Virtually any botanist in New Mexico would recognize the name Quercus gambelii. Fewer
would likely recognize the name Callipepla gambelii. The first is, of course, the ubiquitous …

Nine weeks of the season of I897, or from May ioth to July 17th, were spent in northern New
Mexico by Mrs. Heller and myself. We were located at Santa Fe, the bulk of the collecting …

On Oct. 14, 1950, the Dominican Government, acting through and for the people of the
Dominican Republic, dedicated a plaque honoring Erik L. Ekman in Ramfis Park in the …

Mappia Mexicana. A shrub, 5 feet in height: branches cov-ered with a light grayish cortex,
roughened by many small white lenticels: leaves oblanceolate, short-acuminate to an …

Rogers McVaugh was born in 1909 in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Roy and
Elizabeth McVaugh, who were both teaching in the public schools of Atlantic City. Rogers …

André Michaux, noted 18th century North American plant explorer extraordinaire, died on
the island of Madagascar two hundred years ago. On the oc-casion of the bicentennial of his …

New Mexico were regarded as the most forbidding countries in the world. Every one who
went there carried his life in his hand, and if he escaped the fierce Apaches and returned …

Dennis Eugene Breedlove (1939–2012), curator of botany at the California Academy of
Sciences from 1969 to 1994 and a prominent collector of Mexican plants, died on 4 June …

The 1936 botanical expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University
of Michigan to British Honduras undertook botanical studies from June through August on …

Comprising nearly 125,000 specimens, the herbarium of North Carolina State University
(NCSC) is currently the 3rd largest collection in North Carolina. Although previously tracing …