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The New York Botanical Garden
\"In celebration of the Garden's 125th anniversary, this book documents its role as a place of unparalleled beauty in the heart of New York City and an internationally renowned leader in plant research and conservation, as well as science and organic gardening education for children. This revised edition includes more than two hundred stunning new photographs by Larry Lederman, reproductions of rare botanical art from the archival collections, and engaging essays by Garden staff that highlight the expansive growth and development the Garden continues to experience.... Readers will learn how the Garden continues to fulfill its founders' ambitious goals as an iconic museum of plants, stewarding the historic landscape since 1891 and committed to efforts--locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally--to teach humankind about the critical importance of plants for an economically and ecologically sustainable future\"--Dust jacket.
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The Vascular Flora of Chewacla State Park, Lee County, Alabama
Initially formed as a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in 1935, Chewacla State Park is a 282 ha property established in 1939. The park is currently managed by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, State Parks Division as a public recreational resource. A floral survey of this area was conducted from August 2014 through May 2019. A total of 704 species (incl. five hybrids) from 415 genera and 137 families were collected in the park. Asteraceae was the largest family with 98 species. Poaceae, Fabaceae, and Cyperaceae were the next largest families with 72, 48, and 48 species, respectively. Carex (Cyperaceae) was the largest genus, represented by 25 species. Seventy species are reported for the first time from Lee County, and one for the state of Alabama. One hundred and thirty-nine (19.7%) non-native species were collected during the surveys. Voucher plant collections made for this study are held at the Alabama Natural Heritage Section Herbarium (ALNHS) and the John D. Freeman Herbarium (AUA) with duplicates sent to the Anniston Museum of Natural History Herbarium (AMAL) and New York Botanical Gardens (NYBG).
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Urban Community Gardens as Contested Space
This article examines community gardens in Loisaida, a part of the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The area is crime ridden, and most of the residents are poor. The gardens serve social and economic functions such as safe, open spaces for socialization and sources of food. Competition for use of the sites for gardening or housing has emerged as a major problem.
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Gods and Goddesses in the Garden
Zeus, Medusa, Hercules, Aphrodite. Did you know that these and other dynamic deities, heroes, and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology live on in the names of trees and flowers? Some grow in your local woodlands or right in your own backyard garden.
In this delightful book, botanist Peter Bernhardt reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names. Unlike other books about botanical taxonomy that take the form of heavy and intimidating lexicons, Bernhardt's account comes together in a series of interlocking stories. Each chapter opens with a short version of a classical myth, then links the tale to plant names, showing how each plant \"resembles\" its mythological counterpart with regard to its history, anatomy, life cycle, and conservation. You will learn, for example, that as our garden acanthus wears nasty spines along its leaf margins, it is named for the nymph who scratched the face of Apollo. The shape-shifting god, Proteus, gives his name to a whole family of shrubs and trees that produce colorful flowering branches in an astonishing number of sizes and shapes.
Amateur and professional gardeners, high school teachers and professors of biology, botanists and conservationists alike will appreciate this book's entertaining and informative entry to the otherwise daunting field of botanical names. Engaging, witty, and memorable, Gods and Goddesses in the Garden transcends the genre of natural history and makes taxonomy a topic equally at home in the classroom and at cocktail parties.
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Juncus diffusissimus, an addition to the flora of New York, with notes on its recent spread in the United States
Lamont, E. E. (Local Flora Committee, Torrey Botanical Society, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458) and S. M. Young (New York Natural Heritage Program, 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233). Juncus diffusissimus, an addition to the flora of New York, with notes on its recent spread in the United States. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 132: 635-643. 2005.—The first New York State record for Juncus diffusissimus Buckley (Juncaceae) is reported from Suffolk County, Long Island. An historical account of the species' original range and post-1900 migration in the United States is presented. The nativity status of J. diffusissimus and several other species that have spontaneously migrated into new territories in eastern United States during the past 100 years is discussed.
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Yadkin River Goldenrod and Heller’s Blazing Star
We begin the journey by following in the footsteps of two college students in their early twenties who forged a lifetime friendship while plant hunting in the wilds of the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1891. To examine their fieldwork in North Carolina before the turn of the twentieth century is to understand something about how botany has been practiced over the past two centuries. Among the plants that John Kunkel Small and Amos Arthur Heller found while hiking that long-ago summer was a never-before-seen goldenrod that was soon to be all but forgotten in botanical literature. When the goldenrod was
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DR. THOMAS F. LUCY: EARLY BOTANIST OF THE CHEMUNG RIVER VALLEY, NEW YORK
Thomas Francis Lucy (1844—1906) was an eclectic medical doctor who devoted most of his life to studying the plants of the Susquehanna Valley, specifically the Chemung River Valley, Chemung County, New York. He also spent his later life collecting and exchanging specimens of North American plants. The main collection of the Flora of the Upper Susquehanna that he prepared for the Elmira Academy of Sciences is currently housed at ECH. Other specimens collected by Lucy are located at BH-CU, NYS, NY, F, US, and MIN. After his death, many of his North American specimens were deposited in BUF. These are currently being curated at ECH.
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