Gesneriad Reference Web, new content
Anthony R. Brach (brach@oeb.harvard.edu)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:32:47 -0500
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>Subject: Gesneriad Reference Web, new content
>Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 23:36:15 -0500
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>Hi folks,
>
>I have just posted a bunch of new content on the GRW. Most of it flows from
>my recent trip to Britain, and includes many photos of Streptocarpus hybrids
>from Chris Rose and from Dibley's Nurseries, as well as photos of a variety
>of gesneriads from the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.
>
>In addition, I have produced two new "Tours", one for the Strep images, and
>one of the RBGE -- these are probably the most efficient way of viewing most
>of the new material, as the images are somewhat smaller and they are
>efficiently available to the browser -- however, the "Tour" and "Article"
>pages do require a browser that can support frames. If yours doesn't,
>navigate to the "Gesneriad Articles" page, and there are alternate links to
>the article and tour text that do not require frames.
>
>Other new material includes remarkable new Chirita species from Toshijiro
>Okuto, not previously seen, I believe, in North America. Look in particular
>for C. briggsioides, C. speciosa, and C. sinensis var latifolia. There are
>also new photos from Ruth Zaitlin, including some sent to me as Nematanthus
>sp. 'Santa Teresa' -- Alain Chautems advises me that he intends to publish
>this species as N. albus, and I have listed it as that.
>
>The website address, as most of you know is http://www.pathcom.com/~rmyhr/.
>
>I have tried to review the material, but it is not possible to look at every
>nook and cranny. I rely on the good folk of the gesneriphiles list to
>ferret out problems and let me know, so that I can fix them. Thanks to you
>all!
>
>Ron Myhr
>"The exact limits of the higher taxa
>are arbitrary. The species themselves,
>the atomic units, are natural -- more
>or less. . . But the limits of genera,
>families, and still higher taxa, those
>lines drawn around clusters of species,
>are arbitrary."
>(E. O. Wilson)
>
>