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16 Terms used in Bionomenclature
Selected etymological works
Baranov A (1971) Basic Latin for Plant Taxonomists. Lehre: J Cramer
Brown RW (1956) Composition of Scientific Words: a manual of methods and a
lexicon of materials for the practice of logotechnics. Revised edn.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Cash EK (1965) A Mycological English-Latin Glossary. [Mycologia Memoir no.
1.] New York: Hafner Publishing.
Gledhill D (2002) The Names of Plants. 3 rd
University Press.
edn. Cambridge: Cambridge
Jaeger EC (1955) A Source-Book of Biological Names and Terms. 3 rd edn.
Springfield, IL: CC Thomas.
Nybakken OE (1959) Greek and Latin in Scientific Terminology. Ames, IA: Iowa
State University Press.
Stearn WT (1992) Botanical Latin: history, grammar, syntax, terminology and
vocabulary. 4 th edn. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
Thomas VF (2010) Botanical Latin Glossary.
http://www.vfthomas.com/botanicallatinglossary.htm. V F Thomas,
Southwest Harbor, ME