As the garden's first director, Britton initiated a program of botanical exploration that continues today, with studies being conducted in South America, especially the rainforests of the Atlantic Coast of Brazil and of the foothills of the Andes Mountains, and occasionally in other continents.
The first known botanical collection of B. lemanniana was made by James Drummond in early 1847, during a voyage of botanical exploration through the Stirling Ranges to Cape Riche, in company with George Maxwell.
A storm overtakes the Ibis, along with the Anahita, an opium carrier out of Bombay owned by Bahram, a Parsi merchant, and the Redruth, outfitted by a Cornish plantsman for botanical exploration.
The Smallest Kingdom is an illustrated account of the botanical exploration of South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom and the plants that this region has given to the gardens of the world over the last four centuries.
From the subtitle of the book, Stories of Botanical Exploration, you might expect a collection of anecdotes - and there are plenty of anecdotes to be told about plant hunters, who were great obsessives and who suffered greatly for their calling.
It is more like an overview of the whole history of botanical exploration and its intersection with the age of the great global empires, with a few anecdotes thrown in.
She and Banks were, she realized, engaged in the same pursuit: botanical exploration.
February 1, 10-11 30 a.m. during the Gallery Talk: Joseph Banks and the Golden Age of Botanical Exploration.
And western Colombia, where we are, is regarded as one of the most exciting frontiers for botanical exploration in the New World tropics.
In the new study, Dr. DeCandido and a co-author, Adrianna Muir, an intern at the City Parks Department, were able to draw on the rich records of botanical exploration of the city.
