management
herbarium (-ia)
herbarium specimen
plant press
straps or ropes
blotters
corrugates or corrugate ventilators
newssheets or newspaper
field note book for quick notes
bound field book for final notes
digging tool
pruning shears
hand lens
pocket knife
plastic bags
vasculum
fixative and vials
camera and film
altimeter
maps
knap or butt pack
camping equipment
Holmgren plant drying frames
two-burner stoves
field vehicle
field books and data
state, county and exact location
soil, plant association or community, elevation
plant features not always observable on the sheet
endangered species
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended
United States Forest Service (USFS)
United States Park Service (NPS)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Convention on International Trade in Threatened and Endangered Species (CITES)
- Ayensu, E.S. & R.A. DeFilipps (eds.). 1978. Endangered and threatened plants of the United States. Washington, D.C. - information online
- Broome, C.R., J.L. Reveal, A.O. Tucker & N.H. Dill. 1979. Rare and endangered vascular plants of Maryland. Newton Corner. - endangered and threatened plants of the northeastern United States and information on Maryland
- Norden, A.W., D.C. Forester & G.H. Fenwick (eds.). 1984. Threatened and endangered plants and animals of Maryland. Maryland Nat. Herit. Prog. Sp. Publ. 84-I: 1-475.
Luca Ghini at Pisa, Italy Norton-Brown Herbarium (MARY)
- Herbarium News
- Holmgren, P.K., N.H. Holmgren & L.C. Barnett. 1990. Index herbariorum. Part I. The herbaria of the world, ed. 8. Bronx.
permanent repositories of plant specimens
(1) provide a standard reference collection
(2) training of students in systematics
(3) documentation of location data
(4) provide documentation of previous investigations
(a) type specimens
(b) voucher specimens
(c) archives
herbarium management policy
FLORIN
Specimen MAnagement System for California Herbaria (SMASH)
Tracy: An Herbarium Management System
Collection managers online
Herbaria online - a listing of herbaria addresses
herbarium labels
minimum label data include
(1) heading
(2) scientific name and authorship
(3) locality data
(4) habitat data
(5) date of collection
(6) name of collector(s)
(7) primary collector's number
annotation labels
herbarium sheets: 11.5 x 16.5 inches, 100% rag
species folders
genus covers (1 or 2 scored)
arrangements
(1) alphabetical
(2) Dalla Torre and Harms (1900-1907)
(3) Bentham and Hooker (1863-1880)
(4) Cronquist (1981)
summary volumes
- Allaby, M. (ed.). 1992. The concise Oxford dictionary of botany. Oxford.
- Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada. Rev. ed. New York.
- Huxley, A. (ed.) 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 4 vols. London.
- Mabberley, D.J. 1987. The plant-book. Cambridge.
- Stafleu, F.A. & R.S. Cowan. 1976-1988. Taxonomic literature - II. 7 vols. Utrecht.
- -- & E.A. Mennega. 1992-3. Taxonomic literature - Supplement II. 3 vols. to date. Utrecht.
- Willis, J.C. 1973. A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns, 8th ed., revised by H.K. Airy Shaw.
- Index kewensis
- Gray Herbarium Index
- Bolkhovskikh, Z., V. Grif, T. Matvejeva & O. Zakharyena. 1969. Chromosome numbers of flowering plants. Leningrad.
- Bridson, G.D.R. & E.R. Smith. 1991. B-P-H Botanico-periodicum-huntianum/supplementum. Pittsburgh.
- Farr, E.R., J.A. Leussink & F.A. Stafleu. 1979. Index nominum genericorum. 3 vols. Utrecht.
- Goldblatt, P. (ed.). 1981. Index to plant chromosome numbers, 1975-1978.
Monogr. Syst. Bot. 5: 1-553. [Additional volumes for subsequent years continually published in this series - also online.]
- Lawrence, G.H.M., A.F.G. Buchheim, G.S. Daniels & H. Dolezal. 1968. B-P-H Botanico-periodicum-huntianum. Pittsburgh.
- Moore, R.J. (ed.). 1973. Index to plant chromosome numbers, 1967-1971. Regnum Veg. 90: 1-539.
- --. 1974. Index to plant chromosome numbers, 1972. Regnum Veg. 91: 1-108.
- --. 1977. Index to plant chromosome numbers, 1973/1974. Regnum Veg. 96: 1-257.
- Terrell, E.E., S.R. Hill, J.H. Wiersema & W.E. Rice. 1986. A checklist of names for 3,000 vascular plants of economic importance. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 505: 1-241. - available online
International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI), formed in 1991, has as its objectives to promote and prepare a series of integrated computerized databases summarizing the basic taxonomic information of all kinds of plants.
TAXACOM: Taxonomic "chat line"
Plant Taxonomists Online
Index to organism names
Tropicos
herbaria
herbarium cases
compactor units
bugs!
dermestid beetles
control:
(1) heating or freezing
(2) repellents
(3) fumigants
(4) microwave ovens
paradichlorobenzene (PDB)
naphthalene
Dowfume-75
vapona resin strips
loan and exchange of specimens
List of herbaria on the WWW
Arboreta and botanical gardens on the WWW
Botanical societies and organizations on the WWW
Systematic servers