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Popular account of the medicinal plants occurring in Denmark with 
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Alphabetical list of Latin and Greek generic and specific epithets and 
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Historical review, bibliography, list» of 57 topographical districts with 
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clover and grass, anthropochorous plants (with annotated tabular list); 
extensively annotated list of weedy spermatophytes, alphabetically arranged 
by scientific names, with discussion of vernacular names, general distribution, 
local occurrence, oldest extralimital and local records, biology, uses and 
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Kier, Eigil. Havens blomster i farver. 192 p. incl. 128 col. pl. on 64. 
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Good colored figures of 508 herbaceous garden plants (including many 
horticultural varieties), alphabetically arranged by scientific names, with 
short descriptions. The colored figures in this and in the following work 
are by Verner Hancke.—See also his Havens buske og treer. 192 p. incl. 
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125.) (Popular handbook of cultivated trees, shrubs, and woody vines, 
arranged alphabetically by scientific names, with 357 colored figures and 
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there given. 
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