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Selected sources
Randal H. Alcock, 1876, Botanical Names for English Readers. London, 261pp.
Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1933, How Plants get Their Names. MacMillan, Dover edition first published in
1963. List II Specific Names largely absorbed in here as a base vocabulary. There are some transcriptional
(probably) errors in Bailey.
Jane Sterndale-Bennett, 2005, Plant Names Explained, Botanical Terms and their Meaning,
Horticultural Publications, Boston, Massachusetts (This book is about the 5 th or 6 th significant source I have
used, and I see the same old species listed, with the same old definitions verbatum; I feel most books are
copied from some lost book of plant names. This source takes some liberties with lumping similar sounding
and meaning terms, cf. resinosus and resinifera.)
Merle R. Black and Emmet J. Judiewicz, 2008, Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest,
Cornerstone Press, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
Roland Wilbur Brown, 1954, Composition of Scientific Words, published by the author. Etomylogy
from a geologist, a down to earth scientist.
Michael L. Charters California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations, A
Dictionary of Botanical and Biographical Etymology. www.calflora.net/botanicalnames Access beginning
September, 2008.
Allen J. Coombes, 1985, Dictionary of Plant Names, Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, 207 pp. First
published in the United Kingdom in 1985 by Newnes Books under the title The Collingridge Dictionary of
Plant Names.
Donald J. Borror, 1960) Dictionary of Word Roots and Combing Forms, compiled from the Greek,
Latin, and other languages with special reference to biological terms and scientific names. Mayfield
Publishing Company (1280 Villa Street, Mountain View, California 94041. Hard copy available at
Amazon.com.
David Gledhill, 2008, The Names of Plants, Cambridge University Press. Reviews the Rules for
Nomenclature and excellent source of Greek roots in Greek, but no diacritics.
Roger Hyam and Richard Pankhurst, 1995, Plants and Their Names A Concise Dictionary, Oxford
University Press, New York.
Benjamin Daydon Jackson, Indian edition 2004, Dictionary of Botanical Names and Terms. Asiatic
Publishing House, Delhi, India. 12/21/07. This data is being included essentially verbatim, with the exception