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Use for: herbariums

• Here are entered works on collections of dried plant specimens, usually mounted and arranged for botanical reference. Works on individual herbaria are entered under the name of the herbarium.

Use for: gutta-percha

• A tough plastic substance from the latex of several Malaysian trees (especially Palaquium gutta) of the sapodilla family that resembles rubber but contains more resin and is used especially as insulation and in dentistry as a permanent filling in root canals.

Use for: Geoscience

• The fields of study concerned with the solid Earth. Included are sciences such as mineralogy, geodesy, and stratigraphy.

• Gentianaceae, the gentian family (order Gentianales) of flowering plants: annual and perennial herbs and, rarely, shrubs. Members of the family are native primarily to northern temperate areas of the world, though many are also found in tropical and subtropical regions. Flowers of certain members of these genera display some of the purest blues in the plant kingdom, and many are cultivated as garden ornamentals.

• Fungi are eukaryotic organisms; i.e., their cells contain membrane-bound organelles and clearly defined nuclei.
• organisms of the kingdom Fungi, which includes the yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, and mushrooms. There are also many funguslike organisms, including slime molds and oomycetes (water molds), that do not belong to kingdom Fungi but are often called fungi; many of these funguslike organisms are included in the kingdom Chromista. Fungi are among the most widely distributed organisms on Earth and are of great environmental and medical importance. Many fungi are free-living in soil or water; others form parasitic or symbiotic relationships with plants or animals.

Use for: European ash

• a tall Eurasian tree (Fraxinus excelsior) having leaves that are dark green and glabrous above and paler and often pubescent on the veins beneath with 7 to 11 oval leaflets.

Use for: ash

• a genus of trees or sometimes shrubs (family Oleaceae) comprising the ashes, being natives of the north temperate zone, and having thin furrowed bark, opposite pinnate leaves, and small apetalous flowers followed by fruits that are samaras