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Plant poisons in Shakespeare

Economic Botany volume 24, pages 81–94 (1970)Cite this article

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    Edward Tabor

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This article was a term paper in Biology 104 (Plants and

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Tabor, E. Plant poisons in Shakespeare. Econ Bot 24, 81–94 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860641

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