“…Palaeo-ethnobotany was developed by Unger (1851Unger ( , 1852 and Heer (1865Heer ( , 1883 and is reviewed by Willerding (1987). Urban archaeology of city centres lead, together with early floras lists, to today's urban botany (Willerding 1986, Hellwig 1990, Landolt 1991). The cultivated plants and accompanying wild flora in gardens, fields and meadows in Pompei, which was destroyed in 79 AD, are documented in ikonographical, literal, archaeological, ethnobotanical and palynological records (Jashemski 1979).…”