Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
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Hunt Institute Archives Text Discovery Platform

Search a large and growing portion of our online collections, including handwritten documents.
PROTOTYPE

This prototype uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, including a vision-language model (VLM) capable of reading handwritten documents as well as typed and printed text, to create searchable transcriptions of digitized materials in the Hunt Institute Archives. This makes it possible to search the textual contents of individual pages, including material that may not be described in the archival catalog.

Use Keyword search for specific words, names, dates, scientific names, or phrases. Try Semantic search (experimental) to describe a topic, question, or kind of material when you do not know the exact wording used in the documents.

About the AI-generated transcriptions

The transcriptions are generated automatically from page images and may contain errors, especially with difficult handwriting, unusual names, multiple languages, image-quality problems, or complex layouts. They are intended primarily as a discovery aid rather than authoritative transcriptions.

Each result provides the generated transcription and links to the original digitized material and associated archival description so that readings can be checked against the source. The transcription workflow uses AI models run locally by the Hunt Institute.

About Keyword and Semantic search

Keyword search is the default and matches the wording in the transcriptions. Results contain all your terms. Use quotes for an exact phrase. Substring matching is supported, so aceae can find plant-family names ending in -aceae.

Semantic search (experimental) is useful when you know what kind of material you are looking for but do not know the words used in the documents. It ranks transcribed passages by similarity of meaning, so relevant results may not contain the exact words in your query.

Semantic queries can be broad research topics, descriptions of activities or relationships, or natural-language questions. For example:

Semantic search is not a chatbot: a question is used as a search query, and the system returns archival passages that appear conceptually related to it rather than generating an answer or summary. Short descriptions and ordinary research questions generally work better than lists of disconnected keywords. Quotation marks have no special meaning in Semantic mode. Cross-language matching may work in some cases, but it should not be treated as translation.

Keyword and Semantic search are complementary. Keyword search lets you require particular wording; Semantic search can surface differently worded passages about the same subject. Depending on the research question, trying both can reveal different useful material.

Open a result: use the prominent page-and-transcription link to see the metadata, PDF, and full transcription. Keyword-search terms are highlighted in the transcription.

Archives Collections Database (ArchivesSpace): the Collection, Item/Folder, and Digital Object links open the corresponding archival records. Collection-level dates describe the collection as a whole, not necessarily the specific item or page.

If a PDF does not load: on the detail page, use the Digital Object link, click “Go to file” in ArchivesSpace, and navigate to the page number shown here.

Current limitations
  • Automated transcriptions can contain missing or incorrect text or unintended repetition. Difficult handwriting, image quality, unusual layouts, and multiple languages can reduce accuracy. Always consult the original page image when an exact reading matters.
  • Semantic search remains experimental. Its rankings are an additional discovery aid, not a complete or definitive set of relevant results, and highly ranked pages can sometimes be only broadly related.
  • This is an active prototype. Search coverage, transcriptions, functionality, and the interface may continue to change as additional archival material is processed and the system is improved.

Semantic matches for “chromosomes and plant classification”

Showing matches 181–200 among up to the top 200 ranked results.
Semantic results are ranked by similarity of meaning rather than exact wording, so relevant pages may use different language from your query. They are a discovery aid, not an exhaustive list of relevant pages.
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Digital Object: DO #4757 · File: 231_Rogers_Bx5FF7_r
Collection-level dates: 1948–1977
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… ot esculenta. The GRAPH model was our chief method to sort out the complex relationships within a cultivated species. The methods of use, and several suggestions on the intraspecific problems of cultivated plant taxonomy are described in sufficient detail so that workers can fully grasp our concepts. Proc. Int. Symp. Trop. Root Crops (Hawaii). pp. 66-70. This interesting application of the character analysis program indicates that it provides another method of classification, in addition to the power as a character analytic technique. GRAPE 1. Wirth, M., C. F. Estabrook and D. J. Rogers. 1965. A graph theory mode …
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Digital Object: DO #962 · File: 319_Love_Bx1FF7r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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… romosome wheat, T. Timopheevi, has no common name. This species is known only in western Georgia, where it is grown - a few thousand acres. The species is of botanical interest because its second set of 14 chromosomes, designated as set G, is different from that of any other wheat. It is also of great practical interest because it is resistant to virtually all diseases attacking other cultivated wheats, including rusts, smuts, and mildews. In the hands of skilled wheat breeders, it may become the ancestor of improved wheats for the next century. The 42-chromosome wheats, of which there are five, are as a group th …
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Digital Object: DO #4666 · File: 231_Rogers_Bx2FF27_r
Collection-level dates: 1948–1977
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page 3 want to include in an overall comparison of plants to determine their overall similarity. First of all, we have non-inherited variations and which we can think of - progressive individual variation would be a subtitle there. The age of a plant would be one sort of consideration. If we are taking a group of species, we don't want to compare seedlings with mature plants. The characters that we would find in seedlings, the leaves are apt to be a different size for instance. It will not be in flower and we won't have enough information on that. We could however, if we wanted to make a classification that would …
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Item/Folder: F, 1950–1974
Digital Object: DO #5049 · File: 179_Langman_Bx3FF16_r
Collection-level dates: 1919–1980
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[67] Griesebach, A. H. R. 1866. Catalogus plantarum cubensium...... 4 + 301 pp. Lipaise. Hemley, A. S. 1879-88. Biologia centrali-americana......Botany. 4 vol., 110 pl. and map. London. F. 1948. In Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 38: 236-37. 1948. Stinchcock, A. S. 1893. In Rep. No. Bot. Gard. 4: 83. Offmannsegg, J. C. Graf von. 1824. Verzeichnisse der Pflanzenkulturen...... Hoff. Garten zu Dresden...... 310 pp., 1 pl. Dresden. 1826. Nachträge II...... 236 pp. Dresden. 1826. Nachträge III...... 96 pp. Dresden. Hooker, J. D. and B. D. Jackson. 1895. Index Kewensis...... 2 vol. in 4. Oxoni. supplements I - XII. 1900-1957. …
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Digital Object: DO #993 · File: 319_Love_Bx2FF38r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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and on alpine plants from the arctic regions of Atlantic Europe by the American Principal Investigators and Dr. Gunvor Knaben. Although all the Slovenian endemics were under study already this first season, special attention was given the following complexes and taxa, which may serve as examples. a. Iris cengialti Ambr. and I. illyrica Tommas. These are taxa of the eastern Alps and of the coastal mountains of the northern Adriatic. Although morphologically and geographically distinct, these species have been known to cross and give rise to apparently fertile hybrids, and on the basis of morphology some botanists …
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Digital Object: DO #978 · File: 319_Love_Bx2FF23r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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and on alpine plants from the arctic regions of Atlantic Europe by the American Principal Investigators and Dr. Gunvor Knaben. Although all the Slovenian endemics were under study already this first season, special attention was given the following complexes and taxa, which may serve as examples. a. Iris cengialti Ambr. and I. illyrica Tommas. These are taxa of the eastern Alps and of the coastal mountains of the northern Adriatic. Although morphologically and geographically distinct, these species have been known to cross and give rise to apparently fertile hybrids, and on the basis of morphology some botanists …
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Digital Object: DO #2889 · File: AD081_p440-455_methodus_r
Collection-level dates: 1724–1848
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Methodus Calycina. V. COMMUNES: 1 Perianthium simplicissimum. Milleria calice 3 fido Tetragonotheca 4 Chryfogonum - - 5 Melampodium - - 5 Porophyllum - - 5 Tagetes - - - 5 Tarchonanthus - - 7 Othonna - - - 8 2 Perianthium duplicatum. Tragopagon calice 8 & infrà Eriocephalus - - - 10 Rudbeckia - - - 12 Calendula - - - 20 Osteospermum - - 20 Doronicum - - - 20 Bellis - - - 20 Cotula - - - 20 Tussilago - - - 20 Helenia - - - 30 &c. Verbefina - - - 30 &c. Ageratum - - - 30 &c. Andryala - - - 30 &c. 3 Perianthium calyculatum. Prenanth.cal.inter. 5 Lampsana - - - 8 Cichorium - - - 8 Kleinia - - - 8 Hyoferis - - - 10 Ch …
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Item/Folder: "Yugoslavia"
Digital Object: DO #963 · File: 319_Love_Bx1FF8r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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Orchis tridentata Scop. Paonia decora Andr. Plantago major L. Plantago reniformis G.Bech Primula wulfeniana Schott Romulea bulbocodium (L.)Schis Maek. Scabiosa leucophylla Scilla bifolia L. Scilla bifolia L. Serapias vomeracea Briq. (?) Tulipa griesebachiana Pont. (?) Veratrum nigrum L. Veratrum nigrum L. Aristolochia pallida Euphorbia glabriflora Linum austriacum L. Orchis morio L. Ornithogalum gussonei Ton. Ornithogalum divergens Borca Buzet/Croatia/ Štimlje/Kosmet/ Jahorina/Bosnia/ Jahorina/Bosnia/ Turska gora Sv. Dionizije nad Mirno /Croatia/ Jahorina/Bosnia/ Gorjanci Rižana Boštanj na Dolenjskem Titograd/Mon …
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Digital Object: DO #4666 · File: 231_Rogers_Bx2FF27_r
Collection-level dates: 1948–1977
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… t. Other early authors were able to recognize such things as the compositae, these are terms I am sure that are in all of our vocabularies. We know approximately what these are. There are other families of plants recognized by us today which were very early established because of some inherent quality of the organisms. In the case of this particular group, it would certainly be the fruiting structure, this particular group would certainly be the total flowering mechanism that is the inflorescence structure, the inflorescence. We, incidentally, may recognize that in an historical development of things that there a …
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Digital Object: DO #961 · File: 319_Love_Bx1FF6r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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… ry that polyploid series in nature arise by species hybridization and summation of the diploid chromosome sets of the interrelated species. Let us, for example, assume that species I and species II have 14 chromosomes each, but 7 different kinds. The genomes of the two species may be denoted by AA and DD, each letter indicating a set of seven chromosomes. If hybrids are produced, they are AB. Winge assumed that the chromosome number in such species hybrids is sometimes doubled at an early stage of pregnancy in the zygote. This would occur because the chromosome replication would be distributed in such a way that …
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Digital Object: DO #4909 · File: 231_Rogers_Bx8FF40_r
Collection-level dates: 1948–1977
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In Dicotyledoneae, there are about eight families of plants producing the most important vegetable fibers. Three of the most important families were mentioned above: the Linaceae (linen), Malvaceae (cotton) and Moraceae (hemp). The other families produce such products as jute (Tilliaceae), ramie, (Urticaceae), Sunn hemp (Leguminosae), Kapok (Bombacaceae) and floss (Asclepiadaceae). Many other types of vegetable fibers with specialized uses come from other families of dicots, but their products are not included here. One dicot, cotton (Malvaceae, Gossypium spp.), holds the first place in importance in the vegetabl …
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Digital Object: DO #976 · File: 319_Love_Bx1FF21r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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is designed to answer the basic question about what can be found in the wider sense of the word so the plant can be classified and again identified by simple observational methods as inevitably are used by non-specialists and by floristic botanists who do not require more exact information. Though this fundamental approach needs categories as do all kinds of studies, these may be rather arbitrarily chosen and hardly need to be made closely defined. When scientific knowledge advances, so the requirements of exactness the descriptive approach is supplemented by the comparative. This is first focused around the grou …
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Digital Object: DO #976 · File: 319_Love_Bx1FF21r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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… one method has yielded the main cogging answers that it could be expected to provide, then it is time to ask another kind of question by adopting new methods. This is just what has happened in the field of plant taxonomy, where the original approach is inevitably descriptive, because botanists set out to describe as fully and accurately as possible the variety of forms of the phenomena which they exhibit. This approach is designed to answer the basic question about what we, the facts, though it needs categories or divisions of all kinds of studies, these are rather arbitrarily chosen and hardly need to be more cl …
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Digital Object: DO #4183 · File: 182_Goodspeed_Bx1FF21_r
Collection-level dates: 1923–1963
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… critical rather than a perfunctory final identification. I always do this, even with such groups as the grasses, critical Compositae, etc. You will understand, therefore, that just because I have named the plants I have no objections to sending the plants on to specialists for final checking. Please feel perfectly free to pass out named material, of any group, to any botanist you think will be interested in the plants. If they has any suggestions for bettering the naming note it end let me have it for checking. Ill send off a lot of the plant to specialists eventually, but only after all the material is in hand. …
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Digital Object: DO #4777 · File: 231_Rogers_Bx5FF27_r
Collection-level dates: 1948–1977
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4. 5. Taxonomy The nomenclature of many cultivated plants is simply chaotic, mainly because taxonomists cannot be bothered about such everyday plants that have been interfered with by man and are not altogether God's own productions. Information should be provided to show how the wild forms differ from the cultivated forms of the species. Each plant should be listed by its correct Latin name plus synonymy. Keys would be provided as a basis for identification. Identification is often a major problem in dealing with cultivated plants, and for this reason this encyclopedia would, if necessary, have a taxonomic base.
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Digital Object: DO #4219 · File: 182_Goodspeed_Bx3FF59_r
Collection-level dates: 1923–1963
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Trisomic series 26. N. sylvatica (control) 27. Trisomic - Whole plant #1 28. " " " #2 29. Leaves - normal and two trisomic 30. " " normal 2n+1 and 2n+2 (tetrasomic) 31. Double trisomic plant Artificial chromosome doubling via colchicine. (Another hypothesis) 32. Sylvestris haploid and diploid. 33. " " 3n 34. " " 4n-
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Digital Object: DO #4232 · File: 182_Goodspeed_Bx3FF72_r
Collection-level dates: 1923–1963
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… Botanica Co; Groningen: N.V. Erven P. Noordhoff. $ 12.50. Parts I to IV document an interpretation (Part V) of the origins, relationships and evolution of the species of a representative genus of flowering plants based upon detailed evidence accumulated during many years of study of their distribution, morphology and cytogenetics. Present distribution of all species of the genus, mapped and interpreted in the light of the geologic history of the Americas, Antarctica and Australasia, is shown to correlate with other fundamental evidence of their phyletic conclusions. A living collection of fifty-six of the sixty r …
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Digital Object: DO #962 · File: 319_Love_Bx1FF7r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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20. Without hybridization, the chromosome number of grains and cereals can be doubled to form new species with characters somewhat different from their original stock. One such plant, the double-rye, which has 28 instead of 14 chromosomes, has been released for cultivation in Sweden in few years ago, and its quality is somewhat higher than that of ordinary rye. Also in twelve new varieties of barley with doubled chromosomes will be released very soon, and this method of plant breeding has been found to be very promising in several species of cultivated plants. The researches on wheat have given ample demonstratio …
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Digital Object: DO #969 · File: 319_Love_Bx1FF14r
Collection-level dates: 1950–1987
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WIENS, D. and HALLECK, D.K., 1962: Chromosome numbers in Rocky Mountain plants. I. Bot. Not. 115, 455-464. WULFF, E.V., 1943: An introduction to historical plant geography. Waltham, Mass. WULFF, E.V., 1944: Istoricheskaya geografija rasteniy. Moskva, Leningrad. WYNNE-EDWARDS, V.C., 1939: Some factors in the isolation of rare alpine plants. Transact. Roy. Soc. Canada, Ser. 3, 33 (5), 35-42. ZHUKOVA, P.G., 1965: Kariologicheskaya kharakteristika nekotorykh rasteniy Chukotskogo poluostrova. Bot. Zhurn. 50, 1001-1004. ZHUKOVA, P.G., 1965: Kariologicheskaya kharakteristika nekotorykh vidov rasteniy ostrova Vrangel'ja. …
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Digital Object: DO #5019 · File: 179_Langman_Bx1FF25_r
Collection-level dates: 1919–1980
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<transcription> ETE es el indice de otra bibliografia (caribe Asia) gran parte de mi exvice sera muy servigable esta. SUBJECT INDEX—SYSTEMATIC: SEED PLANTS—ANGIOSPERMAE 685 Sinomenium diversifolium: Hemslay, W. B., 1912c—Makino, T., 1937)—Matsuda, S., 1911a. Stephania: Ochiai, E., 1928 (tetrandra, cephalantha)—Yamamoto, Yoshinatou, 1936 (Japan, Formosa). MIMOSACEAE Bentham, G., 1840b (synop.)—1875 (revis). [See also Leguminosae.] MORACEAE Burress, E.: 1873 (monogr.)—Hotta, T., 1936 (Japan)—Satomi, Y., 1931-33 (apodocarps)—Schneider, C. K., 1916c (Wilson's coll.). Artocarpus integerrima: Lacouperie, Terrien de, 18 …
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