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    Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (19 February 1526 – 4 April 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist...
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    the sweet-lady or Clusius' gentian, is a large-flowered, short-stemmed gentian, native to Europe. It is named after Carolus Clusius, one of the earliest...
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  • Clusius may refer to: Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), Flemish doctor and botanist Clusius (Ulmus), a hybrid elm cultivar This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    credited with introducing potatoes into England. In 1588, botanist Carolus Clusius made a painting of what he called "Papas Peruanorum" from a specimen...
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    the earliest treatise on the medicinal and economic plants of India. Carolus Clusius translated it into Latin, which was widely used as a standard reference...
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    Neotropics. The genus is named by Carl Linnaeus in honor of the botanist Carolus Clusius. The closest relatives of Clusia are the neotropical genera Chrysochlamys...
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    of a Sarracenia to show up in botanical literature was published by Carolus Clusius, who received a partial dried specimen of what was later determined...
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    powdered in milk to kill flies"). The 16th-century Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius traced the practice of sprinkling it into milk to Frankfurt in Germany...
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    which belonged to the Dutch professor Pieter Pauw, was mentioned by Carolus Clusius in 1605. Its provenance is unknown, and it is now lost, but it may...
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    title page the author's name appears in its well-known Latin form Carolus Clusius. The full title is: Exoticorum libri decem, quibus animalium, plantarum...
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    credited with supplying lilac cuttings to the Dutch horticulturist Carolus Clusius about 1562. Well-connected botanists, such as the great herbalist John...
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    chancellor Carolus Clusius (Charles de l'Écluse), Flemish doctor and botanist Carolus de Tilly (1642–1698), French Roman Catholic prelate Carolus-Duran (Charles...
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    Avicenna "Auicen", Pliny the Elder, Conrad Gessner, Rembert Dodoens, Carolus Clusius, and Matthias de l'Obel. The genus name is a compound of the Greek...
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  • leurs Descriptions & naises traits retirez du Naturel, Paris 1555 Carolus Clusius Exoticorum libri decem Leiden 1605 Stripium novae descrip. cum fig...
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    family. Bird's nest fungi were first mentioned by Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius in Rariorum plantarum historia (1601). Over the next couple of centuries...
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  • Paracelsus joins the Zur Lutzerne guild of Strasbourg. February 19 – Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist (died 1609) Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Arab...
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    word Alca had been used by earlier authors for the razorbill such as Carolus Clusius in 1605 and Francis Willughby in 1676. The razorbill (Alca torda) is...
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    such as Leonhart Fuchs, Valerius Cordus, Lobelius, Rembert Dodoens, Carolus Clusius, John Gerard and William Turner. Gradually these herbals included more...
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    reputation publishing the works of Dutch herbalists Rembert Dodoens and Carolus Clusius and developing a vast library of illustrations. Translations of early...
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    woodcut in John Gerard's 1597 Great Herball, shortly thereafter in Carolus Clusius' 1601 Fungorum in Pannoniis Observatorum Brevis Historia, and was one...
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    Spanish Netherlands. Maximilian employed scholars like the botanist Carolus Clusius and the diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. Maximilian's library curated...
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    time including the Artois botanist Carolus Clusius, and Johann Manlius, a typographer. There is an homage to Clusius in the town, as well as a street named...
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    "al-" is the Arabic definite article). In 1593 the Latin botanist Carolus Clusius spelled it mahaleb. Today its cultivation and use is largely restricted...
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    known to be grown in cultivation in about 1658 and was illustrated by Carolus Clusius. It has been given the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden...
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    probably not dissimilar to the Chinese soups that use Auricularia cornea. Carolus Clusius, writing in 1601, also said that the species could be gargled to cure...
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    predates Linnean taxonomy, as it had been called Larus ingens marinus by Carolus Clusius. The terms swaabie (from Norn: swartbak, lit. 'black back'), baagie...
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    of the species included in the modern genus can be traced back to Carolus Clusius in 1601, long before the modern rules of botanical nomenclature were...
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    plants and medicines, soon translated by Flemish pioneer botanist Carolus Clusius. In architecture, the huge profits of the spice trade financed a sumptuous...
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    Pemptades by Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585), and from Dutch into English by Carolus Clusius, (1526–1609), published by Henry Lyte in 1578 as A Nievve Herball....
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    called Iris augustifolia media by the 16th century Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius. It was collected in Siberia by monks in the Middle Ages and grown...
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