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Description: | Content of collection: Angiospermae, Gymnospermae, Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta.
The Wynne-Edwards North-Eastern American Vascular Plants Collection currently consists of approximately 1400 specimens from 73 families. The majority of the specimens were collected between 1935 and 1945 from the south shore of the Lower St. Lawrence river in Le Bic, Quebec, Canada, and there are approximately 500 species and varieties from this area in the collection. Other specimens were collected in Newfoundland and Labrador. The collection predominantly contains Arctic specimens, but also several typical Canadian mesophytes. A letter written by Wynne-Edwards which accompanies the collection states that, "the genera most fully covered are Carex (with over 150 numbers), Draba and Arabis; and there is a fairly full representation of northern ferns and club-mosses, grasses and orchids". The letter also mentions that most of the Gaspé endemics are included in the collection. Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards worked as Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen from 1946 to 1974. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Contributor: | Acquisition details: Wynne-Edwards donated this collection to the University of Aberdeen Herbarium in 1948. | Identifier: | ABDUH:CLD21 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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