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  1. Floristics

    Unreferenced date December 2009 Floristics from flora plants flora is a subdomain of botany and biogeography that studies distribution and relationships of plant species over geographic areas. The term is not to be confused with floristry . See also Floristic province Landscape ecology Phytosociology Category Phytogeography Category Biogeography Category Flora cs Floristika de Floristik Wissenschaft et Floristika id Floristika ko nl Floristiek pt Flor stica ru sk Floristika ...   more details



  1. List of Hungarian botanists

    floristics, horticulture J zsef Andrasovszky 1889 1943 ampelography G bor Andre nszky botanist G bor ..., plant systematics S ndor B lint 1860 1922 ampelography J zsef Balogh 1750 c. 1781 floristics Henrik Band 1840 1913 floristics, horticulture Zolt n Barab s 1926 1993 agricultural botany Aur l Baranyai 1903 1983 medical botany Zolt n Bar th 1924 1982 phytosociology, plant systematics, floristics B la ... ampelography, phytopathology Istv n Barra 1805 1865 plant systematics J zsef Barth 1833 1915 floristics ... J nos Kereszt ly Baumgarten 1756 1843 floristics Jen Bayer 1932 1970 phytochemistry Zolt n Bed born ... botany J zsef Benk 1740 1814 floristics, medical botany Jen Bern tsky 1873 1944 phytosociology ... 1532 1612 floristics, mycology Gyula Bihari 1889 1977 herbology Gyula Bittera 1893 1970 agricultural ... B la Bodn r 1932 1960 floristics, phytogeography J nos Bodn r 1889 1953 phytochemistry Istv n Bod cs ..., plant ecology J nos Bolla 1806 1881 floristics, mycology P l Bolza 1861 1947 horticulture Vince Borb s 1844 1905 floristics, plant systematics, phytosociology Attila Borhidi born 1932 plant systematics, floristics, phytosociology d m Boros 1900 1973 floristics, bryology, phycology Rezs Boros 1925 ... J nos Bruder 1913 1982 agricultural botany J zsef Budai 1851 1939 pomology, floristics C L szl Cholnoky 1899 1967 phytochemistry Korn l Chyzer 1836 1909 floristics Ott Claader 1907 1985 ... Istv n Csapody 1930 2002 forestry, floristics Vera Csapody 1890 1985 floristics, plant systematics, plant physiology K lm n Csat ri Sz ts 1912 1973 agricultural botany J nos Csat 1833 1913 floristics Adolf Cserey 1851 1918 plant systematics Farkas Cserey 1773 1842 floristics S ndor Cserh ti 1852 1909 ... Istv n Cs r s 1914 1998 floristics, phytosociology K lm n Czak 1843 1895 agricultural botany N ndor Czeiner 1850 1928 ampelography Antal Czetz 1801 1865 floristics Gyula Czimber born 1936 herbology ... 1686 1764 floristics J nos Vilmos Deccard 1722 1778 floristics rp d von Degen rp d Degen 1866 ...   more details



  1. Harvard Papers in Botany

    Harvard Papers in Botany is a Peer review peer reviewed scientific journal published twice a year, in June and December. It covers all aspects of plants and fungi including longer monographs, floristics , economic botany , and the history of botany. Volumes 10 2005 to present are available online at http www.bioone.org perlserv ?request get archive&issn 1043 4534 BioOne . External links http www.huh.harvard.edu publications Harvard Papers in Botany Category Harvard University publications Category Botany journals Category Biannual journals biology journal stub ...   more details



  1. Association (ecology)

    Unreferenced date October 2006 An association is the ultimate classification level of Ecosystem ecological systems . Local conditions permit several understory species to coexist with the same overstory dominants, and associations refer to the many co occurring species rather than just the few dominant ones. Associations have A relatively fixed Floristics floristic composition A relatively uniform physiognomy A tendency to occur in a consistent type of localized habitat DEFAULTSORT Association Ecology Category Ecology Category Habitats Category Ecology terminology Category Habitat ecology terminology Ecology stub br Kevelerezh ar plant ca Associaci fitosociologia cs Asociace fytocenologie da Plantesamfund de Assoziation Pflanzensoziologie es Asociaci n vegetal fr Association v g tale hu N v nyt rsul s nl Associatie vegetatiekunde pl Zesp ro linno ci sl Asociacija ekologija ...   more details



  1. Aliso

    Infobox Journal discipline Botany cover website http www.rsabg.org scientific publications publisher Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden country United States abbreviation Aliso ref name IPNI IPNI id 834 2 accessdate 15 March 2011 ref history 1948 present Aliso is a peer review peer reviewed Academic journal journal that publishes original research on plant taxonomy and evolutionary botany with a worldwide scope, but with a particular focus on the floristics of the Western United States . Aliso , first published in 1948, is the scientific journal of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden . The journal is named for the western sycamore, Platanus racemosa , which was commonly called by its Spanish name aliso . ref name Journal Home cite web title Scientific publications url http www.rsabg.org research department scientific publications publisher Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden accessdate 15 March 2011 ref References reflist External links official http www.rsabg.org scientific publications Category Botany journals Category Publications established in 1948 Category English language journals California stub botany stub biology journal stub ...   more details



  1. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

    Image Ranchosantaanabotanicgarden.jpg thumb right 300px Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden The Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in Claremont, California , in the United States, just south of the San Gabriel Mountains San Gabriel foothills. The garden, at convert 86 acre ha lk on , is a non profit organization dedicated to California native plants . The facility was open to the public with free admission for 58 years in 2009 an admission fee was implemented. The garden originated in 1927 when Susanna Bixby Bryant established a native garden on her rancho in Orange County, California Orange County . The garden relocated to Claremont in 1951. The garden now contains some 70,000 native Californian plants, representing 2,000 native species, Hybrid biology hybrids and cultivar s. The garden has an active research department, specializing in Systematics systematic botany and floristics . The combined herbarium of the garden and neighboring Pomona College holds over 1,000,000 specimens. The journal Aliso is published by the organization semiannually. The garden offers graduate degrees in botany through Claremont Graduate University . See also List of California native plants List of botanical gardens in the United States External links commons category Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden http www.rsabg.org Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden http www.pbase.com themarmot rsabg RSABG Gallery http www.yorbalindahistory.org gsdl cgi bin library?e d 000 00 0tescol 00 0 0 0prompt 10 4 0 1l 1 en 50 20 about 00031 001 1 0utfZz 8 00&a d&c tescol&cl CL1&d HASHd299aaa801f4202122be13 yorbalindahistory.org Developed by the Yorba Linda, California Yorba Linda Public Library. Includes a collection of historic magazine and newspaper articles and pamphlets about the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. coord 34 06 42 N 117 42 58 W display title Category Botanical gardens in California Category San Gabriel Valley Category Flora of California Category Parks in Los Angeles County, Califo ...   more details



  1. New Mexico State University Botanical Garden

    Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The New Mexico State University Botanical Garden is a group of botanical garden s, herbarium herbaria , and agricultural facilities associated with New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico . Fabian Garcia Research Center botanical garden, greenhouse , orchard, crop research fields, and turf demonstration plots. Mora Research Center a small forest, about Convert 49 acre m2 of irrigated tree plantations, and several research greenhouses. Located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains , it is one of New Mexico s leading forest genetics programs and conservation nurseries. Chile Pepper Institute Teaching and Demonstration Garden over 150 varieties of chile from all of the main species of Capsicum , including C. annuum , C. baccatum , C. chinense , and C. frutescens . New Mexico State University Herbarium acronym NMC about 68,000 specimens mainly representing New Mexico and northern Mexico. Current research is on floristics of New Mexico and northern Mexico, and systematics of Nyctaginaceae , Astragalus , Boechera , and Quercus . Range Science Herbarium acronym NMCR about 18,000 specimens, roughly half grasses, emphasizing the flora of New Mexico, with special strength in Aristida and Bothriochloa from western United States and northern Mexico. Also includes a beginning collection of about 170 moss es from New Mexico. See also List of botanical gardens in the United States Coord missing New Mexico Category Botanical gardens in New Mexico Category Herbaria Category New Mexico State University Category Parks in Do a Ana County, New Mexico US garden stub es Jard n Bot nico de la Universidad del Estado de Nuevo M xico ...   more details



  1. Allosyncarpia

    italic title taxobox name Allosyncarpia ternata regnum Plantae unranked divisio Angiosperm s unranked classis Eudicot s unranked ordo Rosid s ordo Myrtales familia Myrtaceae genus Allosyncarpia genus authority S.T.Blake species A. ternata binomial Allosyncarpia ternata binomial authority S.T.Blake synonyms Allosyncarpia ternata , commonly known as An binik , is a species of rainforest tree in the botany botanical family biology family Myrtaceae . It is a large, spreading, shady tree, and the only species in the genus Allosyncarpia . It is endemic to the Northern Territory of Australia where it is found in sandstone canyon gorges along creeks emerging from Arnhem Land . It was Species description described in 1981 by Stanley Thatcher Blake Stanley Blake of the Queensland Herbarium . ref name atrp Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Version 6.1 December 2010 . ref Distribution and habitat The tree dominates the closed monsoon rainforest plant community communities along the sandstone escarpment of the western Arnhem Land Plateau. The distribution of the species appears to be limited to areas not subject to wildfire . ref name bowman Bowman 1991 . ref Ecology Allosyncarpia dominated rainforest is an important vegetation community along the Floristics floristic boundary between the patches of monsoon forest that are sheltered from wildfire , and the fire tolerant, eucalypt dominated, tropical savanna s. ref name bowman References Notes reflist Sources cite web url http keys.trin.org.au 8080 key server data 0e0f0504 0103 430d 8004 060d07080d04 media Html taxon Allosyncarpia ternata.htm title Allosyncarpia ternata accessdate 2011 12 09 work Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Version 6.1 first last publisher CSIRO date 2010 12 00 cite journal author Bowman, D.M.J.S. year 1991 title Environmental determinants of Allosyncarpia ternata forests that are endemic to western Arnhem Land, northern Australia journal Australian Journal of Botany volume 39 issue 6 pages 575 589 ...   more details



  1. Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen

    Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen December 4, 1806 September 7, 1870 was a German botanist and teacher who was a native of Neuwied . He was a school teacher in Remagen , Winningen and beginning in 1831 at Koblenz . With botanist Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck 1787 1837 , he was founder of the Botanischer Verein am Mittel und Niederrhein Botanical Association of the Middle and Lower Rhine . Wirtgen specialized in the study of Rhineland flora, and his work largely dealt with phytogeography , taxonomy and floristics in the field of botany . Among his numerous publications was an 1857 book involving flora from Rhine Province called Flora der preu ischen Rheinprovinz und der zun chst angr nzenden Gegenden , and a treatise titled Neuwied und seine Umgebung Neuwied and its Environment . The plant genus Wirtgenia from the family Poaceae is named after him. botanist Wirtg. Wirtgen, Philipp Wilhelm References http translate.google.com translate?hl en&sl de&u http www.familie wirtgen.de Ahnen ahn phil schriften.htm&sa X&oi translate&resnum 8&ct result&prev search 3Fq 3D 2522Philipp 2BWilhelm 2BWirtgen 2527 26hl 3Den 26sa 3DG Homepage Familie Wirtgen biography of Philipp Wirtgen, translated from German reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wirtgen, Philipp Wilhelm ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION German botanist DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1806 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1870 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wirtgen, Philipp Wilhelm Category 1806 births Category 1870 deaths Category People from Neuwied Category German botanists Germany botanist stub de Philipp Wirtgen es Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen ...   more details



  1. Anglesea Heath

    Anglesea Heath is a 72 km sup 2 sup area of natural Heath habitat heath , woodland and forest in Victoria, Australia Victoria , south eastern Australia . It is about 100  km south west of Melbourne , just north of the coastal town of Anglesea, Victoria Anglesea and accessible from the Great Ocean Road . It comprises 67  km sup 2 sup of land managed for conservation and 5  km sup 2 sup of land used for coal mining and power generation at the Anglesea Power Station by Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals Alcoa Australia . It is subject to a cooperative management agreement between Parks Victoria and Alcoa and is notable for its floristics floristic values . ref name AHMP McMahon, Kate & Brighton, Michelle. 2002 . Anglesea Heath Management Plan November 2002 . Parks Victoria and Alcoa World Alumina Australia Melbourne. ISBN 0 7311 8330 4 http www.parkweb.vic.gov.au resources07 07 0858.pdf ref ref name LSP Citation title Anglesea Heath Visitor Guide work Park Notes publisher Parks Victoria date November 2006 url http www.parkweb.vic.gov.au resources05 05 0287.pdf accessdate 2011 02 14 ref Anglesea Heath is listed on the Australian Register of the National Estate . References reflist External links cite AHD 16617 Anglesea Heath Bald Hills Area coord 38 22 0 S 144 8 00 E region AU VIC type landmark display title Category Protected areas of Victoria Australia Category Register of the National Estate VictoriaAU geo stub de Anglesea Heath ...   more details



  1. Arthur Maillefer

    Arthur Maillefer July 25, 1880 in Lausanne November 21, 1960 was a Swiss people Swiss botany botanist and biogeography plant geographer . He studied numerous classic botanical disciplines, including plant systematics and floristics. He also was very modern in his use of numerical analysis and mathematics. For instance, he made one of the earliest null models in biogeography showing that in records of plant or animal species over space genus genera accumulate much faster than species and thereby refuting Paul Jaccard s interpretation of the species to genus ratio in Paul Jaccard Jaccard s dispute with Alvar Palmgren ref cite journal last Maillefer first A. year 1929 title Le Coefficient g n rique de P. Jaccard et sa signification journal M moires de la Societ Vaudoise de Sciences Naturelles volume 3 issue 4 pages 113 183 ref . Maillefer s statistical solution to the problem was later supported by an analytical solution by the Hungary Hungarian mathematician George P lya ref cite journal last P lya first G. year 1930 title Ein Wahrscheinlichkeitsaufgabe in der Pflanzensociologie journal Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Z rich volume 75 pages 211 219 ref . Maillefer took his PhD at the University of Lausanne . He became extraordinary professor in 1919 and succeeded his former doctoral advisor, Ernst Wilczek , in the chair of botany in 1949. From 1938 1950, he was also director of the Botanical Museum of the Canton. botanist Maill. Arthur Mailleffer References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Maillefer, Arthur ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1880 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1960 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Maillefer, Arthur Category Swiss botanists Category University of Lausanne alumni Category University of Lausanne faculty Category 1880 births Category 1960 deaths es Arthur Maillefer fr Arthur Maillefer ...   more details



  1. Phytogeography

    , and extinction of taxa. Floristics is a study of the flora of some territory or area. Traditional phytogeography concerns itself largely with floristics and floristic classification, see floristic ...   more details



  1. Jerzy Rzedowski

    Infobox person name Jerzy Rzedowski alt caption birth name Jerzy Rz dowski birth date Birth date and age 1926 12 27 birth place Lw w , Poland death date death place known for Pioneer in Neotropical floristics occupation Botanist nationality Mexican ethnicity religion spouse Graciela Calder n children parents awards footnotes Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter born December 27, 1926 is a Mexican botany botanist . He was born in Lw w , Poland now in Ukraine . While he was young he was made prisoner by the Germans. He remained in a Nazi concentration camps concentration camp until World War II finished and he was liberated by the Allies of World War II Allies . He then travelled to Mexico looking for a more peaceful country. He studied a bachelor s degree in Biology at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional and a PhD in Botany at Universidad Nacional Aut noma de M xico . His thesis on the Flora of the Pedregal de San Angel was quite important at this stage of his career. He worked at different companies and institutions such as Syntex , Smith, Kline & French , Colegio de Postgraduados, Universidad Aut noma de San Luis Potos and Instituto Politecnico Nacional. He did not just work in the herbarium . He explored a lot of places surveying the local plant life. He collected more than 50000 specimens that can be found in many herbaria. At the time that he started to work on Mexican floristics very few studies were published in that field, so he became a pioneer in it. Afterwards, he became the most respected botanist in Mexico. Rzedowski is the author of Vegetaci n de M xico 1971 , co editor and co author of Flora Fanerog mica del Valle de M xico 1979 2001, 2nd edition , and of Flora del Baj o y de Regiones Adyacentes 1991 . In 1995, he won the Asa Gray Award. In 1999 he was one of the botanists to whom it was conferred the Millennium Botany Award. In 2005 he was awarded the Jos Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany. The herbaria of Instituto Politecnico Nacional and of Uni ...   more details



  1. General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis

    and floristics of Australia, including comparisons with other continents. There is an interesting ...   more details



  1. António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva

    File Ant nio Rodrigo Pinto da Silva 198 Jos G. Passos.jpg commons thumb right Ant nio Rodrigo Pinto da Silva c. 1980 . Ant nio Rodrigo Pinto da Silva Porto , March 13, 1912 Lisbon , September 28, 1992 , often referred to as A.R. Pinto da Silva or P. Silva , was a Portuguese botanist who distinguished himself as a taxonomist and Phytosociology phytosociologist when he collaborated with Swiss botanist Josias Braun Blanquet . His studies on taxonomy and floristic yielded a substantial number of new Taxon taxa and a better knowledge about many plants and its Botanical nomenclature nomenclature . He organized the Esta o Agron mica Nacional s National Agronomic Station herbarium , which he rose from 3000 to almost 100,000 entries. He was a pioneer on ethnobotany studies in Portugal and published several contributions on vernacular nomenclature of Portuguese flora , cultivated plants and popular use of wild plants as food. For half a century he helped archaeologist s, having published numerous works on paleoethnobotany, among more than 300 articles, notes and communications published throughout his life both in Portuguese and foreign publications. Biography A. R. Pinto da Silva was born in 1912 in the parish of Cedofeita at Oporto. He graduated in agricultural engineering at Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon in 1937. Married to biologist Quit ria of Jesus Gon alves Pinto da Silva, they established Lisbon. In 1968 he became principal investigator at the National Agronomic Station, where he worked from 1937 to 1982, year of his retirement. Since its founding in 1939, he become head of the Systematics Phytosystematics and Geobotany departments, devoting himself to studies of flora and vegetation of mainland Portugal and also in the Azores . Besides the results of his activities, he sought to stimulate others in these and other fields of research, with considerable results. Studies in taxonomy, floristics and ethnobotany His studies in taxonomy ...   more details



  1. Coastal Strand

    Floristics The Jepson Herbarium, University of California Berkeley , http ucjeps.berkeley.edu ...   more details



  1. Zelkova abelicea

    , P. & Egli, B.R. Zelkova abelicea Ulmaceae in Crete Floristics, Ecology, Propagation and Threats ...   more details



  1. Tbilisi Botanical Garden

    File Botanical Garden & Narikala, Tbilisi.jpg thumb Tbilisi Botanical Garden and the ruins of Narikala Tbilisi Botanical Garden lang ka Formerly Royal garden is located in Tbilisi , capital of Georgia country Georgia , and lie in the Tsavkisis Tskali Gorge on the southern foothills of the Sololaki Range a spur of the Trialeti Range . It occupies the area of 161 hectares and possesses a collection of over 4,500 taxonomic groups. Its history spans more than three centuries. It was first described, in 1671, by the France French traveler Jean Chardin as royal gardens which might have been founded at least in 1625 and were variably referred to as fortress gardens or Seidabad gardens later in history. The gardens appear in the records by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort 1701 and on the Tbilisi map composed by Prince Vakhushti 1735 . Pillaged in the Battle of Krtsanisi Persian invasion of 1795, the garden was revived in the early 19th century and officially established as the Tiflis Botanical Garden in 1845. Image Tbilisi Botanical Garden.jpg thumb 250px left An arched bridge over the waterfall in the Tbilisi Botanical Garden constructed in 1914 Image Tbilisi Botanical Garden3.jpg thumb 250px left Palms in Tbilisi Botanical Garden From 1888 on, when a floristics center was set up, several notable scholars have worked for the Garden. Between 1896 and 1904, the Garden was expanded further westward. Between 1932 and 1958, the territory around the former Muslim cemetery was included in the botanical garden. Several graves have survived, however, including that of the prominent Azerbaijani people Azerbaijani writer Mirza Fatali Akhundov 1812 1878 . The central entrance to the Garden is located at the foothills of the Narikala Fortress . The other, cut through the rock as a long tunnel in 1909 14, had been functional until the mid 2000s when the tunnel was converted into Georgia s largest nightclub Gvirabi . References ge icon ...   more details



  1. Floral design

    Botany Plant Flora Flower Floristry Floristics Floriculture Horticulture Other History of flower ...   more details



  1. Anglesea Power Station

    Use dmy dates date March 2011 Anglesea Power Station is located at Anglesea, Victoria Anglesea , in Victoria Australia Victoria , Australia within the floristics floristically rich Anglesea Heath area. It is brown coal powered with one steam turbine with a capacity of 150 Megawatt MW of electricity , supplying almost 40 of the electricity used by the nearby Point Henry smelter Point Henry aluminium smelter , operated by Alcoa of Australia . The power station was brought online on 20 March 1969, ref R. Arklay and I. Sayer Geelong s Electric Supply September 1970 ref and is supplied with coal by the adjacent Surface mining open cut mine , transported to the power station along a 3 kilometre long private road. Overburden is stripped and backfilled into the mined area by earthmoving contractors using conventional power shovels and trucks. From 1955 test bores for coal were made at Anglesea by the Roche Brothers, who were then operating a mine at nearby Wensleydale, Victoria Wensleydale where the coal reserves were dwindling. An extensive coal deposit was found two kilometres to the north of the Anglesea township, with mining commencing in 1959 to supply brown coal to industry and institutions in the Geelong area. The mining rights were taken over by WMC Resources Western Mining Corporation WMC in 1961 to supply the power station planned by Alcoa of Australia. The Mines Aluminum Agreement Act of 1961 granted Alcoa a 50 year exclusive right to explore and mine over some 7,350 hectares of leasehold land in the region. ref name heritage cite web url http www.heritage.vic.gov.au Publications Typological studies Mining.aspx page Page 45 title Anglesea Brown Coal Mine work Coal Mining Heritage Study author Jack Vines year 2008 publisher www.heritage.vic.gov.au accessdate 7 March 2010 ref After further drilling investigation WMC relocated the mining operation to the east of the original mine, closer to the power station site and providing access to a larger coal reserve of 50 m ...   more details



  1. Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens

    begun by Dr. Bartlett nearly a century earlier. Current research focuses on local plant ecology such as floristics ...   more details



  1. Scatterometer

    dispersion by wind to explain the strong Floristics floristic affinities between landmasses ...   more details



  1. Emma Lucy Braun

    to research vascular plant floristics and deciduous forest s. She founded the Wildflower Preservation ...   more details



  1. Rogers McVaugh

    one source article date September 2009 Infobox scientist image image size 150px name Rogers McVaugh birth date birth date 1909 5 30 birth place New York City , New York , U.S. death date death date and age 2009 09 24 1909 05 30 death place Chapel Hill, North Carolina , U.S. field Botany alma mater Swarthmore College br University of Pennsylvania doctoral advisor Please insert doctoral students Please insert known for prizes Please insert Rogers McVaugh May 30, 1909 &ndash September 24, 2009 ref name ist160497 http www.herbarium.unc.edu Collectors McVaugh.htm Herbarium.UNC ref was a research professor of botany and the University of North Carolina UNC Herbarium s curator of Mexican plants. He was also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Professor Emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor . ref name ist160497 Biography Born in New York City , Rogers McVaugh was a brilliant student. He earned the bachelor s degree with highest honors in botany from Swarthmore College in 1931 and a Ph.D in botany from the University of Pennsylvania in 1935. ref name ist160497 McVaugh s first published paper is Recent Changes in the Composition of a Local Flora , published in 1935. His final publication was Marcus E. Jones in Mexico, 1892 , published in 2005. ref name ist160497 Writings McVaugh s last, partially completed, work was the Flora Novo Galiciana, a multi volume work focusing on the diverse flora of a region in western Mexico . In 1984, he was awarded the Botanical Society of America s Henry Allan Gleason Award for his work on this project. ref name ist160497 McVaugh published about 12 books and 200 shorter articles in history of botany, floristics and systematic botany, including Recent Changes in the Composition of a Local Flora http www.jstor.org pss 2481090 Family In 1937 Rogers McVaugh married Ruth Beall, who died in 1987. His two children are Michael Rogers McVaugh and Jenifer Beall McVaugh. ref name ist16 ...   more details



  1. Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold

    Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold 1828 1901 was a German lichenologist and taxonomist born in Ansbach , Bavaria . Even as a high school student he showed an active interest in botany Ich und August Gattinger ... durchstreiften von November 1846 bis zum Sp therbst 1847, Pflanzen sammelnd, die Landschaft von M nchen nach allen Richtungen. August Gattinger and I roamed across the landscape of Munich from November 1846 up to the late autumn 1847, collecting plants, in all directions. . ref name urlPhaneros and Pteridophytes A Collectors Index Herbarium M cite web url http www.botanik.biologie.uni muenchen.de botsyst ic ic pha a.htm title Phaneros and Pteridophytes A Collectors Index Herbarium M work accessdate 2009 03 30 ref He studied jurisprudence in Munich and Heidelberg and during his career practiced law in Eichst tt 1857 77 and Munich 1877 96 . He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Munich in 1878. Additionally he was a student of botanist s Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius 1794 1868 and Otto Sendtner 1813 1859 , and his spare time was devoted to floristics and classification of plants and fungi . His initial studies dealt with vascular plants , but his primary focus later shifted to lichens and bryophytes . Well known for his studies of herbarium specimens wikt exsiccatae exsiccatae , his personal herbarium contained approximately 150,000 specimens, largely consisting of lichen s and lichenicolous fungi. ref name urlFerdinand Christian Gustav Arnold cite web url http www.botanischestaatssammlung.de collectors arnold.html title Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold work accessdate 2009 03 30 ref Today this collection is kept at the Botanische Staatssammlung in Munich. Arnold was the author of Lichenologische Ausfl ge in Tirol Lichenological Excursions in Tyrol state Tyrol , which is still considered to be an important source of information on alpine lichenology . He was a founding member of the Bayerische Botanische Gesellschaft , and in 1878 he r ...   more details




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