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- proper noun A taxonomic
kingdom within thedomain Eukaryota — theplants . About 300,000species oforganism that all containchlorophyll to obtainenergy from thesun .
Etymologies
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Many of the samples from his early trip were first described formally by George Bentham in Plantae Hartwegianae, which appeared as a series of publications from 1839 to 1842.
Did you know? Many common garden flowers originated in Mexico. 2008
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Many of the samples from his early trip were first described formally by George Bentham in Plantae Hartwegianae, which appeared as a series of publications from 1839 to 1842.
Did you know? Many common garden flowers originated in Mexico. 2008
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Needless to say, in a world moving toward war, a paper entitled Plantae Mexicanae II: The Identification of Teonanacatl, a Narcotic Basidiomycete of the Aztecs did not receive wide circulation.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Needless to say, in a world moving toward war, a paper entitled Plantae Mexicanae II: The Identification of Teonanacatl, a Narcotic Basidiomycete of the Aztecs did not receive wide circulation.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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IN the academical differtation intitled Plantae MartinoBurferianse, publiftied at Upfal in the year 1745, under the aufpices of Linnaeus, mention is made (page 2, No. 13) of a grafs with the following fynonyms:
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At the end of the eighteenth century, a physician, Martin de Sessé y Lacasta, and José Mariano Mociño collect plants for Mexico's Botanical Garden, recording their findings in Plantae novae Hispaniae.
Did You Know? Mexico's national flower is the humble dahlia 2008
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At the end of the eighteenth century, a physician, Martin de Sessé y Lacasta, and José Mariano Mociño collect plants for Mexico's Botanical Garden, recording their findings in Plantae novae Hispaniae.
Did You Know? Mexico's national flower is the humble dahlia 2008
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Plantae - trees, plants, sprouts that grow out of my girbil's food dish after it dies
nessus Diary Entry nessus 2008
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“Okay, the five classes would be, from most advanced to most primitive, Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista… and Eugene.”
Night World No. 2 L.J. SMITH 1997
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The early Spanish reports on teonanacatl are reviewed by Schultes in “Plantae Mexicanae II: The Identification of Teonanacatl, a Narcotic Basidiomycete of the Aztecs,” Botanical Museum Leaflets 7(3): 37-55, 1939, and “Teonanacatl, the Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs,” American Anthropologist 42(3): 429-43, 1940.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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