{"title":"Plants in the Civil War","authors":"Brit Press","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1306","url":null,"abstract":"From the publisher. Slavery was at the heart of the South’s agrarian economy before and during the Civil War.Agriculture provided products essential to the war effort, from dietary rations to antimalarial drugs to rawmaterials for military uniforms and engineering. Drawing on a range of primary sources, this history examinesthe botany and ethnobotany of America’s defining conflict. The author describes the diverse roles of cashcrops, herbal medicine, subsistence agriculture and the diet and cookery of enslaved people.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42790631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Noteworthy new angiosperm plant distribution records for New Mexico and Colorado, U.S.A.","authors":"Z. S. Rogers, S. Fuentes-Soriano, R. Spellenberg","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1299","url":null,"abstract":"Eleven angiosperm plant species are added to the flora of New Mexico that were revealed through herbarium curation associated with a project to digitize and unify the two herbaria of New Mexico State University (NMC & NMCR) and through ongoing field work. One, Dimorphocarpa candicans, is restored to the state’s flora, after it was earlier placed into synonymy with D. wislizeni, a close but morphologically distinct relative. The current IUCN Redlist conservation status of endangered (EN) for Gossypium thurberi should be revisited given its newly discovered range extension into southwestern New Mexico. New county-level distribution records are provided for a total of 16 taxa. Crepis tectorum, one of the species added to the flora of New Mexico, is likewise documented for Colorado, where it occurs in three counties. All of the plants added to the floras pertain to species that are either native or introduced with the potential to spread and become naturalized in the landscape. A putative introgressive population is also reported for New Mexico between Quercus turbinella and Q. laceyi, the latter otherwise unknown in the state. For all new records, full citations of specimen vouchers are provided to document the extended distributional ranges.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46934422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"San Bruno Mountain: A Guide to the Flora and Fauna","authors":"Brit Press","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1309","url":null,"abstract":"From the Publisher: San Bruno Mountain, located in the center of the San Francisco Bay Area, is a four-squaremileglobal treasure—a natural preserve touted by biologist E. O. Wilson as one of the world’s rare biodiversityhot spots. Bathed in fog and wind and preserved from destruction by the fierce work of localconservationists, this mountain offers visitors a glimpse of what San Francisco looked like before colonization.Drawing on years of visits, observations, and research to offer a comprehensive flora of San BrunoMountain and its endangered species, conservationists Doug Allshouse and David L. Nelson help us understandthis unique and precious place from the point of view of the plants in this one-of-a-kind field guide.Detailing a total of 528 plant species (among them 316 natives), the authors also delve into the history of thisliving, changing habitat at the southern edge of San Francisco. The birds, butterflies, reptiles, geology, climate,dynamic changes, and political history of the preserve also feature in San Bruno Mountain. Even locals whohave enjoyed hiking and viewing the mountain for years will be astonished at this book’s revelations about thediversity and importance of this wild place.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41877521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agrostis swalalahos (Poaceae), a grass endemic to the mountains of northwest Oregon, U.S.A.","authors":"Nick Otting, B. L. Wilson","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1287","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a new grass species, Agrostis swalalahos, endemic to several peaks in the northwestern Coast Range of Clatsop County, Oregon, U.S.A.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68161038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Botany of Beer: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing","authors":"Barney L. Lipscomb","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1307","url":null,"abstract":"From the Publisher: This book is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated compendium of the characteristics and propertiesof the plants used in making beer around the world. The botanical expert Giuseppe Caruso presents scientificallyrigorous descriptions, accompanied by his own hand-drawn ink images, of more than 500 species. For each one, he givesthe scientific classification, common names, and information about morphology, geographical distribution and habitat,and cultivation range. Caruso provides detailed information about each plant’s applications in beer making, includingwhich of its parts are employed, as well as its chemical composition, its potential toxicity, and examples of beers and stylesin which it is typically used. The book also considers historical uses, aiding brewers who seek to rediscover ancient andearly modern concoctions.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43559694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s","authors":"Brit Press","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1314","url":null,"abstract":"From the Publisher: Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, TheForest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, and featuringboth real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisansliving and working in a world still made largely of wood. Some of the historical characters—such as ThomasCole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nat Turner—are wellknown,while others are not. But all are creators of private and grand designs. The Forest unfolds in brief stories. Each episode reveals an intricate lost world. Characters cross paths orgo their own ways, each striving for something different but together forming a pattern of life. For AlexanderNemerov, the forest is a description of American society, the dense and discontinuous woods of nation, thefoliating thoughts of different people, each with their separate shade and sun. Through vivid descriptions ofthe people, sights, smells, and sounds of Jacksonian America, illustrated with paintings, prints, and photographs,The Forest brings American history to life on a human scale.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42154506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preliminary vegetational changes in frequently burned and unburned upland pine-hardwood forests at Cook’s Branch Conservancy in Montgomery County, Texas, U.S.A.","authors":"E. Keith, Jesse Blum, Sarah Mitchell","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1300","url":null,"abstract":"Vegetational changes over a 6-year period (2012 to 2017) were recorded in upland pine – hardwood forests on Cook’s Branch Conservancy (CBC) in Montgomery County, Texas, using permanent vegetation monitoring plots as a basis for following future vegetational changes. Cook’s Branch Conservancy is a 2,160-hectare preserve purchased by George and Cynthia Mitchell in 1964 and is now part of a conservation program operated by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation. Plots sampled for this study include eight Fire Monitoring Handbook vegetation plots located in upland forests over sandy soils including four plots located in frequently burned stands (11 times since 2002) and four plots located in stands that have not been burned in decades (20+ years). Data collected confirm significant changes to vegetational structure in frequently burned forests compared to similar habitats that are unburned. Prior to initiation of prescribed burning in 2001, habitat conditions and species composition was similar in stands surrounding all eight plots sampled. The overstory tree structure of all eight plots sampled is similar in basal area, canopy cover, and in species composition. The number of midstory trees is less in frequently burned plots, however, frequently burned plots possess a much greater number of seedlings. At the shrub level, Callicarpa americana and Ilex vomitoria represented 97.7% of total stems in the frequently burned plots, with Callicarpa americana stems count increasing in frequently burned plots, suggesting the species is pyrophytic. Additionally, diversity of herbaceous species was higher in frequently burned plots vs unburned plots. Visually, the frequently burned forest is open in the understory, while the unburned forest is dense with woody understory vegetation making it difficult to traverse on foot.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44557993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plants of the Pineywoods of East Texas & West Louisiana. Part 1:","authors":"Brit Press","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1318","url":null,"abstract":"From the publisher: Plants of the Pineywoods of East Texas & West Louisiana. Part 1 is a one volume reference work covering the herbaceous (non-woody vascular (not mosses or liverworts) Eudicotyledon (largest of flowering plant groups) along with the herbaceous Magnoliids & waterlilies (Nymphaeiids) of the Pineywoods of East Texas and west Louisiana. Filling a major gap in earlier treatments, it marks the first time there has been comprehensive coverage of the entire flora for this region in a local manual. The book also includes illustrated glossary with over 350 terms. The illustrator spent six years and over 30,000 hours on theillustrations.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":"66 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41259961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agaricus L. from European Mediterranean Countries","authors":"H. Keller","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1305","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Agaricus is subdivided into 18 sections and four subsections. This group of fungi are represented by thehighly prized edible and commercially grown Agaricus campestris described and illustrated on pages 233–237 with highlightedforemost synonyms, etymology, descriptions, notes, and habit photographs included for about 97 species andsubspecies. Each species has 4 to 10 color photographs with species morphological descriptions featuring the pileus (cap),stipe, context, and microscopy. Habitat and collections give where the species can be found.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41471048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solomon Described Plants: A Botanical Guide to Plant Life in the Bible","authors":"Barney L. Lipscomb","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1317","url":null,"abstract":"From the publisher: This is a treatment of the plants mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, their uses, ecology, history, beauty, and symbolism. The book includes more than three hundred original photographs by the author from field and ethnobotanical studies over the past four decades. Special attention has been paid to plants that have been misunderstood in previous treatments. Recent advances in analytical techniques in archaeobotany, including sophisticated chemical and genomic methods, have helped elucidate the identity of problematic Bible plants. Also included is a review of recent literature on the plants. The volume will be aninvaluable resource to students of the Bible, theologians, botanists, and translators.","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44974710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}