Some Collections Deposited in the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, 1960-1969

Abstract

Prior to the 1950's a yearly list of the noteworthy collections received by the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium was included in the Annual of the Director published in the Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin. The practice was discontinued in 1949. In the Annual Report for 1966 and in subsequent reports a few of the accessions for each year were cited. In order to complete the published record for the past decade and to expand the recent abbreviated listings in the Bulletin, the following list of accessions by the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium in the years 1960 through 1969 was compiled. The data were taken primarily from the Herbarium's Index to Collectors, a typewritten list of the names and collecting localities of collectors whose exsiccatae are housed in the Herbarium, and secondarily from the Herbarium exchange and purchase records. In the past the practice has been to include a name in the list of collectors only if a minimum number of specimens (approximately four), or type specimens, were received. This is simply a labor-saving device which avoids the tedious listing of miscellaneous student collections of two specimens sometimes received on exchange. The Herbarium exchange and purchase records, being kept according to institution rather than collector, rarely supplied additional information. In gathering data for the list two criteria were used: (1) collecting dates between 1960 and 1969 and (2) recent entries in the Index to and the Herbarium exchange and purchase records. Some sets of collections made prior to 1960 have only lately been received by the Herbarium; they were identified by the personal recollection of the author, by handwritten entries in the typed collectors lists, or by a note in the exchange records. An inherent problem in the compilation of any listing of collectors is misspelled names and incorrect or missing initials. An attempt was made to check the spellings of surnames and to obtain the correct initials using Index Herbariorum I. The Herbaria of the \W7orld. Ed. 5. (Regnum Veg. 31. 1964), Index Herbariorum II. Collectors A-D (Regnum Veg. 2. 1954) and Part II. Collectors E-H (Regnum Veg. 9. 1957), the American Society of Plant Taxonomists' Index to Current Taxonomic Research, No. 6 (June, 1970, mimeographed), and the membership list of the International Association of Plant Taxonomists (Taxon 17: 749-796. 1968). Pertinent published floras were also consulted. The greatest gap in the present list may be in the area of recent acquisitions of older specimens. Aly knowledge of the collections dates from 1966, and the Index to was retyped in that year. During retyping all of the latelyreceived-but-earlier-collected accessions wvere mingled into the same non-committal