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Schizaea pusilla Discovered in Peru

Most American pteridologists are familiar with the rare Curly Grass Fern, Schizaea pusilla Pursh, and are aware that it occurs only in scattered localities in northeastern North America. Thus far it has been found (with luck) in southern New Jersey and Long Island, New York, in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and on the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario (the latter unconfirmed since the original report, possibly erroneous). Yet recently it has been found on a mountainside in Central Peru! Specimens were collected by Dr. Robin Foster, Research Associate at Field Museum: Peru, Dept. Pasco, Oxapampa, Cordillera Yanachaga, Cerro Pajonal, 12 km SE of Oxapampa, 75020'W, 20?35'S, 2700-2800 m, Foster 9065 (F, GH, MO, US, USM); shrubland on white sandstone, spongy sphagnum humus up to 2 m deep except where burned; plant colonizing sandy, wet landslide on steep slope; fertile frond brown, growing with Drosera and dwarf Xyris. When Foster presented specimens to me for identification, I remarked that this looked like a new record for Peru, S. fistulosa Labill. var. australis (Gaud.) Fosb., and set it aside for further study. Later, during research on Schizaea in Peru, it became clear that the specimens were instead S. pusillu: in the size of the plant, in the number, shape and pubescence of the fertile segments, and as to the character of the spores. The latter were examined by Dr. Alice Tryon on a duplicate collection at GH, who explained (pers. comm.) that spores of this species are quite distinctive in size, shape, and dense pitting of the surface. (For further discussion of the distinctive types of spores in Schizaea, see Selling, 1944, and Tryon & Tryon, 1982, pp. 80-82.) The only way the Foster specimens differ from the North American collections is that sterile leaves are not conspicuously curled but are straight to merely flexuous. It is likely that some will consider this single character sufficient basis for specific or infraspecific distinction; however, blade habit can be somewhat variable, even in the Northern plants in which sterile leaves are occasionally flexuous, rarely straight. Actually S. pusilla is not so closely related to the Old World S. fistulosa and its variety australis from Chile and Argentina, which differ in the lack of pubescence on the sporangiophore and in the erose-lacerate margins of the fertile ultimate segments. It has greater affinity to S. incurvata Schkuhr (Surinam to Venezuela, Peru, northern Brazil), especially in the abundance of long, flexuous trichomes on the subentire fertile segment margins and among the sporangia. Schizaea incurvata, however, is a much larger fern, with onceto twice-forked fertile leaves, 2-4 times as many fertile segments, and unpitted spores. The discovery of S. pusilla in Peru prompts interesting speculation as to the true distribution of the species. Should such a disjunction really be so surprising? May we not hypothesize that it is to be found in numerous other localities, throughout the neotropics, for example? One has only to attempt a search for it, even in reported stations in the United States, to discover how difficult it

Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXV. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part V. Southwestern France

Previous articleNext article No AccessRomanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXV. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part V. Southwestern FranceCharles T. Little, David L. Simon, and Leslie BussisCharles T. Little Search for more articles by this author , David L. Simon Search for more articles by this author , and Leslie Bussis Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Gesta Volume 26, Number 11987 Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/767081 Views: 9Total views on this site Copyright 1987 International Center of Medieval ArtPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXVI. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part VI. Auvergne, Burgundy, Central France, Meuse Valley, Germany

Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXVI. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part VI. Auvergne, Burgundy, Central France, Meuse Valley, Germany

Rosen Collection. Early Greek coins from the collection of Jonathan P. Rosen. By N. M. Waggoner. (Ancient coins in North American collections, 5.) New York: American Numismatic Society. 1983. Pp. [iv] + 55, 28 plates. $35.00.

Rosen Collection. Early Greek coins from the collection of Jonathan P. Rosen. By N. M. Waggoner. (Ancient coins in North American collections, 5.) New York: American Numismatic Society. 1983. Pp. [iv] + 55, 28 plates. $35.00.

Catlin’s portrait Of iron Horn:

This paper considers a rather unusual style of Northern Plains Indian decorated shirt which was first illustrated by George Catlin when he visited the Blackfeet Indians at Fort Union in the summer of 1832. Particular attention was drawn to this style when the artist William Fisk showed Catlin himself wearing such a shirt in a portrait executed in London in 1849. The distinguishing feature of such garments is the use of a large rectangular quilled element to decorate the chest and back. The paper puts on record the 11 known extant shirts of this style which have been found in North American and European collections and focuses particular attention on those which appear to have substantial documentation. Additionally, previously unpublished observations by J. C. Ewers on this shirt style derived from his fieldwork amongst the Blackfeet in the 1940s and communicated to the writer some 30 years ago have been utilized. Tentative conclusions assign a Blackfeet origin to such garments.

Cooperative Collection Development:

The author discusses cooperative collection development from an historical perspective and examines some of the projects conceived and implemented during the past forty years. In many cases the projects failed even after years of concentrated effort. However, more important than these failures are new efforts that are being made. The major focus of this article is on both current regional projects and the more broadly based ARL-sponsored North American Collections Inventory Project. The author discusses these efforts and offers some specific judgments regarding the possibility that these projects will lead to a truly successful coordinated collection development project on a national basis.

Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXIV. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part IV: Pyrenees

Previous articleNext article No AccessRomanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXIV. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part IV: PyreneesDavid L. SimonDavid L. Simon Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Gesta Volume 25, Number 21986 Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/766984 Views: 8Total views on this site Copyright 1986 International Center of Medieval ArtPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540–1680, in North American Collections

The following checklist contains references to drawings by artists active in the lands comprised by the Holy Roman Empire, 1540–1680, regardless of their place of birth. All drawings found in North American collections of which the compiler is aware have been included. This census is intended to complement the exhibition and catalogue Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540–1680: A Selection from North American Collections (Princeton, 1982). The choice of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation as a framework for the selection of drawings is explained in “Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540–1680: An Essay Toward Historical Understanding” (ibid., 3–30). An asterisk (*) marks works that were presented in the exhibition, and discussed at length in the accompanying catalogue.

Introduction

This issue of Central European History may at first seem some-what unexpected. All the following papers pertain to the early modern period. All of them moreover originated in connection with an exhibition of works of art, “Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540–1680. A Selection from North American Collections,” its published catalogue, and a symposium, “The Culture of the Holy Roman Empire, 1540–1680,” held on the occasion of the exhibition's opening. The papers published in this issue are accordingly essays in art, literary, intellectual, and, more generally, cultural history; some words may be needed to explain how they come to appear here now.

Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXII. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part II: Italy (1)

Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXII. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part II: Italy (1)

Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXIII. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part III: Italy (2)

Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXIII. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part III: Italy (2)

Clodion at the Frick Collection

Although The Frick Collection in New York City usually displays only works from its permanent holdings, it has since 1972 held periodic loan exhibitions organized around precisely defined themes. An example, on view from June 2 through September 30, 1984, was devoted to terra-cotta statuettes by Clodion, all drawn from North American collections. It was organized by Anne L. Poulet, Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who also wrote the catalogue.

Chromosome inversion polymorphisms in Drosophila melanogaster III. Gametic disequilibria and the contributions of inversion clines to the Adh and Gpdh clines in Australasia

Gametes from each of 19 Australasian collections of Drosophila melanogaster were characterised for polymorphic Adh and Gpdh allozyme loci and the two chromosome-2 common cosmopolitan inversions In(2L)t and In(2R)NS.-No consistent gametic disequilibria for the loosely linked combinations of Adh-Gpdh and Adh-In(2R)NS were found over the 19 collections. However, strong and consistent gametic disequilibria were found for the tightly linked combinations of Adh-In(2L)t and Gpdh-In(2L)t. The results for each of these four combinations agree with those previously reported for Northern-Hemisphere collections. -Notwithstanding its parallel latitudinal cline and consistent gametic disequilibrium with Adh, In(2L)t was found to account for only a small fraction of the Adh latitudinal cline in Australasia. This is consistent with the previous finding that the North American Adh latitudinal cline also exists largely independently of In(2L)t. However, In(2L)t accounts for all of the Australasian Gpdh latitudinal cline and so contrasts the finding from North American collections where the corresponding Gpdh cline exists largely independently of In(2L)t.

Bolognese Drawings at the National Gallery. Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800. An exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 10 September – 8 November 1981

Bolognese Drawings at the National Gallery. Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800. An exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 10 September – 8 November 1981

Past and Present Record of Drepanocladus crassicostatus sp. nov. (Musci: Amblystegiaceae) and the Status of D. trichophyllus in North America

Drepanocladus crassicostatus Janssens is described as new from North American collections of living populations and from fossils of Pleistocene and Holocene age. The species is compared with D. capillifolius (Warnst.) Warnst., D. exannulatus var. rotae (De not.) Loeske, D. exannulatus var. purpurascens (Schimp.) Herz. and D. trichophyllus (Warnst.) Podp. Drepanocladus crassicos- tatus is differentiated from these mosses by less well-developed groups of alar cells, a strong, wide costa, and the absence of brush-like branch tips. It is known only from western North America and occurs in more minerotrophic habitats than D. trichophyllus. Evidence for the occurrence of D. trichophyllus in North America is a single collection. Many late Tertiary and Quaternary sediments in glaciated and periglacial areas of North America are particularly rich in bryophyte remains. Fragments of mosses can be extracted from fluviatile, deltaic, and lacustrine sediments, in addition to peats. The specimens are not substantially altered by diagenetic processes and most can be handled by the same techniques as are used with specimens of living bryophyte populations. Late Cenozoic bryophytes in North America can all be referred to extant moss taxa, and the distinct microscopic features of the leaves make it possible to identify most frag- ments to species level. Miller (1980) listed 725 records in his catalogue of Quaternary fossil bryophytes of North America. In addition, approximately one thousand bryophyte records from Pleistocene and Holocene sediments have been accumulated in the course of my work on Alaskan, Yukon, and other sediments from the Arctic Archipelago and on Min-

Spanish Painting of the Late Baroque

The exhibition Painting in Spain 1650–1700 from North American Collections is unique in that it is limited primarily to painters of the second half of the seventeenth century. Except for Murillo, they are not widely known to a public of non-specialists. Nevertheless, the paintings exhibited are of high quality, establishing new frontiers for the understanding of Spanish painting among the general public. The greatest names—El Greco (1541–1614), Velazquez (1599–1660), and Goya (1746–1828)—are not there, as the title of the exhibition makes abundantly clear.

Two Monuments of New Kingdom Date in North American Collections

Two Monuments of New Kingdom Date in North American Collections

Two Monuments of New Kingdom Date in North American Collections

Two Monuments of New Kingdom Date in North American Collections

<i>Incunabula in American Libraries: a Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections</i>

<i>Incunabula in American Libraries: a Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections</i>

Reviews

Journal Article Reviews Get access FREDERICK RICHMOND GOFF, Incunabula in American libraries: a supplement to the third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections (1964). New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1972. Pp. xii+104. $10.00. K. W. HUMPHREYS K. W. HUMPHREYS Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s5-XXX, Issue 2, June 1975, Pages 140–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s5-XXX.2.140 Published: 01 June 1975