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H. N. Patterson
Harry Norton Patterson (February 15, 1853 – May 22, 1919) was an American printer and botanist. Patterson was born on February 15, 1853. His father was Edwin H. N. "Sniktau" Patterson, the namesake of Mount Sniktau. He started his career as an apprentice to his grandfather, the publisher of the ''Oquawka Spectator'' newspaper. At the age of 19, he published his first botanical paper, which was a catalog of plants collected around his hometown of Oquawka, Illinois. Merritt Lyndon Fernald remarked on the thoroughness of this text. He began to study the flora of Colorado sporadically between 1880 and 1895, with his early trips focused on the Gore Range. In 1884, Patterson took control of the ''Spectator''. He often collaborated with botanists such as Michael Schuck Bebb, Cyrus Pringle, Edward Lee Greene, William Marriott Canby, and Asa Gray, and exchanged printed floras with his contemporaries. He also published works by other botanists, including John Donnell Smith's catalog o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oquawka, Illinois
Oquawka is a village in Henderson County, Illinois, Henderson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,371 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Henderson County. Oquawka is part of the Burlington, Iowa, Burlington, Iowa, IA–IL Burlington micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Oquawka is located at (40.938880, -90.949044). According to the 2010 census, Oquawka has a total area of , of which (or 79.07%) is land and (or 20.93%) is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the censusProfile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2012-17-08 of 2010, there were 1,371 people, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Donnell Smith
Captain John Donnell Smith (June 5, 1829 – December 2, 1928) of Baltimore, Maryland was a biologist and taxonomist. He was also an officer in the Confederate army. He was a graduate of Yale in 1847, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He was a botanical researcher; a trustee of Peabody Institute in Baltimore (1888–1915). He was a Captain in the Confederate Army, and Commander of Battery A, 10th Battalion (Huger's Battalion) of Virginia Artillery (known as the Bedford Light Artillery), serving in every campaign and battle of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was severely wounded at Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox in April 1865. In 1890, botanists J.M.Coult. & Rose named a genus of plants from central America, after him. The name of ''Donnellsmithia'' was published in Bot. Gaz. Vol.15 on page 15 in 1890. In January 1906, he presented his herbarium consisting of more than 100,000 mounted specimens and his botanical library of over 1600 boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1853 Births
Events January–March * January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida. * January 8 – Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan is ordered to assist the governor of Hunan in organising a militia force to search for local bandits. * January 12 – Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping army occupies Wuchang. * January 19 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Il Trovatore'' premieres in performance at Teatro Apollo in Rome. * February 10 – Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces assemble at Hanyang, Hankou, and Wuchang, for the march on Nanjing. * February 12 – The city of Puerto Montt is founded in the Reloncaví Sound, Chile. * February 22 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary. * March – The clothing company Levi Strauss & Co. is founded in the United States. * March 4 – Inauguration of Franklin Pierce as 14th President of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Museum Of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, and its extensive scientific-specimen and artifact collections. The permanent exhibitions, which attract up to two million visitors annually, include fossils, current cultures from around the world, and interactive programming demonstrating today's urgent conservation needs. The museum is named in honor of its first major benefactor, Marshall Field, the department-store magnate. The museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair. The museum maintains a temporary exhibition program of traveling shows as well as in-house produced topical exhibitions. The professional staff maintains collections of over 24 million specimens and objects tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vasey (botanist)
George Vasey (February 28, 1822 – March 3, 1893) was an English-born American botanist who collected a lot in Illinois before integrating the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), where he became Chief Botanist and curator of the greatly expanded National Herbarium. Biography George Vasey was born in 1822 near Scarborough, England, the fourth of ten children. His family emigrated to the United States the next year, and they established in Oriskany, New York. He left school at 12 to take a job as a store clerk. He took interest in botany after borrowing and, since he could not afford the volume, manually copying a book on the subject. This interest was later encouraged after a chance encounter with Peter D. Knieskern, another naturalist who allowed Vasey to begin writing to various other botanists. Until 1870 he would maintain an extensive correspondence and collect a great many specimens both in Oneida County and later McHenry County, but did not publish material of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poa Pattersonii
''Poa'' is a genus of about 570 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly in Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly in North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass. ''Poa'' () is Greek for "fodder". ''Poa'' are members of the subfamily Pooideae of the family Poaceae. Bluegrass, which has green leaves, derives its name from the seed heads, which are blue when the plant is allowed to grow to its natural height of two to three feet (0.6 to 0.9 meters). The genus ''Poa'' includes both annual and perennial species. Most are monoecious, but a few are dioecious (separate male and female plants). The leaves are narrow, folded or flat, sometimes bristled, and with the basal sheath flattened or sometimes thickened, with a blunt or hooded apex and membranaceous ligule. Cultivation and uses Many of the species are important pasture plants, used extensively by grazing livestock. Kentucky bluegrass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machaeranthera Pattersonii
''Dieteria bigelovii'', also known as Bigelow's tansyaster or sticky aster, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. Description ''D. bigelovii'' is a biennial or perennial herb growing to in height. The leaves are long with sharp teeth. Between August and October, the plant produces several flower heads about wide. The blue or purple ray florets are female, while the yellow disc florets are bisexual. The ray florets close upwards in shade. The fruit is seedlike, with bristles at the tip. True asters are similar, but usually lack spiny or divided leaves. Taxonomy ;Varieties * ''Dieteria bigelovii'' var. ''bigelovii'' - Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming * ''Dieteria bigelovii'' var. ''commixta'' (Greene) D.R.Morgan & R.L.Hartm. - Wasatch Mountains in Utah * ''Dieteria bigelovii'' var. ''mucronata'' (Greene) D.R.Morgan & R.L.Hartm. - Kaibab Plateau in northern Arizona Distribution and habitat The species is native to the southwestern United States (Ariz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptantha Pattersonii
''Cryptantha'' is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. They are known commonly as cat's eyes and popcorn flowers (the latter name is also used to refer to the closely related genus ''Plagiobothrys'',Hasenstab-Lehman, K. E. and M. G. Simpson. (2012)Cat's eyes and popcorn flowers: phylogenetic systematics of the genus ''Cryptantha'' s. l. (Boraginaceae).''Systematic Botany'' 37(3), 738-57. and members of the subtribe of ''Amsinckiinae''). They are distributed throughout western North America and western South America, but they are absent from the regions in between. These are annual or perennial herbs usually coated in rough hairs and bearing rounded flower corollas that are almost always white, but are yellow in a few species. Several morphological characters are used to distinguish species from one another, but the most definitive is the form of the nutlet, which varies in shape, size, color, and pattern of attachment. Systematics The genus has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astragalus Pattersonii
''Astragalus'' is a large genus of over 3,000 species of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae and the subfamily Faboideae. It is the largest genus of plants in terms of described species. The genus is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Common names include milkvetch (most species), locoweed (in North America, some species) and goat's-thorn ( ''A. gummifer'', ''A. tragacantha''). Some pale-flowered vetches (''Vicia'' spp.) are similar in appearance, but they are more vine-like than ''Astragalus''. Description Most species in the genus have pinnately compound leaves. There are annual and perennial species. The flowers are formed in clusters in a raceme, each flower typical of the legume family, with three types of petals: banner, wings, and keel. The calyx is tubular or bell-shaped. Ecology ''Astragalus'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including many case-bearing moths of the genus ''Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemesia Pattersonii
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Artemesia may refer to: * Artemisia I of Caria, a female general of the Persian King Xerxes * ''Artemesia'' (crustacean), a genus of prawns in the family Penaeidae * Artemesia Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, United States * Lake Artemesia, a man-made lake in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States * Artemesia, a township in the Canadian municipality of Grey Highlands, Ontario, Canada See also * Artemisia (other) * Artemisa (other) * Artemia * Artemis (other) Artemis is the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, and chastity. Artemis may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Artemis (DC Comics), a goddess in the DC Universe * Artemis (M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stylisma Pickeringii Var
''Stylisma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the morning glory family, commonly known as dawnflowers. This genus is native to the eastern United States. This genus consists of low vining or trailing herbs. They are found primarily in the Southeastern Coastal Plain in sandy habitats. However one species, ''Stylisma pickeringii'', extends into the Midwest The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four Census Bureau Region, census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of .... Species The following species are recognised in the genus ''Stylisma'': * '' Stylisma abdita'' Myint * '' Stylisma aquatica'' (Walter) Raf. * '' Stylisma humistrata'' (Walter) Chapm. * '' Stylisma patens'' (Desr.) Myint * '' Stylisma pickeringii'' (Torr. ex M.A.Curtis) A.Gray * '' Stylisma villosa'' (Nash) House References {{Taxonbar, from=Q292873 Convolvulaceae Convolv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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