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Arisaema Triphyllum, Jack-In-The-Pulpit, In Minnesota, Especially At The Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Sadao Sakamoto

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott is a member of the Araceae, or Arum family and is distributed widely in temperate regions of North America, from Nova Scotia to Florida, Ontario, Minnesota, Kansas. and Louisiana. Various aspects of this species have been investigated by many botanists since the last decade of the 19th century.

Ecosystem Studies At Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Iii: Water Use Studies, A. N. Bonde, J. D. Ives, D. B. Lawrence

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Previous articles in this series (Lawrence et al. 1957-58, 1960) have dealt with the nature of ecosystems, history of the ecosystem analysis approach, and some of the objectives and the methods that have been used at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Academy of Science. The area, which was acquired in large part through a generous grant from the Fleischmann Foundation, is located in Anoka and Isanti Counties in east central Minnesota. The work has been generously supported by the Hill Family Foundation since the early summer of 1957.

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Fruit And Seed Project Of The Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Frieda L. Wertman, D. B. Lawrence

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The program was initiated with the support of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota in May, 1960 through the interest of Dean T. C. Blegen. There are four major objectives: (1) To establish a collection of ripe fruits and seeds to provide a permanent reference file of the entire seed plant flora of the area newly mapped through a grant from the National Science Foundation. (2) To prepare duplicate sets of standard herbarium mounts of material with ripe disseminules, one set for the laboratory at Cedar Creek, the other for the Herbarium of the Department of Botany of …