on 6/27/05 1:18 PM, Guido wrote: > Viateur > > Why don't you list the story about the Kew people herbarising 17 of 18 plants > of Cypripedium calceolus at the only Cypripedium cite in England! (Well I > guess you could say that they moved to site to Kew). > > regards > Guido
There are some good examples of 'herbarising extinction' in New York State. While viewing records of specimens collected for various herbariums during the early and mid- 1900's, I became painfully aware that several species of terrestrial orchids that had made headway into Central and the general Upstate NY area from points West, North and South, had been collected at several locations year after year until they no longer existed in those areas, extinct in the state or were in extremely small numbers and usually only found on Long Island. Everybody wanted to have a specimen, including institutions not in the state, and the plants just couldn't reproduce fast enough. Not that bad nowadays, just the backyard shovellers that have to be diverted somehow. charles plants jumping up and flowering quickly in this heat -- Charles Ufford Oriskany, NY USA IPA, Central NY and Southern Tier Orchid Societies Http://www.paphiopedilum.net Http://www.geocities.com/charlesufford _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
