He became interested in botany as a boy and explored adjacent regions.He had come in contact with various botanists before he entered college.He graduated from the University of California in 1889, and the following year became an assistant in botany.…
This work introduced a number of plant species previously unknown to European botanists.The new species included Abrus, Abelmoschus, Lablab, and Melochia, each of which are native to tropical areas and were cultivated with artificial irrigation in Egypt at the time.…
Salvia viridis was known as Salvia horminum for many years, as Carl Linnaeus described S. viridis and S. horminum as separate species in 1753.Some modern botanists still believe that they are two separate species.Salvia viridis quickly grows to tall and wide, with a flowering period of over a month.…
Did I ever tell you that we are becoming great botanists?I have some hopes of equalling you before we meet, as I feel new light breaks upon me every day, and every night too, for I try so hard to repress my ardour during the day for fear of being tiresome to everybody, that my dreams are of nothing else.…Cited from Lady John Russell, by Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell
Subsequently he established the modern way of classifying vegetation according to floristic composition.This is what makes him one of the most influential botanists until today.…
He went to Scotland to study at the University of Edinburgh, earning the M.A. in 1729, then studying medicine until 1731 but without receiving the M.D. He then returned to Virginia to practice medicine; by 1735 he had set up his practice at Urbanna.In his spare time he studied natural history and became known as a botanist.In 1745 Mitchell argued that a series of epidemics occurring in Virginia were due to unsanitary troop ships from Britain.…
She knows what she is about, but botanists don't always know what they are saying.Cited from In Search of the Castaways, by Jules Verne
Don't the botanists put it highest in the line of development?Cited from Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
Each of these are considered by many botanists as separate species.
The genus Carpinis is widely distributed throughout the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.There are nine species known to botanists, most of them being middle-sized trees.In addition to those mentioned below, figures of which are herewith given, there are four species from Japan and one from the Himalayan region which do not yet seem to have found their way to this country; these five are therefore omitted.…Cited from Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884, by Various
To attempt any description of the varied forms of cactus in Mexico would be out of the question.In the northern provinces alone, botanists have described above eight hundred species.…Cited from Anahuac, by Edward Burnett Tylor
As these two products are very little known in Europe, it has seemed to us that it would be of interest to give a description and chemical analysis of them.We shall say but little of the plant, which has sufficiently occupied botanists.…Cited from Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887, by Various
Not daunted, he set about the collection of new specimens and organised expeditions to various corners of South Africa.He was an excellent field botanist and published numerous books on his observations.Although adventurous by nature, he was also quiet and unassuming.…
The following letters are quoted chiefly for the additional information they afford on the subject of his travels and pursuits.His letters to Botanists would of course be more important and interesting.…Cited from Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, . . ., by William Griffith
Some resemblance, on the other hand, existing between these -- as well as from their being eaten by different nations, and used as an article of food, and also for producing oil -- rendered the true description still more difficult.Botanists are, however, no longer at a loss, having well established the nature and character of all these plants.…Cited from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom, by P. L. Simmonds
John Weir was travelling for them when he sent living specimens in 1862.It is not surprising that botanists thought it new after what has been said.As such Mr. Bateman named it after the young Princess of Wales -- a choice most appropriate in every way.…Cited from About Orchids, by Frederick Boyle
It doesn't show itself to you right away.It isn't even necessary to know the names of things the way a botanist would.It's more important to be aware of the 'suchness' of the thing; it's a reality.…
By 1895, under Ernest Wilczek, director of the botanical garden in Lausanne, the collection counted already some 2000 species.The garden takes its name from the family Thomas that gave four generations of botanists.The first was Pierre Thomas, who began his work under the direction of Albrecht von Haller, the author of the first flora of Switzerland.…
Probably for this reason, it was not well received by conservative botanists of the day.The Natural Arrangement of British Plants also included substantial sections on fungi, then classed as cryptogamic plants, introducing many new genera, including Auriscalpium, Coltricia, Leccinum, and Steccherinum, that remain in current use.…
In 1817, he became one of the founders of the New York Lyceum of Natural History (now the New York Academy of Science), and one of his first contributions to this body was his Catalogue of Plants growing spontaneously within Thirty Miles of the City of New York (Albany, 1819).Its publication gained for him the recognition of foreign and native botanists.In 1824 he issued the only volume of his Flora of the Northern and Middle States.…
