Flora Palaestina
Flora Palaestina

Author: Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan

Publisher: Flora Palaestina

Published: 1977-12

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 9789652080035

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The first Flora specific to Israel and surrounding areas. Its four parts, each comprising one volume of text and one of plates, treat some 2,470 species to be found at this meeting point of four phytogeographical regions. Many of the species and varieties included are described here for the first time or renamed since the second edition of Post's Flora. The descriptions, with few exceptions, are based on plants deposited in the Herbarium of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants
The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants

Author: James Cullen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-08-11

Total Pages: 661

ISBN-13: 0521761646

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The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume 5 completes the series, and includes many important ornamental families, such as Labiatae, Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Acanthaceae, Campanulaceae, and the largest family of Dicotyledons, the Compositae.

The Harra and the Hamad
The Harra and the Hamad

Author: A. V. G. Betts

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781850756149

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This book is the first in a series of reports on fieldwork carried out n eastern Jordan, 1979-1991. It presents evidence for the Epipalaeolithic period docused on the site of Dhuweila, a hunting camp used in the 7th and 6th millennia BC, and surrounding camps making use of desert 'kites', their chipped and ground stone industries, animal remains, botanical remains and rock art. Also includes an edited summary of work by Uzbek and Russian scholars on hunting traps and animal migration patterns on the Ustiurt plateau in Uzbekistan.