By: Emma Short and Alex George
Price: $82.95
Publisher:
UK, Cambridge University Press: 2013
Seller ID: 003041
ISBN: 1107693756
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Latin is one of two acceptable languages for describing new plants, and taxonomists must be able to translate earlier texts in Latin. Providing a simple explanation of Latin grammar along with an in-depth vocabulary, this is an indispensable guide for systematic botanists worldwide. All relevant parts of speech are discussed, with accompanying examples as well as worked exercises for translating diagnoses and descriptions to and from Latin. Guidelines for forming specific epithets are also included. The authors cross-reference their grammar to Stearn's Botanical Latin and to articles in the In...
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