The Names of Plants

By D. Gledhill

This book provides both a handy reference to the scientific names of plants and a clear written account of the ways in which the naming of plants has changed with time and why these changes were... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521366755
• ISBN13: 9780521366755
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

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As a layman, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of every entry. However, this book seems to me to be full of information and quite well-researched. I wish the other reviewer here would give some example of the supposed inaccuracies. Perhaps the issue has arisen because etymology inevitably involves some guesswork, and is constantly being revised.