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  1. Fairchild Tropical Garden, 33156, Miami, FL

    Jack B. Fisher

  2. Broward Community College, 33066, Coconut Creek, FL

    Sandra K. Austin

  3. California Botanical Garden of Toxic And Economic Plants, 4940 Leonardini Road, 95215, Stockton, CA

    Alan Hickman

  4. Biology Department, University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh, 54901, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

    Neil A. Harriman

  5. Department of Biology, Heidelberg College, 44883, Tiffin, OH

    Susan Carty

  6. Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, 10458, Bronx, New York

    Michael J. Balick

  7. Department of Botany, Duke University, 27708-0338, Durham, NC

    Mary Eubanks

  8. Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC

    Gail Wagner

  9. Middle Tennessee State, University Murfreesboro, 37132, TN

    Thomas E. Hemmerly

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Austin, D.F., Fisher, J.B., Austin, S.K. et al. Book reviews. Econ Bot 49, 433–439 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02863100

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