Mr. Langellier is a writer and field botanist in Vermont. In 2009, the botanist Naomi Fraga was hunting a flower without a name near Carson City, Nev. Ms. Fraga saw that the plant was going extinct in ...

DURING recent years many books on botany have been published, specially for the use of students preparing for examinations. In these a few types and phases of plant life have been described somewhat ...

As a student in China in the late 1980s, I spent several wonderful semesters studying zoology and botany. I vividly remember the joy of a summer field trip, immersed in taxonomy and biodiversity, ...