Word: flora
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Botanical Club. Paper: Some Considerations on the Flora of Mexico. Mr. J. M. Greenman. University Museum, Room...
...Monday.Botanical Club. Paper: Some Considerations on the Flora of Mexico. Mr. J. M. Greenman. University Museum, Room...
...sixteen hundred flowering plants of the district could be called characteristic. All of the rest pass freely back and forth over barriers which exist only on the map. The vegetation of a country is the expression of ancestral peculiarities modified by the surroundings. The remote ancestry of our flora was proved by the late Professor Gray to be the same as that of Eastern Asia, and hence many species occur in the Atlantic States which are substantially like those of Japan. The species have undergone slightly different development since the geological period when they parted company. But, still, they...
...there is a brilliant mass of "flame" Azaleas and Rhododendrons, with their humbler relatives from the swamps. Further on is a large group of desert plants, fringed under the higher maples and magnolias, with tree ferns and palms from the conservatory. Fronting these are clustered excellent representatives of the flora of the Australasian colonies. If the walk be now continued through the main paths, one comes in succession upon the representative plants of the northern flora of our own country, here and there intermingled with specimens illustrating their foreign relationships. The American Gardan is behind the first range of greenhouses...
...main object of the expedition is to see and locate the Grand Falls of Labrador, which are said to be the largest in the world, and which only four white men are known to have visited. Another object of the trip is to gather collections of the fauna and flora of Labrador, about which little is definitely known, for the interior of this country is the largest unexplored tract of land in America. The expedition will leave New York in the latter part of June, to return by the first of October. The party will be composed in the main...