Compiled by Robert W. Kiger and Duncan M. Porter and published as the Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project (2001), this selective glossary attempts to reconcile, integrate, and codify the traditional terminology of plant-taxonomic description, and should be especially useful for computer-based comparative databanking of such information. (Copies of the book are still available. Please see the Publications page for further information.) ... [Information of the supplier]
Apparently as a consequence of on earlier negative attitude, research into the botanical vocabulary of Old English was the most neglected area of English vocabulary until the 1970s when Peter Bierbaumer published his three-volume study Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen (1975-79), in which the relevant vocabulary of texts and glosses was completely documented and interpreted. Further, the situation has changed substantially over the last few years as a result of the studies by the Munich Anglicist Hans Sauer, and thanks to the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey, founded by Carole Biggam, at the University of Glasgow. At around the same time Bierbaumer and Sauer, albeit with slightly different focuses, started planning an electronically accessible dictionary of the botanical vocabulary of Old English and a dictionary of Old English plant-names respectively, using Bierbaumer´s earlier study as a starting point. Both scholars felt much could be gained from co-operating together in the publication of this two-year project. This co-operation was established at the Munich conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, organised by Hans Sauer. Whereas Bierbaumer will focus on the documentation and identification of the plant-names, Sauer will mainly deal with morphological and etymological aspects. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Diese bibliographische Datenbank enthält die Daten des "Botanico Periodicum Huntianum (BPH)" (Lawrence & al. 1968), "Botanico Periodicum Huntianum/Supplementum (BPH/S)" (Bridson and Smith 1991), darüberhinaus die Titel, Titelabkürzungen und Publikationsdaten aus "Taxonomic Literature, ed. 2 (TL-2)" (Stafleu & Cowan 1976, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1985, 1988), und "Taxonomic Literature, ed. 2, Suppl. 1-3 (TL-2/S)" (Stafleu & Mennega 1992, 1993, 1995) sowie die enstprechenden Daten weiterer, nicht in diesen Werken enthaltener Publikationen. ... [Information des Anbieters, übersetzt und verändert]
The aim of this site is on one hand to facilitate the work of researchers and members of the public who attempt to sort the common names of plants and associate them with their corresponding botanical names. On the other hand this site aims at building the growing number of multilingual and multiscripted resources on the internet with the ultimate goals of improving international communication, improving communication between lay people and scientists and linking people with a common interest in plants, ethnic food and horticulture. We thereby hope to raise the awareness among both academics and lay people of the great world diversity of plants that could be used by people as opposed to the limited range of plants used and commercialised. It is hoped that in time the threats to the bio-diversity of edible plants will become better known and that our site will help those who address this serious world problem. ... [Information of the supplier]
