UNLABELLED BACKGROUND AND THE PURPOSE OF STUDY: Galanthus transcaucasicus Fomin (Amaryllidaceae) is an endemic species to the Caucasia and Alborz mountains in Iran which locally named "Gole-Barfi". While there are many reports on pharmacological activities of Galanthus species' alkaloids, there is no report on G. transcaucasicus and this article is the first phytochemical study on this species....

Five species of clitocyboid fungi belonging to genus Clitocybe viz. ‍C. geotropa, C. houghtonii, ‍C. infundibuliformis,C. rufuloalutacea and C. trulliformisare reported from Iranian part of Caucasia. The reported fungi are new records for Iran.

Turkic languages are an integral part of the linguistic landscape of present-day Caucasia, both north and south of the mountain ridge. Different from the so-called “autochthonous” Caucasian languages, i.e. the languages pertaining to the Kartvelian (South-Caucasian), (North-)West Caucasian and (North-East) Caucasian families, both the southern (Oghuz) and the northern (Qypchaq) idioms of Turkic...

Configuring whiteness as contagion, Birdie Lee, the narrator of Danzy Senna’s Caucasia, connects assimilation to illness and disease. Separated from her African American activist father, Birdie Lee and her blue-blooded mother flee from the law in a racialized and radicalized 1970s Boston. Eventually, the two take up residence in New Hampshire, where Birdie passes as "Jesse"and for white. This a...

This study was aimed description of morphological features fruits and seeds eight species related to Brassicaceae family in Iraq, the showed number taxonomic differences as silique long all studied except Rorippa amphibian (L.)b Besser short, however varied dimensions where Turritis laxa L. recorded highest average length with (160 mm) while R .amphibia record shortest (5 mm), addition colors r...