William Stearn wrote extensively on the history of botany and horticulture,[83][105] from Ancient Greece to his own times. He collected together J. E. Raven's 1976 J. H. Gray Lectures,[lower-alpha 13] editing and annotating them as Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece (1990).[107][lower-alpha 14] In 1993, he and Eldwyth Ruth Stearn translated and expanded Baumann's Die griechische Pflanzenwelt in Mythos, Kunst und Literatur (1986) as The Greek Plant World in Myth, Art, and Literature.[104]