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I spent a day tagging along with Barbara's class, learning about the myriad alien plants in the region.
Taken July 3, 2009 at Cox Arboretum in West Carrollton, Ohio using a Kodak Easyshare 10.3 mega pixel camera and edited with Kodak Easyshare software.
Book by Simmonds, Joseph Henry (1845-1936). Published in Auckland, New Zealand, by the Brett Printing and Publishing Company in 1927. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/166317
It had just rained, and I saw this flower covered in rain drops. So of course I had to snap a photo of it.
Taken at a hillside seep just above the Mt. Ashland Ski Area. We were either keying out a lily, a mimulus or an orchid.
Life is so hard sometimes...
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A beach I always hanging around, next to the Sydney airport, a place you can watch the plane take off and down
Seen in a powerline right-of-way by a railroad next to the Century Aggregates Inc. Limestone Quarry in Canaan.
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Title: Illustrations of Indian botany
Creator: Wight, Robert, 1796-1872
Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Publisher: Madras : J.B. Pharoah for the author
Sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
Contributor: Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh
Date: 1840
Language: eng
Description: Desc: Includes hand coloured illustrations Prov: Book-plate of Mr. Craig, Surgeon, Ludgate Lodge, Ratho Note: Robert Wight was born at Milton, East Lothian, and educated at the High School and the University of Edinburgh. In 1819 he entered the service of the East India Company and was stationed at Madras. From there he made an extensive tour of the southern provinces of India, collecting and distributing among botanists a huge number of plants. Although several of his works involved him in considerable financial loss, he described nearly 3,000 species of plants during his entire career of 35 years in India. His desire, he wrote, was "to diffuse as quickly and as extensively as possible a knowledge of Indian plants"
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