Ancient botanist whats his name , what is the plant ,where is his book?

Question

There was some ancient botanist who cultivate a certain plant that would release a certin toxin into the atmosphere and also into the soil that had a chane reaction and would race its chemistry over the entire earth he used it as a warning system for all others of his kind on earth.

Answer 1

This sounds like science fiction to me.

Sorry, haven't read that one.

Seriously, re-post this in Books and Authors, and maybe it will ring a bell for someone, and you'll get your answer.

"Early botany (before 1945)

Among the earliest of botanical works, written around 300 B.C., are two large treatises by Theophrastus: On the History of Plants (Historia Plantarum) and On the Causes of Plants. Together these books constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and on into the Middle Ages. The Roman medical writer Dioscorides provides important evidence on Greek and Roman knowledge of medicinal plants.

In 1665, using an early microscope, Robert Hooke discovered cells in cork, a short time later in living plant tissue. The German Leonhart Fuchs, the Swiss Conrad von Gesner, and the British authors Nicholas Culpeper and John Gerard published herbals that gave information on the medicinal uses of plants."

Answer 2

Have no idea, but Charles Linnaeus was the botanist who named and classified the majority of our plants.

Answer 3

hmmm, sounds like you've been inhaling those toxins ...

Answer 4

Are you on drugs?