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The meaning of generic names of important economic plants

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Prepared as a term paper in Biology 104 (“Plants and human affairs”) at Harvard College in 1965.

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Marafioti, R.L. The meaning of generic names of important economic plants. Econ Bot 24, 189–207 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860601

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