In the herbarium : the hidden world of collecting and preserving plants / Maura C. Flannery.

Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization of these precious specimens today. She charts the grow...

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Main Author:	Flannery, Maura C., 1947- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Herbaria. Botanical specimens > Collection and preservation.
Physical Description:	ix, 325 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25cm
Format:	Book