Specimens were collected, pressed and identified by the first author and Melaku Wondafrash, an expert from the National Herbarium (ETH), through visual comparisons with authenticated plant specimens and using taxonomic keys in the volumes of Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea [ 20– 25].
For elevation, we acquired information from floras and specimen records on GBIF (http://www.gbif.org/).
Potted plants have been popular for centuries, and as our thirst for domesticating the wild grew, so did our fascination with exotic flora, brought back as specimens from explorations.
Analysis of intestinal bacterial flora using mouse fecal specimens was outsourced to Techno Suruga Laboratory (Shizuoka, Japan), where the T-RFLP (terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism) method was used.
Junghuhn, who was living in Indonesia and extensively surveyed its fungal flora, discovered the type specimen on Mount Panggerangi on the island Java, at an elevation between 3000-5000 feet.
Herbarium specimens, early floras and explorers' reports indicate that European botanists and explorers were interested in American Oryza taxa as early as in the late 18th century.
A gargle specimen contains flora of the oropharyngeal mucosa, whereas a sputum sample contains flora of the lower airways.
In this context it is important to notice that mPCR does not provide any information on the presence of residential flora in the investigated specimen.
But there's a twist: unlike Blossfeldt's specimens, Voit's flora — a cattail, Oriental poppy buds, fiddlehead ferns — are fake.
The library houses rare English and American literary and historical collections, including a Gutenberg Bible; the art gallery displays Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy and Sir Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie, among other works; and the gardens contain specimens of unusual flora.
