of plants. in belarus has its own school of botany, which was formed in 1963, when the institute of experimentalotany appeared at the national academy of sciences. most recently , scientists released the fourth volume of the publication flora of belarus. it included 34 species of plants that world science did not know about before the research of our scientists. the conversation will continue. with one of the authors arkady nikolaevich, hello, good afternoon, it would seem that everything is already known about our flora of belarus, three volumes, but it turns out not everything, the fourth volume has appeared, tell us what is unique , frankly speaking, there are much more of them planned, because only the old flora, which was published from 49 to 59, had five volumes, well, though they were a little thinner, in this... birth we must do a complete inventory of our flora of what grows here, why is this necessary? yes, in order for us to be able to predict the further behavior of the species, we know, well, we will know from these books that some species have just appeared, literally someone broug