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Bituminaria Basaltica
''Bituminaria'' is small genus of perennial herbs in the bean family. It includes 10 species, which range from Macaronesia Macaronesia (; ) is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North Africa and Europe. Each archipelago is made up of a number of list of islands in the Atlantic Oc ... through Mediterranean Basin of Europe, north Africa, and Western Asia to the Caucasus and Saudi Arabia. 10 species are accepted: * '' Bituminaria antiatlantica'' – southwestern Morocco * '' Bituminaria atropurpurea'' – south-central Morocco * '' Bituminaria basaltica'' – Sicily * '' Bituminaria bituminosa'' (L.) C.H. Stirt. – Mediterranean Basin and Caucasus * '' Bituminaria flaccida'' (Nábělek) Greuter – Jordan, Sinai, and Saudi Arabia * '' Bituminaria kyreniae'' – Cyprus * '' Bituminaria morisiana'' (Pignatti & Metlesics) GreuterA pterocarpan from the seeds of ''Bituminaria morisiana''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenz Heister
Lorenz Heister (Latin: ''Laurentius Heister'') (19 September 1683-18 April 1758) was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main. Biography From 1702 to 1706, Heister studied at the Universities of University of Giessen, Giessen and Wetzlar, afterwards relocating to Amsterdam, where he studied anatomy under Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731). In the summer of 1707, he was an assistant physician in field hospitals at Brussels and Ghent during the War of the Spanish Succession. He then traveled to Leiden, where he studied anatomy under Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1653–1721) and Govert Bidloo (1649–1713), also attending Hermann Boerhaave’s lectures on chemistry and eye disease, ocular diseases. In 1708, he earned his doctorate from the University of Harderwijk, and in the summer of 1709, rejoined the Dutch military as a field surgeon during the Siege of Tournai (1709), Siege of Tournai. Shortly afterwards, he distinguished himself in treatment of the wounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |