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1690. Durham, H. E. What is a broccoli? Gard. Chron. Ill, 65: 243-244. 1919.— 

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1692. EssARY, S. H. Samuel McCutchen Bain. Phytopathology 10: 185-188. Portrait 

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1693. Fedeli, Carlo. II primo Orto botanico Pisano. [The first botanical garden of 

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 that Luca Ghini, then lecturer at Bologna, who had been invited to the chair of botany at 

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1694. FoEX, Etienne. Rapport sommaire sur la situation de la Societe de Pathologie 

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1695. G[amble], J. S. J. H. Lace, CLE., F.L.S. Roy. Bot. Gard. Kew Bull. Misc. 

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1696. Gamble, J. S. John Henry Lace. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 131: 56-57. 1919,— 

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1697. Gerhardt, Karl. Dem Andenkenan Ernst Stahl. Naturwiss. Wochenschr. N.F., 

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