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87<p>Yay! We're old, ancient, oak-like in our tenacity, too cool!</p>
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94<li><a href="/eclectic/index.html">Classic herbal works</a>, including major works like <a href="/eclectic/kings/index.html">King's American Dispensatory</a>, <a href="/eclectic/felter/index.html">Felter's Eclectic Materia Medica</a>, <a href="/eclectic/ellingwood/index.html">Ellingwood's American Materia Medica</a>, as well as minor ones, and links to classic herbal works elsewhere - <i>added more Apr2025.</i>
95<br /><b>Help Proofread Old Texts:</b> <a href="/eclectic/salmon/index.html">Salmon's Botanologia, 1710</a></li>
96<li><b><a href="/chris/index.html">Remembering Christopher Hedley</a></b></li>
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99<li><a href="/plants.html">Plant names</a> (now 18 166 species in 3 406 genera)</li>
100<li><a href="/galleries/botany/index.html">Botanical keys for select genera</a> by Jan De Langhe</li>
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109<p>Woot woot, plant genuses have children now, thank you CPIII!</p>
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132<br />You get letters by post, charmingly old-fashioned.
133<br />Seven parts, almost two years, and quite affordable.</a>
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