(lowermost Carboniferous) plant-bearing deposits at Oxroad Bay, Scotland, from a number of different perspectives, including an analysis of the geologic history andsedimentologyof the site, as well as the paleoenvironment andpaleoecologyof the plants. Their studies indicate that the Oxroad Bay flora...
through economic botany. Botany is the natural history foundation of agriculture and forestry, as well as of landscaping in cities, health resorts, and parks. Botany also solves many problems in the food, textile, cellulose and paper, microbiological, and woodworking industries. However, the most ...
48 、Botany Forming a headlike mass or dense cluster, as the flowers of plants in the composite family.───头状的,头状花序的:形成头状的一簇或稠密的一丛的,如菊科植物的花朵 49 、Of natural history, we had to answer questions on hygiene,botanyand zoology.───博物要答着卫生,植物学及动...
Of cultivated plants, palms, as we know from history, grow here well, though their cultivation has been neglected; sterile wild palms still occur in some of the warmer valleys, especially to the East of the Dead Sea. Many dead palm-tree trunks lie scattered along the shores of the Dead S...
A passionate history of explorers and climate change (and thus, one expects, necessarily of climate politics as well)? You have me sold, sir. Here is the opening paragraph of chapter 1: James Cook did not know, on Sunday May 20, 1770, two weeks after leaving Botany Bay on the east co...
Humans have a long history of occasionally using the “beans” of Gymnocladus dioicus to make this tisane, which explains common names like coffeetree, American coffee berry, and coffeenut. The process is a bit time consuming, and the end result is mixed, but foraging adventures like this ...
Sesamum indicumis a domesticated plant with a 5000 plus year history of cultivation. It shares a genus with about 20 other species – most of which occur in sub-Saharan Africa – and belongs to the family Pedaliaceae – the sesame family. Sesame was first domesticated in India and is now...
2.Joseph Banks was born in 1743,the only son of a wealthy land-owning family.From an early age,he was interested in natural history,and in particular,botany.In the early 1760's he chose to make this dream to the full.In 1766 he travelled to Newfoundland and Labrador to collect plants,...
The archaeology and history of the Silk Road have recently received considerable attention, emphasizing the influence of the trade routes in shaping cultures across Eurasia (Frankopan2015; Spengler2019a; Whitfield2019). The lasting effects of the Silk Road are visible in the food we eat (Spengler20...