The Cross Name Index to Medicinal Plants. 3 volumes.1995.1326 p.4to.Cloth.

This set provides over 4000 scientific names cross-indexed to more than28 000 common names of medicinal plants. Researchers often start aproject with either a scientific name or one of many regional commonnames used around the world. When beginning with a common name, thisbook eliminates the time-consuming task of reading throughall the current literature to find a matching scientific name.In this source the reader can also find all of the regional common names, and their geography, that match one scientific name. International inscope, this unique reference also provides language in which the commonname is used as well as its phylum, order, and family. The index is the resultof 35 years of work by Dr. Torkelson.