by Audrey Clark Inside the eight-foot tall olive-green metal cabinet are stacks of black, sturdy shoeboxes. Inside these are small cardboard boxes decorated with Victorian-style script announcing that they contain the finest buttons and sewing needles. These little boxes hold hundreds of dried mushrooms with brittle, yellowed tags looped around them, labeled in the faded, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pringle Herbarium’
The Shoemaker Taxonomist
Posted in Botany, tagged Audrey, Charles Frost, fungi, History, Pringle Herbarium, Specimens, Taxonomy on March 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Prince of Plant Collectors and the Largest Cactus in the World
Posted in Botany, tagged Audrey, Cactus, Cyrus Pringle, Desert, Plants, Pringle Herbarium on September 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
By Audrey Clark When the Prescott College coastal ecology class for which I was a teaching assistant left the field station on the shores of Kino Bay in early January, the sun shone and the sea was calm. We loaded the students into a couple fiberglass fishing boats and sped off toward the Midriff Islands. [...]
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