The Popular Names of British Plants

The Influence of Literature in 1960s British Popular Music: Approaches to Popular Composition

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Plants and geographical names in Croatia.

The main purpose of this paper is to present some general observations, regularities and insights into a complex relationship between plants and people through symbolic systems like geographical names on the territory of Croatia. The basic sources of data for this research were maps from atlas of Croatia of the scale 1:100000. Five groups of maps or areas were selected in order to represent mai...

Mandragora and Belladonna – the Names of Two Magic Plants

Smoking in British popular culture 1800–2000: perfect pleasures

Smoke from cigars, pipes and cigarettes has curled its way through all levels of society in the last two hundred years. Matthew Hilton peels away the multifaceted images evoked by smoking in British literature, advertising and the cinema, as well as by more recent medical and political responses. The virtues attributed to tobacco, pleasure and relaxation, were primarily for the leisured classes...

Antiviral screening of British Columbian medicinal plants.

One hundred methanolic plant extracts were screened for antiviral activity against seven viruses. Twelve extracts were found to have antiviral activity at the non-cytotoxic concentrations tested. The extracts of Rosa nutkana and Amelanchier alnifolia, both members of the Rosaceae, were very active against an enteric coronavirus. A root extract of another member of the Rosaceae, Potentilla argut...