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Everyone with a professional interest in the flora of Texas will welcome this up-to-date checklist of the vascular plants. This comprehensive list also includes crops, persistent perennials, and naturalized plants and encompasses over 1,000 changes to the previous (Hatch, 1990) checklist. The authors have arranged this checklist phylogenetically by classes following the Cronquist system.Several features make this checklist especially useful. Chief among them is the relative synonymy (name history). An extensive index makes current classification and correct nomenclature readily accessible, while the botanical bibliography is the most extensive ever compiled for Texas. The authors also note which plants have been listed as threatened or endangered by the Texas Organization of Endangered Species, which are designated as Federal Noxious Weeds, and which have been chosen as state tree, flower, fruit, etc. by the Texas Legislature. ... Read more

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Essential
This well reseached tome is vital to texas botanists, natural resourceprofessionals, and the layperson in untangling the web of name revisions ofTexas plants.Preface to book detailing the history of Texas botany isfantastic. ... Read more

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This detailed book is the useful long-awaited and efficient comprehensive index to Brent C. Dickerson's fascinating works on Old Roses¡ªthe standard serious modern texts on this wonderful group of plants. The index lists all of the roses in these internationally-known, influential works, and specifies to the reader which page in which of these books has the main or important entry on the rose in question; also indexed here are all substantive references to people, places, things, or concepts in these important works which arose from Dickerson's twenty years of careful research and close study of Old Roses and their fascinating world.

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This book is primarily a very comprehensive index to three complex books: *The Old Rose Advisor* (in two volumes), *The Old Rose Adventurer*, and *The Old Rose Informant*, listing precisely where information on a rose variety can be found in these rich but diffuse books.However, the *Index* goes much further than this:It also indexes references to people, places, and concepts in these books such that anyone doing research on the world of old roses will be able to find the desired data quickly and efficiently.Further, it includes, updates, and integrates some of the very detailed appendices found in the *Advisor* and *Adventurer* so that the owner of *The Old Rose Index* will have all information conveniently at hand when using the listings.But there is more in *The Old Rose Index*!I have completed new entries for 29 additional interesting old roses from varying classes; and the book contains several new essays and translations, augmenting the earlier books. *The Old Rose Index* will expertly guide its owner to a fuller knowledge of old roses! ... Read more

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Edited by F. K. J. Shenton. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1858 edition by Crystal Palace Library; Bradbury and Evans, London. ... Read more