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William Jameson (botanist Born 1796)
William ("Gulielmo") Jameson (1796–1873) was a Scottish-Ecuadorian botanist. He was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He made several voyages as a ship's surgeon, first to Baffin Bay, then to South America. In 1826 he settled in Quito, Ecuador. He was then appointed professor of chemistry and botany at Universidad Central del Ecuador. He went back to Edinburgh in 1869, returned to Quito in 1872, and died shortly thereafter. Jameson made botanical investigations and collections in Greenland, Ecuador and in other South American countries. He began writing a flora of Ecuador, ''Synopsis Plantarum Aequatoriensium'', of which Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1865. The work was not completed. Jameson is commemorated in the name of the Andean snipe, ''Gallinago jamesoni'', and a species of Buddleja bush found in Ecuador, '' Buddleja jamesonii''. As well as '' Jamesonia'' by in the Pteridaceae Pteridaceae is a family of ferns in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jameson, Por Antonio Salas (1842)
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andean Snipe
The Jameson's snipe or Andean snipe (''Gallinago jamesoni'') is a small, stocky wader. It breeds in the Andes in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It appears to be entirely sedentary, with no evidence of migration. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the Fuegian snipe, ''Gallinago stricklandii'', which is also known as the Cordilleran snipe. The scientific name of the Jameson's snipe commemorates the Scottish botanist William Jameson. Description This 30–32 cm long snipe has a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader. Its upperparts, head and neck are streaked and patterned with warm brown and buff, and the gold edges to the feathers form lines down its back, which are not as sharply defined as in most snipe species. The belly is white with brown barring. The horn-colored bill is long, straight and fairly robust. The legs and feet are yellowish-green. The sexes are similar, and immatures differ only in showing pale fringes on the wing co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1796 Births
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Botanists Active In South America
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name. Botany is one of the few sciences which can boast, since the Middle Ages, of a substantial participation by women. A *Erik Acharius *Julián Acuña Galé *Johann Friedrich Adam *Carl Adolph Agardh *Jacob Georg Agardh *Nikolaus Ager *William Aiton *Frédéric-Louis Allamand *Carlo Allioni *Prospero Alpini * Benjamin Alvord *Adeline Ames *Eliza Frances Andrews *Agnes Arber *Giovanni Arcangeli *David Ashton *William Guybon Atherstone *Anna Atkins * Daniel E. Atha *Armen Takhtajan B * Ernest Brown Babcock *Churchill Babington *Curt Backeberg *James Eustace Bagnall *Jacob Whitman Bailey *Liberty Hyde Bailey *Ibn al-Baitar *Giovanni Battista Balbis *John Hutton Balfour *Joseph Banks * César Barbosa * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanists Active In The Arctic
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia Article (publishing), articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of Plant taxonomy, plant taxonomists because an author receives a Author citation (botany), standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new Botanical name, plant name. Botany is one of the few sciences which can boast, since the Middle Ages, of a substantial participation by women. A *Erik Acharius *Julián Acuña Galé *Johann Friedrich Adam *Carl Adolph Agardh *Jacob Georg Agardh *Nikolaus Ager *William Aiton *Frédéric-Louis Allamand *Carlo Allioni *Prospero Alpini *Benjamin Alvord (mathematician), Benjamin Alvord *Adeline Ames *Eliza Frances Andrews *Agnes Arber *Giovanni Arcangeli *David Ashton (botanist), David Ashton *William Guybon Atherstone *Anna Atkins *Daniel E. Atha *Armen Takhtajan B *E. B. Babcock, Ernest Brown Babcock *Churchill Babington *Curt Backeberg *James Eustac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Botanists
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Gray Herbarium Library
Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed of black and white. It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash and of lead. The first recorded use of ''grey'' as a color name in the English language was in 700 CE.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196 ''Grey'' is the dominant spelling in European and Commonwealth English, while ''gray'' has been the preferred spelling in American English; both spellings are valid in both varieties of English. In Europe and North America, surveys show that grey is the color most commonly associated with neutrality, conformity, boredom, uncertainty, old age, indifference, and modesty. Only one percent of respondents chose it as their favorite color. Etymology ''Grey'' comes from the Middle English o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelanthaceae
Adelanthaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Jungermanniales Jungermanniales is the largest order of liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps on either side of the stem. Most other liverworts are thalloid, with no leaves. Due to their dorsiventral organization .... Genera: (with how many species per genus) * '' Adelanthus'' Mitt. - 11 spp. * '' Cuspidatula'' Steph. - 7 spp. * '' Denotarisia'' Grolle - 1 sp. * '' Jamesoniella'' (Spruce) Carrington - 19 spp. * '' Nothostrepta'' R.M.Schust. - 2 spp. * '' Pisanoa'' Hässel - 1 sp. * '' Protosyzygiella'' (Inoue) R.M.Schust. - 1 sp. * '' Pseudomarsupidium'' Herzog - 5 spp. * '' Syzygiella'' Spruce - 56 spp. * '' Vanaea'' (Inoue & Gradst.) Inoue & Gradst. - 1 sp. * '' Wettsteinia'' Schiffn. - 4 spp. References * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q17199690 Jungermanniales Liverwort families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marchantiophyta
The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information. It is estimated that there are about 9000 species of liverworts. Some of the more familiar species grow as a flattened leafless thallus, but most species are leafy with a form very much like a flattened moss. Leafy species can be distinguished from the apparently similar mosses on the basis of a number of features, including their single-celled rhizoids. Leafy liverworts also differ from most (but not all) mosses in that their leaves never have a costa (present in many mosses) and may bear marginal cilia (very rare in mosses). Other differences are not universal for all mosses and liverworts, but the occurrence of leaves arranged in three ranks, the presence of deep lobes or segmented leaves, or a lack of clearly diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamesoniella
''Jamesoniella'' is a genus of liverworts in the family Adelanthaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Richard Spruce and Frederick Arnold Lees in London Cat. Brit. Moss. Hepat. ed.2 on page 25 in 1881 and then in Krypt.-Fl. (Rabenhorst) ed. 3, 6: 858 in 1957. The genus name of ''Jamesoniella'' is in honour of William Jameson (1796–1873) was a Scottish-Ecuadorian botanist. Species It contains the following species, as accepted by GBIF; * '' Jamesoniella allionii'' * '' Jamesoniella boliviana'' * '' Jamesoniella convoluta'' * '' Jamesoniella fleischeri'' * '' Jamesoniella fragillima'' * '' Jamesoniella labrifolia'' * '' Jamesoniella latifolia'' * '' Jamesoniella lieboldiana'' * '' Jamesoniella limbata'' * '' Jamesoniella minutissima'' * '' Jamesoniella monodon'' * '' Jamesoniella papillifolia'' * '' Jamesoniella perverrucosa'' * '' Jamesoniella pulchra'' * '' Jamesoniella rehmannii'' * '' Jamesoniella rotundifolia'' * '' Jamesoniella rufescens'' * ''Jame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pteridaceae
Pteridaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales, including some 1150 known species in ca 45 genera (depending on taxonomic opinions), divided over five subfamilies. The family includes four groups of genera that are sometimes recognized as separate families: the adiantoid, cheilanthoid, pteridoid, and hemionitidoid ferns. Relationships among these groups remain unclear, and although some recent genetic analyses of the Pteridales suggest that neither the family Pteridaceae nor the major groups within it are all monophyletic, as yet these analyses are insufficiently comprehensive and robust to provide good support for a revision of the order at the family level. Description Members of Pteridaceae have creeping or erect rhizomes. The leaves are almost always compound and have linear sori that are typically on the margins of the leaves and lack a true indusium, typically being protected by a false indusium formed from the reflexed margin of the leaf. Taxonomy Tradi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamesonia
''Jamesonia'' is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae. It now includes the formerly separate genus ''Eriosorus''. Description Species of ''Jamesonia'' are terrestrial or grow on rocks. They vary considerably in their detailed morphology. The rhizomes are short, dark brown, and creeping, with a more or less dense covering of hairs and bristles. The fertile and infertile fronds are similar. Species show one of two different frond morphologies, related to habitat. These were formerly used to distinguish ''Jamesonia'' and ''Eriosorus'', but do not correspond to the evolutionary history of the species. Species with "''Jamesonia''-type" morphology have many fronds with short, often leathery pinnae, and are associated with exposed habitats. Species with "''Eriosorus''-type" morphology have fewer fronds with longer, thinner pinnae, and are associated with more sheltered areas including cloud forests. The stalks ( petioles and rachises) of the frond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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