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Chris Liffen
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 Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject: Watson and Baker : topographical botany. |
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From time to time, various sheets appear in Baker's (difficult) handwriting which refer to environmental / habitat categories associated with Watson's Cybele Britannica. Whilst the word 'medapor' can just about be deciphered as mid-agrarian, the associated term is often illegible - the following are offered as an aid to 'translation'
Watson-Baker terms
Pratal Plants of meadow, rich damp grassland
Pascual Plants of pasture and grassy commons, less luxuriant than above
Ericetal Plants of Moors and Heaths
Uliginal Plants of swamps / boggy ground
Lacustral Plants usually immersed in water or floating on surface
Inundatal Plants of places liable to be inundated in wet weather, but dry in summer
Viatical Plants of road sides, rubbish heaps, frequented places
Agrestal Plants of cultivated ground
Glareal Plants of dry exposed ground
Rupestral Plants of walls and rocks
Septal Plants of hedges and hedgebanks
Sylvestral Plants of woods and shaded places
Littoral Plants of the sea shore
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