Written by author H.W. Lack,David Mabberley
  • Published by Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1999., 1998/11/05
  • This is the first scholarly treatise to tell the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, a monumental collection of drawings and descriptions of plants in mainland Greece and the Balkan Peninsula. Originally described by Diskorides in the
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Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Maps
Preliminary Notes
Dramatis Personae
A Short Levantine Glossary
1 Introduction 1
2 Complexities of discovery 3
3 Linnaean revolutions 13
4 Sibthorp: the early years 15
5 Bauer: the early years 22
6 Hawkins: the early years 27
7 Sibthorp: the first journey 28
8 Hawkins: the first journey 91
9 Sibthorp: the years between 100
10 Bauer's work for Sibthorp and Hawkins 105
11 Hawkins: the years between 116
12 Hawkins: the second journey 120
13 Sibthorp: the second journey 146
14 Sibthorp: the final months 175
15 The collections, drawings, and notes 179
16 Hawkins: the adventurer at home 187
17 The publication of the results 191
18 Epilogue 226
19 Biographical summary 229
App. 1 Bauer's pencil drawings of plants 231
App. 2 Bauer's water-colours of plants and their annotations 234
App. 3 Bauer's water-colours of animals and their annotations 257
App. 4 Bauer's patterns for the frontispieces to accompany the Flora Graeca 264
App. 5 Bauer's views 265
App. 6 The publication dates of the Prodromus and the Flora Graeca 271
App. 7 The taxonomic and nomenclatural novelties among the vascular plants published: in the Prodromus and the Flora Graeca 273
App. 8 The place-names used in the Prodromus 283
App. 9 The frontispieces of the Flora Graeca 286
App. 10 The engravings of the Flora Graeca 287
App. 11 Walpole's Memoirs and Travels 309
App. 12 Plants of horticultural and medicinal value with names based on Sibthorp's collections 310
Bibliography 313
Index 319


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