(2804) Ephedra major Host, Fl. Austriac. 2: 671. 1831 [Gymnosp.: Ephedr.], nom. utique rej. prop. Typus: non designatus. The name Host (Fl. 1831) is currently applied by several authors to a mostly Mediterranean taxon (e.g., Widder in Phyton (Horn) 1: 71–75. 1948; Maire, Afrique N. 10–11. 1952; Coode & Cullen Davis, Turkey 85. 1965; Blečić Horvatić, Analitička Jugoslavije: 178–179. 1967; Riedl ...

(2822) Cachrys libanotis L., Sp. Pl.: 246. 1 Mai 1753 [Angiosp.: Umbell.], nom. cons. prop. Typus: Italy, Sicily, Trapani, pr. Érice, 30 2000, Güemes & al. JGH-3097 (VAL barcode VAL 119667!; isotypus: SALA 106653!), typ. The present proposal deals with the situation surrounding name L. (Sp. 1753) (Umbelliferae), which has been long used for a European species in sense not including its type. is...

Increasing complexity of innovative products as well as growing requirements on quality and reliability call for more detailed knowledge about internal structures of manufactured components rather by 100 % inspection than just by sampling test. A first-step solution, like radioscopic inline inspection machines, equipped with automated data evaluation software, have become state of the art in th...

Cytinus is a group of plants that grow within other plants: parasitic life cycle has evolved just four times in the plant kingdom. species are externally invisible for most their life, emerging from hosts only to flower and set seed. Owing this cryptic cycle, genus poorly understood likely include several hitherto undescribed species, particularly threatened forest habitat Madagascar. At time u...

X-ray absorption spectroscopic studies of cation environments in oxide glasses are selectively reviewed. New results are presented on K and Yb environments in silicate glasses and on Fe in silicate melts at temperatures up to 1173 " K. INTRODUCTION Recent investigations of oxide glasses and crystalline model compounds by x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS and the acronyms EXAFS for extended fin...

Emotional experiences of music are notably difficult to describe and have resisted philosophical and psychological as well as vernacular explanation. This essay uses a new departure by taking an ethological approach to questions of musical experience—i.e., treating music as a behavior that evolved in ancestral humans because it contributed to their survival and reproductive success. In particul...