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Acknowledgments

Our most valuable resource during the writing of Flora Unveiled has been the

many scholars, librarians, curators, students, and friends we have consulted and interacted

with over the two decades that it has taken us to complete our research. Flora Unveiled is

a broad synthesis that required considerable input from multiple disciplines outside our

own areas of expertise in plant biology, including archaeology, archaeobotany, linguistics,

history, literature, history of science, gender studies, and philosophy. Among those who

provided significant guidance are Elizabeth A. Augspach, Ofer Bar- Yosef, Paul Bahn, Alix

Cooper, Oliver Dickenson, Mark Elvin, Yosef Garfinkel, Diane Gifford- Gonzalez, Jaako

Hämeen- Anttila, Wolfgang Heimpel, Ian Hodder, Jules Janick, Helmut W.  Klug, John

Lynch, Michael Marder, Joan Marler, Naomi Miller, Gary Myles, Olga Sofer, Catherine

Preece, Karen Reeds, Sophia Rhizopoulou, Ann Macy Roth, Gonzalo Rubio, Lawrence

Guy Straus, and Peter M. Warren. The generous assistance of these scholars, as well as many

others, is gratefully acknowledged.

In addition, we would like to thank Michael Leapman for his kind hospitality during

one of our visits to London and for allowing us access to his personal collection of papers on

Thomas Fairchild. We also wish to thank our long- time friend and colleague, Heven Sze, at

the University of Maryland, for a critical reading of preliminary versions of the chapters on

Alternation of Generations.

We are especially indebted to Gildas Hamel, our colleague at the University of California,

Santa Cruz, for providing translations of many key Latin passages from the Medieval,

Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and to Mark Elvin for sending us preliminary

drafts of his forthcoming comprehensive volume of English translations and interpreta-

tions of the Latin works by Camerarius and his contemporaries. Finally, we thank Georges