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    The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia                The British Flora Medica                Medicinal Plants                American Medical Botany                A Curious Herbal, Volumes 1-2                The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, Volume 1                Farm Weeds of Canada                A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees - Atlas                Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician                Curtis's Botanical Magazine                Reise in das Innere Nord-America                American Medicinal Plants                Tokaido Gojusan-eki Hachiyama Edyu, 1848                Medical Botany                Rikka shodo shu, 1684
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