CONTINUING STUDY of botanical collections made in recent years under the auspices of the Fiji Department of Agriculture has indicated the occurrence of various hitherto undescribed species of flowering plants in Fiji. In this paper seven species are described as new, in the genera Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), Melochia and Sterculia (Sterculiaceae), Astronidium (Melastomataceae), and Calycosia, Mastix...

938 Botanical Gardens of Western Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia change chambers. Other PABG laboratories investigate the effects of air pollutants (mainly SO2 and particulates) and the cultivation and use of nonsymbiotic, nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria as soil amendments. The region’s soils are acidic (pH 3.5–5) and of poor agricultural quality, thus requiring large amounts of fertilizer ...

s. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden, 250. Conti E, Litt A, Sytsma KJ. 1996. Circumscription of Myrtales and their relationships to other rosids: evidence from rbcL sequence data. American Journal of Botany 83: 221–233. Contreras VR, Scogin R, Philbrick CT. 1993. A phytochemical study of selected Podostemaceae: systematic implications. Aliso 13: 513–520. Cronquist A. 1981. An integrated syst...

Adam P. Karremans*, Franco Pupulin, David Grimaldi, Kevin K. Beentjes, Roland Butôt, Gregorio E. Fazzi, Karsten Kaspers, Jaco Kruizinga, Peter Roessingh, Erik F. Smets and Barbara Gravendeel Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica, P.O. Box 302-7050 Cartago, Costa Rica, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA, USA – Marie S...

Species extinction is tantamount to loss of chemical diversity, and so it is important to seize all opportunities to study species on the brink of extinction. Such studies are often hampered by the limited material available, but that obstacle is surmountable through collaboration with botanical gardens and advances in instrumentation. The goldenrod Solidago shortii is one example of an endange...

1 Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175, CEFE – Campus CNRS), 1919 Route de Mende, Montpellier 34293, France 2 Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA 3 University of Florida, Department of Biology, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA 4 Organization for Tropical Studies, Duke University, 410 Swift Avenue, Box 90630, Durham, NC 27705, USA 5 Departamento d...

William J. Baker1,*, Maria V. Norup1,2, James J. Clarkson1, Thomas L. P. Couvreur3, John L. Dowe4, Carl E. Lewis5, Jean-Christophe Pintaud6, Vincent Savolainen1,7, Tomas Wilmot1 and Mark W. Chase1 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK, Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, Building 1540, Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, The New York Botanical Garden, 2...

Butterfly gardens are green spaces designed as places where butterflies can feed, mate, and rest. Here, we present some perspectives on the possible use of botanical in natural areas butterfly to promote insect conservation through science dissemination citizen activities. We explored this possibility with a project developed Botanical Garden Gran Sasso Monti della Laga National Park (Italy). f...

1 Species 2000, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, 2333 CR, Th e Netherlands 2 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK; and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 3 Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, USA (address for correspondence: Botany Department, Th e Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chi...