Example sentences for: linnaeus

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  • (Traditional explanations include European encounters with Indians wearing red paint, or else the creative labeling system of 18 th -century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus.)

  • Taxonomic treatments for Artemisia over the past 50 years range from maintaining a single, large genus of over 500 species [ 32 33 34 35 36 37 ] to the recognition of six to eight genera from within its taxonomic boundaries [ 2 38 39 ] . Artemisia of antiquity was divided into three genera ( Artemisia, Absinthium, and Abrotanum ) by Tournefort [ 40 ] . However, the concept of a more inclusive genus was resurrected by Linnaeus [ 41 ] , hereinafter, referred to as Artemisia s.l . Besser [ 42 ] and de Candolle [ 43 ] recognized four sections within Artemisia s.l.

  • In Scotland only two exist; Erica cinerea and Erica tetralix . In spite of Linnaeus' epithet (`ashy'), the former is called bell heather by all Scots and fine-leaved heath by many botanists; the latter is often called bell heather , too, by noncritical observers (since the flowers are very bell-like), but is known as the cross-leaved heath by those who pay more attention to the strongly two-ranked arrangement of the tiny needlelike leaves.

  • Artemisia L. (Asteraceae), as broadly conceived by Linnaeus, is the largest genus in Tribe Anthemideae [ 1 2 3 ] and one of the largest in the family [ 4 ] . It is widespread in mid- to high-latitudes, and shrubby species dominate most cold and many warm deserts in the Northern Hemisphere [ 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ] . Because of the abundance of wind-dispersed Artemisia pollen in the geological column, it is used as an indicator of steppe climates [ 14 ] . Some members are foraged by ungulates, rodents, birds, and insects [ 11 15 16 17 18 19 ] , despite the production of sesquiterpenes that afford a bitter taste to the herbage.

  • Many animals were--and are--wonderfully well-named by taxonomists, following in Linnaeus' footsteps: this book is the key to their wisdom, and often their humor.


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