New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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A Plea for the Collection of Common Plants

Peter H. Raven* and Tamra Engelhorn

Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.

Abstract From July 1969 to April 1970 we lived in New Zealand studying the native and naturalised species of Epilobium and Fuchsia. Our work was made possible by an N.R.A.C. Senior Research Fellowship at Botany Division, DSIR, which allowed travel through both the North and South Islands, the cultivation of over 450 strains of Epilobium side-by-side in the experimental garden, and the assembling and comparative study of several thousand herbarium specimens of Epilobium at Lincoln. Many people were extremely generous in providing help of various kinds for our work,

Received 11 May 1970 New Zealand Journal of Botany 9: 217-22.

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