Collections from the Gettysburg College Herbarium now deposited at The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY) (original) (raw)
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In celebration of The New York Botanical Garden’s 125th anniversary, we present an updated description of the specimen holdings and activities of The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden (NY) from 1995 to 2015. During this time, the collection grew to approximately 7.8 million specimens, a new International Plant Sciences Center was built to house the Herbarium and LuEsther T. Mertz Library, many plant families and other taxonomic groups grew in scope and taxonomic comprehensiveness, Southeast Asia developed as a new focus of collecting activities, and the Herbarium emerged as a leader in specimen digitization.
Brittonia, 1991
5126). Notable collections represented in the Truman G. Yuncker Herbarium (DPU), now deposited at the New York Botanical Garden (NY). Brittonia 43: 269-276. 1991.-The integration of the vascular plants from the Yuncker Herbarium (DPU) into the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY) has been completed, and the curatorial work is summarized. The most notable vascular plant collections, with emphasis on the local collections from Indiana, are reported on and a list of the most prominent collectors is presented. An index to all collectors of vascular plants represented in the Yuncker Herbarium has been deposited in the New York Botanical Garden Library.
Pennsylvanian floras from Italy: an overview of the main sites and historical collections.
RONCHI, A., KUSTATSCHER, E., PITTAU, P. & SANTI, G. , 2012
The paper provides an overview of the main Pennsylvanian sites in Italy yielding associations rich in plants and/or palynomorphs. So far in Italy, the principal outcrops are located in the Southern Alps, Tuscany and Sardinia. In the Western Southern Alps and bordering Switzerland, Westphalian outcrops are small and scattered. Nevertheless, one of them yielded an abundant fossil flora, stored at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Milan, (Venzo and Maglia Collection). In the Carnic Alps, (Eastern Southern Alps), continental deposits of Moscovian to Gzhelian age also occur near the border with Austria. They have produced a high number of preserved plant fossils, presently stored in the Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale of Udine. In Tuscany, the two main sections yielding Westphalian to Autunian floras are those of the Iano and Pisani Mountains. A rich collection of plant fossils from those sites is hosted at the Museo di Storia Naturale of Florence University and at the Museum of Natural History of Pisa University. In Sardinia, plant fossil sites are located in the south west and central east parts of the island. The San Giorgio Basin (Iglesiente subregion) and the Tuppa Niedda section (Arburese subregion) are late Westphalian – early Stephanian in age. In the Barbagia at SeuiSeulo and the Gerrei subregions, other continental basins yielded transitional “StephanianAutunian” fossil plant associations. The slabs are stored as part of the Lovisato Collection at the Lovisato Museum of the Chemical and Geoscience Department of Cagliari University. Smaller historical outcrops of Carboniferous age are also known from other Italian regions, such as Liguria.
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Loss of small herbaria is an unfortunate global trend, and initiation of new collections at small academic institutions is an increasingly rare occurrence. In 2006, a new herbarium was established at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. The PLAT herbarium has since grown to more than 7,000 specimens, many of them representative of the flora of northeastern New York (especially Clinton County). Previous to 2006, this region was without a recognized herbarium, the nearest in-state collections being more than 150 miles away. Although botanists have previously worked in the region, relatively few plant species were recorded for Clinton County by the New York Flora Atlas – a resource providing species distribution records based on specimens accessioned in herbarium collections. Given the dearth of available distribution data for Clinton County (including the eastern Adirondack Mountains and the western Lake Champlain valley), this project sought to provide records of previously unreported species by comparing NY Flora Atlas maps with current holdings. 203 species will now be added to the NY Flora Atlas for Clinton County, roughly half of those considered exotic. This exercise has amplified the importance of supporting and maintaining small regional herbaria as repositories of valuable biodiversity information. Likewise, this project also highlights the enduring value of training in floristics and taxonomy.
Webbia, 2018
The interest of Antonio Bertoloni in collecting plants was the focus of all his life and it was the driving force that led him to make of one of the most important herbarium collections in Italy: Hortus Siccus Florae Italicae. When in 1816, thanks to Gaetano Savi, Professor of Botany in Pisa and close friend of Giuseppe Raddi, he was appointed as full Professor of Botany at the University of Bologna, he devoted himself completely to teaching, researching, the care of the Botanic Garden and especially to the enterprise he was planning since he was a young student: the publication of the first Italian Flora, which gave him the fame he deserved. During the collection of the huge amount of data necessary to complete this great opera, he went on gathering plants for the Hortus Siccus Exoticus, a herbarium containing more than 10,000 specimens of plants from all over the world. Giuseppe Raddi was one of the main contributors, sending more than 200 plants in 20 years. Raddi must have held Bertoloni in high esteem, sending him newly discovered species in search of approval, and naming after him the genus Bertolonia (family Melastomataceae). The Herbarium of the University of Bologna is carrying out a complete survey of all the specimens sent by Raddi and the digitalisation of the results on the website http:// botanica.sma.unibo.it/raddi.
The Herbarium of Pisa Botanic Garden : Scientific Tradition Shapes its Future
Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India, 1994
Almost 450 ye= ago, the foundation of the first Botanic Garden% to'which herbaria were readily associated, marked the birth of botany as autonomous discipline. Atter alterne phases of concern a d disregard as to their role, today it is generally acknowledged that these institutions resources and capabilities must be exploited to suc~es~filly confi.ont with the global challenge posed by environment degradation. In our country, tllis awareness is mirrored by the attentive interest paid to a recent international symposium organized by the Botanic Garden of Pisa, in celebration of its 400 years od existence and activity, during which the role of herbaria was also discussed, and by the expectations raised by the congresses scheduled at the Herbarium of Florence (September, 1992) and at the Botanic Garden of Padua (1995). The Herbarium of Pisa has a long standing tradition of study and research. At present, it is divided in two sections : the historical md the current collections. The historical colledions, assembled hy renowned botanists, such as Giuseppe Raddi, Gaetano Savi and Teodoro Caruel, mainly in the last century, are not added to, in view oftheir value as documentation of their compiler's activity; furthemore, they contain several type specimens. The current collection, on the other hand, is routinely added to with exsiccata of various origin, ranging from S. Europe to N. Africa and Middle East. The overall 500000 specimens maintained in the Herbarium provide a noteworthy body of scientific data recorded over a'considerable length of time. Current research and management activity are briefly discussed.
University of Richmond Herbarium
1984
maintains an herbarium of approximately 15,000 specimens. Although recently assigned the acronym URV, this collection has not yet been included in Index Herbariorum and, consequently, few botanists outside of Virginia are aware of its existence. This note provides a brief account of the history of URV, a summary of its contents, and a short bibliography of works pertaining to the collection. The first herbarium collection at the University of Richmond was that of Paul R. Merriman, who assembled a set of vouchers for his Flora of Richmond and Vicinity. Unfortunately, his collections were lost in a fire which destroyed the Science Building on 20 October 1925. Despondent, Merriman died shortly thereafter. His manuscript and a set of illustrations prepared by Mary S. Lynn survived the blaze, and from these the Flora Committee of the Virginia Academy of Science published Merriman's florula posthumously in 1930. This work excluded grasses, sedges, and trees; nevertheless, it has been widely used in the Richmond area for the identification of wildflowers. In essence, the extant herbarium collection at the University of Richmond was founded by Robert F. Smart, who joined the staff of the Department of Biology in 1929. Smart was responsible for the early growth of the herbarium by his own collections (primarily myxomycetes and fungi), the collections of his students, and by his contacts with botanists at Harvard University where he did his graduate work. Through this Harvard connection, David H. Linder and Merritt L. Fernald deposited many specimens from their collecting trips in Virginia in the University ofRichmond Herbarium. Ultimately, Fernald conducted some 44 field trips in Virginia on which he was accompanied variously by Bayard Long, Ludlow Griscom, Robert Smart, John M. Fogg, Everett Luttrell, and others. On several of these trips, Fernald used Maryland Hall, which then housed the Department of Biology, as base camp for his collecting forays. Fernald's accounts of these excursions are published in Rhodora, the first installment appearing in volume 3 7. Virginia plants collected by Fernald form the nucleus of the vascular plant specimens in the University of Richmond Herbarium. Curatorship of the herbarium succeeded to John C. Strickland when Smart became engaged in administrative duties during the I 940's. Strickland concentrated primarily on Myxophyceae (bluegreen algae) during his tenure as curator. In 1977 the herbarium was moved to its present location in the Gottwald Science Center and, since 1980, the author has curated the collection. Current curatorial improvements are bringing the collection to an acceptable condition of usefulness. These activities have also permitted making accurate counts of specimens in the collection. Estimates of holdings for major groups of plants in the University of Richmond Herbarium, with notes on the most important collectors, are as follows:
The En Tibi herbarium, a 16th century Italian treasure
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
Here for you a smiling garden of everlasting flowers' is the inscription in Latin of a 16 th century Italian herbarium kept in Leiden, the Netherlands, since 1690. The origin and botanical content of this herbarium, one of the oldest in existence today, have remained largely unknown. Here we present the plants included in this so-called 'En Tibi' herbarium, which comprises 473 specimens (455 taxa, 97 families), and discuss the geographical provenance of the book based on certain plant traits. The En Tibi is of great historical value as it contains some of the earliest herbarium records of numerous species, among which are useful plants such as oregano, thyme, tomato and hot pepper. Although prepared as a present, the En Tibi is a fine example of new botanical trends that arose in 16 th century Italy. It is an attempt to reconstruct the herbals of classical authors such as Dioscorides, Theophrastus and Pliny, not with illustrations but with actual plant individuals. More than just a collection of medicinal plants, the En Tibi shows an emerging interest in the study of taxonomy and the discovery of new plants, unknown to classical authors. Analysis of the intrinsic and extrinsic traits of the plants reveals a temperate-Mediterranean origin, suggesting that the book was made in central or north-central Italy. Our botanical identification is the first necessary step to further elucidate the origin of the En Tibi and trace the mysterious compiler of this magnificent collection. ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: ancient DNA barcoding-ancient herbaria-historical collections-history of botany-Italian flora.