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John Torrey and Asa Gray: botanists, friends. Have two adjacent peaks in Colorado named for them.

#MuseumWeek #FriendsMW

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It’s Endangered Species Day (17 May).

Animals are nice and all, but you can read about some plants, algae, and fungi that either need some love, or have been loved too much.

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We are big fans of collecter, Cate Bergman’s work. Masterfully pressed, the flowers of the Sabatia campestris Nutt. maintain their delicate anthers. #nybgherbarium #flowers #pressedplants #handlens (at The New York Botanical Garden)

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I’ve started experimentally taking pictures of tiny things through a hand lens to make up for the fact that I don’t have a fancy camera with tremendous macro capabilities. It’s been interesting to see the results. Here is a wee spider suspended between moss sporophytes.

5-15 at New River Gorge, WV

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The Humata tyermanii Moore is commonly known as White Rabbit’s Foot Fern - named after the plants distinctively fuzzy rhizomes. #nybgherbarium #naturephotochallenge #fern #pressedplants (at The New York Botanical Garden)

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Plant ID for flora of the Wimmera. Workshop delivered by the ANPC October 2013 by Australian Network for Plant Conservation Via Flickr: Learning how to use a hand lens.

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Plant ID for flora of the Wimmera. Workshop delivered by the ANPC October 2013 by Australian Network for Plant Conservation Via Flickr: Isobel Crawford demonstrating how to use a hand lens properly.

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Through the lens by Murray Valley Bushwalkers Via Flickr: Playing with Bill's hand lens the mauve leek orchid or prasophyllum suttonii looked great

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Hand lens look at a Bird's Nest Fungus by Seattle.roamer Via Flickr: There are several lentil-like 'eggs' containing the spores clinging to the side of the right-hand nest and one just on the rim. Kingdom: Fungi Subkingdom: Dikarya Phylum: Basidiomycota Subphylum: Agaricomycotina Class: Agaricomycetes Subclass: Agaricomycetidae Order: Agaricales Family: Nidulariaceae Genus: Crucibulum? Species: ?

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BIOS211 field trip 2007 by Jon Sullivan Via Flickr: Kerry-Jayne Wilson checking the identification of the Tmesipteris in Brownsey, P. J., and Dodsworth, J. C. S. 2000. New Zealand ferns and allied plants. David Bateman Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand. field botany, hand lens Tmesipteris tannensis, fork fern (Plant, Psilotaceae), New Zealand: Endemic a few hundred metres of so along the track up the road entrance to the track. There is a group of plants on a tight corner in the track part way up the slope. Lincoln University BIOS211 field trip Cockayne Nature Trail Kelly's Creek near Otira Arthurs Pass National Park Westland New Zealand

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These cookielike sori are part of the plant, Microsorium. #naturephotochallenge #nybgherbarium #fern #pressedplants (at The New York Botanical Garden)

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a single carnivorous trap of Utricularia gibba, from an herbarium specimen collected in Iowa in the mid 1900s. very, VERY small. MUCH smaller then I expected from what I’ve seen in textbooks

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(via GIPHY)

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Lichen through a hand lens with a macro camera lens.

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