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Bryophytes Of Spy Rock Hollow, Eugene B. Wittlake Jan 1950

Bryophytes Of Spy Rock Hollow, Eugene B. Wittlake

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


New Genera And Species Of Millipeds, Nell B. Causey Jan 1950

New Genera And Species Of Millipeds, Nell B. Causey

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Botanical Records Of Field Work In The Southern United States In 1945 And 1947, Rogers Mcvaugh Oct 1949

Botanical Records Of Field Work In The Southern United States In 1945 And 1947, Rogers Mcvaugh

Field and Laboratory

For about three months in 1945, and for a similar period in 1947, I was able to carry on field-work in systematic botany in the southern United States, chiefly in Texas, but with some attention to neighboring states. The work in 1945 was a joint project of Southern Methodist University and the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; I was delegated by the Bureau to join field-parties sent out by the University. The work in 1947 was undertaken by the University of Michigan, with the cooperation of Southern Methodist University and of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University.


[Note On Cassia Orcuttii], B. L. Turner Oct 1949

[Note On Cassia Orcuttii], B. L. Turner

Field and Laboratory

CASSIA Orcuttii (Britton & Rose) Turner, comb. nov.


Transfer Of Texas Species Of Houstonia To Hedyotis (Rubiaceae), Lloyd H. Shinners Oct 1949

Transfer Of Texas Species Of Houstonia To Hedyotis (Rubiaceae), Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

The accepted species of Houstonia in Texas are a diverse lot, ranging from stiffly branched small shrubs of desert mountains to delicate spring annuals of humid pine and hardwood forests.


Notes On Texas Compositae-Iii, Lloyd H. Shinners Oct 1949

Notes On Texas Compositae-Iii, Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

No abstract provided.


Revision Of Salvia L., Section Salviastrum Gray, Eula Whitehouse Oct 1949

Revision Of Salvia L., Section Salviastrum Gray, Eula Whitehouse

Field and Laboratory

Salviastrum, with S. texanum Scheele as the only known representative, was described as a genus by Scheele in 1849 (Linnaea 22: 584).


The Texas Species Of Conyza (Compositae), Lloyd H. Shinners Oct 1949

The Texas Species Of Conyza (Compositae), Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

The transfer of those species of Erigeron sometimes segregated under Leptilon to the widespread tropical genus Conyza by Dr. Arthur Cronquist (1943) brings together five annual weeds of Texas which are obviously closely allied. They may be distinguished by the following key. Specimens mentioned in the discussion are in the Herbarium of Southern Methodist University.


Nomenclature Of Texas Varieties Of Descurainia Pinnata (Cruciferae), Lloyd H. Shinners Oct 1949

Nomenclature Of Texas Varieties Of Descurainia Pinnata (Cruciferae), Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

In LeRoy E. Detling's Revision of the North American species of Descurainia (Amer. Midi. Nat. 22: 481-520, 1939), the barely distinguishable races of D. pinnata are termed subspecies. The following are credited to Texas, listed here with the proper name as variety. Since a proposal to make mandatory the repetition of the specific epithet for the typical variety of a species has been approved by members of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and by a preliminary symposium at Utrecht considering proposals to be submitted to the next International Botanical Congress (see Brittonia 7: 16-17, 1949), no name is proposed …


A Key To The Snakes Of Dallas County, Texas, Lawrence Curtis Oct 1949

A Key To The Snakes Of Dallas County, Texas, Lawrence Curtis

Field and Laboratory

This Key has been prepared as a means of identifying the twenty-nine species and subspecies of snakes definitely recorded from Dallas County, Texas. A previous publication (Curtis, 1949) contains the present-known county distribution, bionomics, and other information of forms here listed.


Fusion 0f Internal Carotid Arteries In The Dogfish, Squalus Acanthias, Joseph P. Harris Jr. Jun 1949

Fusion 0f Internal Carotid Arteries In The Dogfish, Squalus Acanthias, Joseph P. Harris Jr.

Field and Laboratory

No abstract provided.


Notes On Some Tropical American Skippers (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera, Hesperiidae), H. A. Freeman Jun 1949

Notes On Some Tropical American Skippers (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera, Hesperiidae), H. A. Freeman

Field and Laboratory

We lack accurate data on the distribution of tropical butterflies in the United States, and even in Mexico and Central America. Several factors contribute to this condition.


Transfer Of Texas Species Of Petalostemum To Dalea (Leguminosae), Lloyd H. Shinners Jun 1949

Transfer Of Texas Species Of Petalostemum To Dalea (Leguminosae), Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

No abstract provided.


The Genus Dalea (Including Petalostemum) In North-Central Texas, Lloyd H. Shinners Jun 1949

The Genus Dalea (Including Petalostemum) In North-Central Texas, Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

The following account relates only to those species definitely known to grow within one or more of the 13 counties surrounding Dallas and Fort Worth.


Notes On Winter Feeding Habits Of North Texas Bobwhites, Fred H. Wagner Jun 1949

Notes On Winter Feeding Habits Of North Texas Bobwhites, Fred H. Wagner

Field and Laboratory

From the viewpoint of the field biologist, Dallas is advantageously situated; for within a radius of less than a hundred miles one may reach six different principal soil types, each the result primarily of its underlying geological formation…. The problem of which this paper is the partial result, was an attempt to note differences or similarities in the feeding habits of bobwhites in these different regions (as affected by the soils through plant relationships.)


William D. Moore (1824-96), Amateur Geologist Of Mississippi, S. W. Geiser Jun 1949

William D. Moore (1824-96), Amateur Geologist Of Mississippi, S. W. Geiser

Field and Laboratory

It is now nearly ninety years since William D. Moore, then professor of English at the University of Mississippi, collaborated with Eugene W. Hilgard on his famous geological report of that State. The archivists and historians have lost Moore from their records (if, indeed, they ever sought seriously for information of him), so that what was written five years ago of W. D. Moore (in another connection) remains as true as it was then: "No record of whence he came, or whither went (when the University closed in 1861), is to be found at the Univer­sity." Since the present writer …


The Disappearance Of Plant Species From The Range In Texas, V. L. Cory Jun 1949

The Disappearance Of Plant Species From The Range In Texas, V. L. Cory

Field and Laboratory

My study of the range began in 1923. Since then, under conditions of continuous (and often excessive) grazing, I have observed that certain palatable species of range plants have disappeared, and others have been severely reduced in abundance. Doubtless other species vanished before 1923, when I began my observations.


Notes [On Arenaria, Delphinium, And Asclepias], Lloyd H. Shinners Jun 1949

Notes [On Arenaria, Delphinium, And Asclepias], Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

ARENARIA Drummondii Shinners, nom. nov. DELPHINIUM VIRESCENS Nutt. var. Wootoni (Rydb.) Shinners, comb. nov. ASCLEPIAS TUBER0SA L. var. interior (Woodson) Shinners, comb. nov.


A New Elasmosaur From The Eagle Ford Shale Of Texas: Systematic Description, S. P. Welles May 1949

A New Elasmosaur From The Eagle Ford Shale Of Texas: Systematic Description, S. P. Welles

Fondren Science Series

The elasmosaurs were marine reptiles, plesiosaurs with extremely long necks and proportionately very small heads. The larger individuals of the Upper Cretaceous attained a length of forty feet, with necks over twenty feet long. Their limbs were so highly modified into paddles that progress on land must have been extremely difficult, if not impossible. Their long sharp teeth indicate a fish-eating habit, and this has been confirmed by the fossilized stomach contents. The fish were evidently gulped down whole and ground up in a gizzard-like organ which contained stomach stones.


Winter Damage And Seed Source Of Planted Pines In Northern Minnesota, Paul O. Rudolf Apr 1949

Winter Damage And Seed Source Of Planted Pines In Northern Minnesota, Paul O. Rudolf

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Abstract Paper Apr 1949

Abstract Paper

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Biology Majors, Mary M. Keeffe Apr 1949

The Future Of Biology Majors, Mary M. Keeffe

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Application Of Schuepp's Method To Form Analysis Of The Shoot Apex In Maize, Otto L. Stein, Ernst C. Abbe Apr 1949

Application Of Schuepp's Method To Form Analysis Of The Shoot Apex In Maize, Otto L. Stein, Ernst C. Abbe

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


On Some Grasses, Chiefly Of The Edwards Plateau Of Texas, V. L. Cory Apr 1949

On Some Grasses, Chiefly Of The Edwards Plateau Of Texas, V. L. Cory

Field and Laboratory

In 1885 the condition of my father's health obliged our family to move to a drier climate and a higher altitude. In so doing, we followed the pioneers closely enough to witness the transformation of a prairie country into a Great Plains empire devoted to the growth of a grass called wheat. Among my earliest remembrances is that of a sea of other tall grasses, principally the little blue stem.


New Names Of Texas Chamaesyces, Lloyd H. Shinners Apr 1949

New Names Of Texas Chamaesyces, Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

No abstract provided.


Note On The "Leopoldina," Or "The Imperial German Academy Of Naturalists At Halle", S. W. Geiser Apr 1949

Note On The "Leopoldina," Or "The Imperial German Academy Of Naturalists At Halle", S. W. Geiser

Field and Laboratory

Recently, a professor of entomology sent an urgent letter of inquiry relative to the association of German naturalists called, in the older writings, the "Leopoldina," or, more fully, the "Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum." He had read an account of Jacob Boll, early Texan naturalist, and therein had noted his election (March 1, 1873) to membership in the society. The article stated that, in 1873, the Academy had its seat at Dresden, where its Praeses, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach had been for many years professor of natural history, and director of the natural history museum. It also stated, mistakenly, that …


Taxonomic Status Of Bulimulus (Mollusca, Gastropoda) In Texas, Clarence Hall, Leslie Pittman Apr 1949

Taxonomic Status Of Bulimulus (Mollusca, Gastropoda) In Texas, Clarence Hall, Leslie Pittman

Field and Laboratory

Careful study of an extended series of the Prairie Snail, Bulimulus, in the Southe1rn Methodist University Collection, reveals so much intergradation between some of the sub­ specific forms that identification is nearly impossible. We have presented below some of our observations, and the conclusions derived from our study. We hope that they will aid in clarification of the taxonomic position of several questionable subspecies of Bulimulus.


Notes On Texas Compositae-Ii, Lloyd H. Shinners Apr 1949

Notes On Texas Compositae-Ii, Lloyd H. Shinners

Field and Laboratory

No abstract provided.


A New Texan Form Of Castilleja Indivisa Engelm., V. L. Cory Apr 1949

A New Texan Form Of Castilleja Indivisa Engelm., V. L. Cory

Field and Laboratory

On March 28, 1948, while traveling from Sinton to Refugio, I encountered a profusion of the Castilleja which, in its area of distribution, is characterized by large bright­red bracts. At a mile northeast of Sinton, in San Patricio County, our collection, No. 54157, was made.


Monarda, Punctata L. Var. Maritima Cory, Var. Nov., V. L. Cory Apr 1949

Monarda, Punctata L. Var. Maritima Cory, Var. Nov., V. L. Cory

Field and Laboratory

No abstract provided.