London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited

London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited was an electricity supply company that operated in central and west London from 1935 to 1948. It was founded to acquire, combine and coordinate the electricity distribution interests of six west London electricity companies.
History.
The London Power Company was established in 1925 by ten London electricity undertakings to centralise the generation of electricity at Battersea Power Station. The constituent companies continued as electricity distribution and sales undertakings.
In 1934 six electricity supply companies in west and central London wished to bring together in one organisation the distribution resources of their constituent companies. This was to standardise and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of electricity supplies in a single organisation. The six constituent companies were the:
The London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited was registered as a public company in February 1935. This was under the provisions of the "London Electricity (No. 2) Act 1925". The undertaking's declared policy was:
The administrative mechanism to achieve integration was for the Charing Cross Electricity Supply Company to take over the other five companies and to change its name to Central London Electricity Limited. With effect from 1 January 1937 the whole of the shares of Central London Electricity Limited were held by the non-statutory body London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited. Compensation to directors of the constituent companies was set at three years gross fees for loss of office.
The company was able to standardise electricity supplies (240 V, 50 Hz AC) in the combined area and reduced costs significantly. However, the company was unable to attract further companies to the merger.
The war years (1939–45) were difficult for the company. The sale of electricity fell by 30 per cent; the number of consumers fell by 39 per cent and the electrical load by 37.5 per cent. Tariffs had to be increased in 1940 and 1943. The amount of war damage was estimated to be £600,000, with bulk supply sub-stations damaged on 55 occasions and 139 transformer chambers and 1,424 cables were damaged. Recovery began in 1944 with increases in both sales and the number of consumers.
In 1948 the London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited and Central London Electricity Limited head office was at 60 St. Martins Lane. There were showrooms at: 143/7 Regent Street; 31 Belgrave Road; 254 Earl's Court Road; 147 Sloane Street; and 12 Victoria Street.
The London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited and Central London Electricity Limited were abolished on 31 March 1948 under the terms of the "Electricity Act 1947" which nationalised the British electricity supply industry. The company's high voltage bulk electricity transmission systems were vested in the British Electricity Authority. The local distribution systems and the electricity sales functions were vested in the London Electricity Board (LEB).
Key people.
Chairmen of London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited were:
Electricity supply statistics.
The electricity supply statistics for the six constituent companies in 1936, the final year of independent operation, were as follows.
Operating data for the London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited and Central London Electricity Limited was as shown.
Finances.
The combined share capital of the constituent companies in 1935 was £6,892,194. The London Associated Electricity Undertakings Limited was able to carry out the amalgamation for £7,300.
The electricity tariffs and operational revenue was as follows.


Delphinium occidentale

Delphinium occidentale, the western larkspur, is a perennial plant in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) with purple flowers. It grows along streambanks and moist areas of the Great Basin in Nevada and Utah.


Taraxacum albidum

Taraxacum albidum is a species of dandelion that grows in eastern Eurasia. A member of the Asteraceae, it is a perennial herbaceous plant native to southern Japan.
It is sometimes mistaken for "Taraxacum coreanum", but "T. coreanum" grows wild chiefly in the Korean Peninsula and some parts of China.
"Taraxacum albidum" is a hybrid between "T. coreanum" and "Taraxacum japonicum" (Tatsuyoshi Morita, "Moleculer phylodenetic analysis of polyoloid complex of East Asian Taraxacum" [sic], 1996-1997).
Features.
The deeply lobed leaves of this tap-rooted perennial plant form a basal rosette from which the long, slightly downy, unbranched hollow scapes (flower stalks) rise to around 40 cm (1 ft 4in). It blooms once a year, usually in spring (March to May) but sometimes in late autumn. Each scape bears a single flower head consisting of many small, white ray florets, opening from a rounded bud consisting of narrow green bracts.
It is pentaploid (having five sets of chromosomes) and produces seeds asexually, like many other "Taraxacum" species. Namely, most of the florets make seeds without pollination; however, a few of them require pollination. For this reason, it can be hybridized with other species.
After the flower closes, it later opens as the familiar spherical seedhead or "clock", as in other dandelions. The seedhead consists of many single-seeded fruits or achenes, each attached to a pappus of fine hairs that acts as a parachute to enable wind dispersal of the seeds, sometimes over long distances. The seeds remain dormant until autumn.
The leaves wither to avoid heat damage for several months of the summer. In autumn, new leaves emerge and continue photosynthesizing until the next summer.


Trombidium brevimanum

Trombidium brevimanum is a species of mite in the genus "Trombidium" in the family Trombidiidae. It is found in Europe.
Name.
The species name is combined from Latin "brev-" "short" and "manus" "hand".


Cirsium wrightii

Cirsium wrightii, or Wright's marsh thistle, is an endangered species of North American plants in the sunflower family. It is a monocarpic perennial sometimes reaching as much as 300 cm (10 feet) in height.
The species was originally collected in 1851 in Arizona by Charles Wright.
Distribution.
Wright's marsh thistle is known to be found at the present time in only 7 counties in South-Central New Mexico. It has also, however, known to have existed in the past in Sonora, Chihuahua, Texas and Arizona. There are many hypothesis over what caused the shrinkage of the species, of which one is drought. Since these are wetland plants, a decrease in water has detrimental effects on their survival.
Habitat and ecology.
Since it is a wetland residing plant, this species prefers moist environments, such as mountain slopes, forests, and marshes on the edges of rivers and ponds. These plants are most commonly found in low-elevation wetlands in the barren desert, and occur often in alkaline soils. It is a monocarpic perennial (or a biennial), and flowers in its second year from August to October. This species is known to interact with "Cirsium texanum" and "Cirsium vinaceum" and some hybrids have even been spotted.
Morphology.
Wright's marsh thistle is most known for its extraordinary height of up to 300 cm (10 feet). It has a central stalk with leaves and various flowering branches up the stem. Wright's marsh thistle has prickly spines that protrude from the central stalk. It consists of a single stalk that is swathed with leaves. These stem leaves, along with the basal leaves, are both succulent. The basal leaves are prickly and can average about 30 cm in measurement. Many branches arise from the top of the stalk, of which the longest branches are the flowering ones. Each of the many branches has a flowering head at the end. The style tips are 3 mm long, and can be either white or pale pink.
Conservation status.
"Cirsium wrightii", according to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, is considered to be a candidate for the endangered species list. Its listing priority is 8, therefore it continues to stay on the candidate list, considering there are other species that require more immediate attention because of higher listing priority.
Based on a study done by the WildEarth Guardians Organization, "Cirsium wrightii" has a high chance of grappling with the risk of extinction due to some of the aforementioned threats. They filed a petition on October 9, 2008 for this species to be added to the Endangered Species Act.
Causes of threat.
There are a number of threats to this plant. Because it is a marshland plant, it needs ongoing and abundant access to water. Unfortunately, the environments that it resides in are susceptible to drought. Water availability is dependent on yearly percolation patterns. Habitat loss is also a cause of threat, as it results in competition with new introduced and sometimes invasive species.


Wilderness State Park

Wilderness State Park is a public recreation area bordering Lake Michigan, five miles southwest of Mackinaw City in Emmet County in Northern Michigan. The state park's include of shoreline, diverse forested dune and swale complexes, wetlands, camping areas, and many miles of hiking trails. The state park is operated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, which has, as of 2006, approved a proposal that be officially dedicated as a wilderness area. Wilderness State Park was designated a Michigan "dark sky preserve" in 2012.
Description.
One of the most prominent physical features of the park is Waugoshance Point, which juts westward into northern Lake Michigan. Beyond the tip of the point, Temperance Island and Waugoshance Island are also parts of the state park. Four Lake Michigan lighthouses sit near the park's western boundary. Stations at Grays Reef, Skillagalee Island, Waugoshance, and White Shoal warn shipping away from the dangerous reefs and shoals of Waugoshance Point.
History.
The state began acquiring the park's lands in 1896 through purchase and tax reversion proceedings. After the reversion of additional acreage for tax nonpayment in the early years of the twentieth century, the site became the Emmet State Game Refuge in 1922, with the land set aside for the breeding of game birds and other animals. When the game reserve was placed under the administration of the Parks Division in 1927, it officially became Wilderness State Park.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was active in the park for six years during the 1930s. The corps' workers built various structures, eight miles of trails, a public campground, and four-acre Goose Pond.
Wildlife.
The park supports populations of many animals that are part of the traditional image of the northern Great Lakes ecosystem, including American black bear, snowshoe hare, beaver, porcupines, bobcats, mink, muskrats, and otter. The park's cobble beach areas provide an excellent habitat for the federally endangered piping plover. As of 2002, approximately one-third of Michigan's nesting pairs of piping plovers were found in Wilderness State Park. One of the first sightings of wolves in the Lower Peninsula was reported along the park's shoreline by a Coast Guard pilot in 1997. In 2015, MDNR officials confirmed the presence of wolves in the Lower Peninsula.
Activities and amenities.
The state park offers swimming, picnicking, boat launch, fishing, a 250-site campground and cabins. The state park contains of trails for hiking, mountain biking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling, that include a section of the North Country Trail.


Centrostephanus nitidus

Centrostephanus nitidus is a species of sea urchins of the Family Diadematidae. Their armour is covered with spines. "Centrostephanus nitidus" was first scientifically described in 1927 by Koehler.


Acacia ramiflora

Acacia ramiflora is a shrub of the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Plurinerves" that is endemic to an inland area of north eastern Australia.
The shrub typically grows to a maximum height of about and has a slender habit with pendulous, angled and glabrous branchlets.


Bulbophyllum baculiferum

Bulbophyllum baculiferum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".


Asterolasia pallida

Asterolasia pallida is a species of woody, perennial herb that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has elliptical leaves and white flowers arranged in umbels of three to six with star-shaped hairs on the back of the petals and fifteen to twenty-five stamens.
Description.
"Asterolasia pallida" is a woody, perennial herb that typically grows to a height of about and sometimes forms a rhizome. The leaves are elliptical, long and covered with star-shaped hairs on the lower side. The flowers are arranged in umbels of three to six in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a thin pedicel long. The petals are white, elliptical, long, with rust-coloured and colourless, star-shaped hairs on the back, and there are fifteen to twenty-five stamens.
Taxonomy.
"Asterolasia pallida" was first formally described in 1863 by George Bentham and the description was published in "Flora Australiensis" from specimens collected by James Drummond.
In 1998, Paul Wilson described two subspecies and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
Distribution and habitat.
This species grows on laterite in jarrah - marri woodland on the Darling Range from near Perth to Manjimup. Subspecies "hyalina" is restricted to the Dryandra State Forest.
Conservation status.
"Asterolasia pallida" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.


Araeosoma paucispinum

Araeosoma paucispinum is a species of sea urchin of the family Echinothuriidae. Their armour is covered with spines. It is placed in the genus Araeosoma and lives in the sea. Araeosoma paucispinum was first scientifically described in 1924 by Hubert Lyman Clark, an American zoologist.


Lactarius adhaerens

Lactarius adhaerens is a member of the large milk-cap genus "Lactarius" in the order Russulales. It is found in Madagascar, where it grows on decayed wood. The species was first described in 1938 by French botanist Roger Heim.


Rhododendron calostrotum

Rhododendron calostrotum is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Rhododendron" native to Tibet, south-central China, and Myanmar. Its putative subspecies "Rhododendron calostrotum" subsp. "keleticum", called the beautiful-covering rhododendron, and its cultivar 'Gigha' have both gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Supbspecies.
The following subspecies are currently accepted:


Fowlers Hollow State Park

Fowlers Hollow State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Toboyne Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is from Blain just off Pennsylvania Route 274. Fowlers Hollow State Park is on the site of a former sawmill, and was developed as a park by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
History.
The land on which Fowlers Hollow State Park sits was clear cut during the early 1900s (decade). The Perry Lumber Company built a narrow-gauge railroad on the former Path Valley Railroad bed from New Germantown to the area of what is now Big Spring State Forest Picnic Area. The lumber company never built a permanent sawmill in the area. Instead they used five portable mills. Lumber was cut and bark was stripped from the hemlock. The standing lumber was quickly exhausted and logging operations were complete in the area by 1905. The state of Pennsylvania bought from the Perry Lumber Company in 1907. Construction of the park facilities took place during the Great Depression by works of the Works Progress Administration.
Recreation.
Fowlers Hollow State Park is used by families on picnics and outdoor enthusiasts seeking to hunt, fish, snowmobile, and ski within the park and in the nearby Tuscarora State Forest. The picnic facilities at the park have stone fireplaces that were built by the CCC. Fowler Hollow Run passes through the park and is a brown trout fishery. There are 18 campsites at the park: twelve are for trailers, and six for tents. It also serves as a trailhead for the trail system of the Tuscarora State Forest. Hunters, snowmobilers, and cross-country skiers also use the park to gain access to the surrounding state forest.
Nearby state parks.
The following state parks are within of Fowlers Hollow State Park:


Chaetodiadema africanum

Chaetodiadema africanum is a species of sea urchins of the Family Diadematidae. Their armour is covered with spines. Chaetodiadema africanum was first scientifically described in 1924 by Hubert Lyman Clark.


Leptodesmus thwaitesii

Leptodesmus thwaitesii, is a species of millipedes in the family Chelodesmidae. It was once thought endemic to Sri Lanka, where first documented from Peradeniya.


Gagea jaeschkei

Gagea jaeschkei is an Asian species of plants in the lily family. It is native to Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India.
"Gagea jaeschkei" is a bulb-forming perennial up to 5 cm tall. Flowers are yellow in the front, dull purple on the backside.


Eagle Point Park (Dubuque, Iowa)

Eagle Point Park is a public park located in the northeast corner of the city of Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Eagle Point is mostly situated on a bluff that overlooks the Mississippi River and the Lock and Dam No. 11. The park is owned and operated by the city of Dubuque. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. At the time of its nomination it contained 34 resources, which included 14 contributing buildings, seven contributing sites, five structures, five objects, two non-contributing buildings, and two non-contributing structures.
History.
The Eagle Point site was selected by Charles Mulford Robinson, who wrote a report, "Report on the Improvement of the City of Dubuque, Iowa". A committee, led by Judge Oliver Perry Shiras, was formed and the property was acquired by the city in 1908. The park was opened in 1909. During the Great Depression, as part of the Works Progress Administration program the park was expanded and renovated. President Franklin D. Roosevelt viewed the park and said, "This is my idea of a worthwhile boondoggle". Architect Alfred Caldwell directed the building of many of the structures at the park, which made use of the limestone found in the area. These include the pavilions, the fish pond, the areas around the fish pond, and a bandshell for public concerts. A large statue of an eagle was placed near the entrance to the park. At one time the city offered regular bus service to and from the park, and a shelter was built for bus passengers. Today that shelter is used as an information center.
The Riverwalk, situated along the edge of the bluff, has views of the Mississippi, the Lock and Dam, the city of Dubuque, and Grant County, Wisconsin. The park offers tennis courts, horseshoe pits, playground equipment, a band shell with free music concerts, and a small wading pool for young children. The park charges a one dollar admission fee for automobiles, and a five dollar fee for buses to enter the park. There is no fee for pedestrians. The park's season runs from May 1 to October 31. During the off season the park is closed to vehicle traffic, but people can park near Eagle Point's rear entrance and walk into the park.
Below the park is the site of the Eagle Point Bridge, which was torn down in the 1980s.
Note that there is also an Eagle Point Park located in Clinton, IA.


Sparganium fluctuans

Sparganium fluctuans is a species of bur-reed found in North America known by the common name floating bur-reed. It is listed as endangered in Connecticut.


Pritchardia minor

Pritchardia minor, the Alakai Swamp pritchardia or loulu, is a palm native to Hawaii. It grows in wet forests in the centre of Kauai at an elevation of about .
Description.
The Alakai Swamp pritchardia grows up to high, and forms a trunk with a diameter of approximately . The leaves are yellowish when they emerge, and this color is sometimes maintained on the undersides of mature leaves. The leaves are leathery and smooth above, but the undersides are waxy and have a covering of greyish to yellowish tomentum (felt) beneath. The shiny black fruits of this palm are ovoid, about 2 cm by 13 mm, and contain a seed up to 15 mm in diameter. It is not endangered.
Cultivation.
This palm prefers a sunny, well drained, and moist location.


Evalljapyx propinquus

Evalljapyx propinquus is a species of forcepstail in the family Japygidae. It is found in North America.


Mammillaria brandegeei

Mammillaria brandegeei is a species of cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae.


Eucalyptus michaeliana

Eucalyptus michaeliana, commonly known as Hillgrove gum or brittle gum, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has smooth mottled greyish bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in compound umbels, white flowers and cup-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit.
Description.
"Eucalyptus michaeliana" is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, mottled, grey and white or cream-coloured bark that is shed in plates or flakes. Young plants and coppice regrowth have lance-shaped to broadly lance-shaped leaves that are the same dull green colour on both sides, long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on a peduncle with three to five groups of buds, each with three or seven buds. The peduncle is long, each bud on a pedicel long. Mature buds are oblong, long and wide with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering occurs in March and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped or barrel-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves near rim level or below it.
Taxonomy and naming.
"Eucalyptus michaeliana" was first formally described in 1938 by William Blakely from specimens collected by John Fauna Campbell near Hillgrove in 1907. The description was published in "Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales". The specific epithet honours Norman Michael (1884–1951), a clergyman who collected plant specimens in Queensland, including this species that he collected in 1937 whilst he was a minister at Boonah.
Distribution and habitat.
Hillgrove gum grows in woodland on sandy soils and has a disjunct distribution between St Albans and Wollomombi in New South Wales and in south-east Queensland.


White Mountain National Forest

The White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) is a federally managed forest contained within the White Mountains in the northeastern United States. It was established in 1918 as a result of the Weeks Act of 1911; federal acquisition of land had already begun in 1914. It has a total area of (1,225 sq mi). Most of the WMNF is in New Hampshire; a small part (about 5.65% of the forest) is in the neighboring state of Maine. While often casually referred to as a park, this is a national forest, used not only for hiking, camping, and skiing but for logging and other limited commercial purposes. The WMNF is the only national forest located in either New Hampshire or Maine, and is the most eastern national forest in the United States. Most of the major peaks over 4,000 feet high for peak-bagging in New Hampshire are located in the national forest. Over of the Appalachian Trail traverses the White Mountain National Forest. In descending order of land area the forest lies in parts of Grafton, Coos, and Carroll counties in New Hampshire, and Oxford County in Maine.
The Forest Supervisor's office is located in Campton and there are three ranger districts: the Pemigewasset District, with offices in Campton; the Androscoggin District, based in Gorham; and the Saco District, based in Conway. Furthermore, there are , including those located at Lincoln, Campton (off Interstate 93), and Lincoln Woods (on the Kancamagus Highway). The White Mountain National Forest consists of three discontinuous areas. The area to the west of Franconia Notch (a narrow north-south valley primarily within a state park) consists of the regions surrounding Cannon Mountain, Kinsman Mountain and Mount Moosilauke (though the majority of Moosilauke is privately owned). The main body of the national forest includes the Presidential Range and many other ranges - most notably, the Franconia, Twin, Bond, Sandwich, Willey, and Carter-Moriah ranges. An exclave of the Forest lies to the north of U.S. Route 2 in Stark and Randolph, New Hampshire.
It is home to wildlife species including bald eagle, raccoon, beaver, white-tailed deer, moose, black bear, coyote, peregrine falcon, Canadian lynx, river otter, bobcat, gray and red foxes, fisher, mink and porcupine.
Six designated Federal Wilderness Areas exist within the Forest: the Presidential Range/Dry River Wilderness, the Great Gulf Wilderness, the Pemigewasset Wilderness, the Sandwich Range Wilderness, the Caribou/Speckled Mountain Wilderness, and the Wild River Wilderness. These areas are protected from logging and commercial industries and are used solely for recreational and scientific purposes. They were formed under the Federal Wilderness Protection Act of 1984, and its amendments. The New England Wilderness Protection Act of 2006 increased the Sandwich Range Wilderness to its present size and created the Wild River Wilderness area.
Because of its beauty, its proximity to major metropolitan areas, its of hiking trails, 23 campgrounds, and the presence of many ski areas within or near its boundaries, the WMNF is one of the most visited outdoor recreation sites east of the Mississippi. Winter season lengths are projected to decline across the WMNF due to the effects of global warming, however, which is likely to continue the historic contraction and consolidation of the ski industry and threaten individual ski businesses and communities that rely on ski tourism.
Weather.
US Forest Service signs on hiking trails at tree line state that the mountain summit areas have "the worst weather in America". The claim is also used by the observatory near the summit of Mount Washington which once recorded a surface wind speed of . Since 1849 over 135 people have died on Mount Washington.


Miyamayomena koraiensis

Miyamayomena koraiensis (Korean:벌개미취), commonly called Korean starwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae). It can be found in temperate regions, mostly in Korea, in lawns, on roadsides, and other areas with moist soils. Korean starwort is a Korean endemic plant and was first named in the genus "Aster" in 1909. In Korea, its young leaves are used in food preparation.
Description.
"Aster koraiensis" is a perennial herb. The height is about 50~60 cm. The leaves are green color, alternate, lanceolate and pinnately lobed. They are 12~19 cm length and 1.5~3 cm width of leaves. The main stem grows from rhizome, a horizontal stem of plant that is found underground. The leaves on the roots, radical leaves, fall when flowers begin to open. Leaflike bracts can be found. The flower is bisexual and pale violet color and has an inflorescence head which diameter is about 4~5 cm (Only one flower per stem). The involucre is 13 mm length, and 8 mm diameter and has four lines of involucral scale. The achene has about 4 mm length and 1.3 mm diameter and lanceolate shape. There is no pappus. It blooms from June to September; the fruits (achenes) mature in November.
Distribution.
"M. koraiensis" originated in Korea and also is naturalized throughout Korea peninsula (South Korea and North Korea). It can be easily found anywhere in Korea (around flower gardens, roadsides, mountains, valley, etc.).
Economic value.
The characteristic of tenacious hold on life of "M. koraiensis" makes it possible for massive breeding. The roots are strong to hold on to the ground firmly, and easily grow in most environments, even in barren soil. It has ability to prevent soil runoff so that sometimes these flowers are planted on roadsides, and places where need erosion control.
Origin of the name.
In the name "Aster koraiensis", '"Aster"' means "star" in Greek, and "'koraiensis"' means "from Korea". Due to the star shape of flower, it got this name.
In Korea, "M. koraiensis" is called "Beolgaemichui". 'Beol' means bee in Korean so some people think the name "Beolgaemichui (벌개미취)" came from the belief that bees love this flower.
Language of flowers.
In the language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, this flower means "I will never forget the memory, nostalgia, and you."


Goodenia eremophila

Goodenia eremophila is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is an ascending herb with linear to elliptic leaves and thyrses of blue flowers.
Description.
"Goodenia eremophila" is an ascending herb that typically grows to a height of with purplish glandular hairs. The leaves are linear to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in thyrses up to long on a peduncle long with leaf-like bracts at the base. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the corolla blue and up to long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about wide. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is an oval capsule long.
Taxonomy and naming.
"Goodenia eremophila" was first formally described in 1905 by Ernst Georg Pritzel in "Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie". The specific epithet ("eremophila") means "solitary-loving".
Distribution and habitat.
This goodenia grows in sandy soli between Wiluna and Kalgoorlie in the Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison and Pilbara biogeographic regions of inland Western Australia.
Conservation status.
"Goodenia eremophila" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.


Rosa willmottiae

Rosa willmottiae, Miss Willmott's rose or Willmott's rose, is a species in the genus "Rosa" in the plant family Rosaceae. It grows at an altitude of in dry valleys in western Sichuan, China. It forms an arching deciduous shrub high, and as much across. The branches are covered in many straight prickles. The pinnate leaves typically have 7 to 9 small bluish-green leaflets which emit a pleasant fragrance when bruised. It was introduced to western cultivation by Ernest Wilson in 1904 and was named after the collector and horticulturist Ellen Willmott. The flowers are small (), lilac-pink, and are borne on short laterals all along the length of the branches in late spring/early summer. The hips are small, becoming orange-red and losing their tips when ripe.
Quest-Ritson & Quest-Ritson describe "Rosa willmottiae" as "one of the few wild roses that merits a place in a mixed border or even as a specimen shrub" and that when in flower it is "the embodiment of beauty".


Juncus antarcticus

Juncus antarcticus is a flowering plant species in the rush family Juncaceae, native to both New Zealand and Australia.
Description.
It is a dwarf perennial which forms cushions and has well-developed rhizomes and stolons. The culms are erect, smooth, and 0.5–5 cm high, both slightly shorter and slightly exceeding the leaves in length. The leaves are borne on the more or less elongated aerial portion of a stem, with the older leaves persisting and turning yellow-brown. The inflorescence is a 1–5-flowered cluster, which expands to about 3–7 mm in diameter when in fruit. There are three stamens, sometimes six. The upper part of the ovoid capsules is reddish-brown, and they are 2–3 mm long.
Distribution.
In Australia, it is found in New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria. In Victoria, it is found late-lying snowpatches and at the edges of bogs and creeks on the Bogong High Plains.
In New Zealand, it is found in both the North and South Islands, and Stewart, Chatham, Auckland and Campbell Islands.
Habitat.
It is found in wetlands, bogs and mires.
In the northern part of its range (in New Zealand and Australia) it is alpine to subalpine, but in the subantarctic islands and around Otago it is also found at sea level.
Conservation status.
In both 2009 and 2012 it was deemed to be "Not Threatened" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, and this New Zealand classification was reaffirmed in 2018, with the further comment that it is secure overseas.
In Victoria it is listed as vulnerable under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.


Paeonia mairei

Paeonia mairei is a species of peony, that is endemic to the mountains of central China. Its vernacular name in China is 美丽芍药 (mei li shao yao) meaning "beautiful peony". The plant may be between 45–100 cm high and has mostly rose-pink flowers of about 10 cm across, one on each stem. "P. mairei" blooms in early spring.
Description.
"Paeonia mairei" is a perennial herbaceous plant of up to 1 m high, that dies down in the autumn, and overwinters with buds just under the surface of the soil. It has thick roots that become thinner towards their tips, while the rootstocks is approximately 2 cm in diameter. Young shoots and leaves are initially red-purple to pink. The stems and leaves are hairless. The largest leaves, near the base of the stem are split into three, which parts themselves are split into leaflets, some of which may be incised, up to nineteen in total, 6—16½ × 1¾—7 cm, gradually broadening at their base and usually pointy at their tip. Veins are deeply sunken on the top-side of the leaf. Each stem bears only one flower at its tip of between 7½ and 14 cm wide. Each flower is accompanied by one to three leaflike or linear bracts of up to 9 cm long. Each flower has three to five, green and broadly oval sepals of 1—1½ × ⅞—1¼ cm. The seven to nine, inverted egg-shaped, pink to Spanish carmine petals are 3½—7 × 2—4½ cm, with a usually rounded tip. Within the circle of petals is a circle of stamens that consist of purple-red filaments topped by yellow anthers. Within is a low, yellow, ring-shaped disc, that encircles the base of the two or three carpels, which may be sparsely to densely covered in short yellow or golden brown felty hairs, or rarely hairless. Those are topped by styles of up to 4 mm long, that have red stigmas. Each carpel develops into a dry fruit that opens with a suture (or follicle) of 3—3½ × 1—1¼ cm. The inside of the fruit is bright red which contrast well with the blue shiny seeds. This peony species in his native range flowers in April and May, and produces seed in August. "Paeonia mairei" has both diploid and tetraploid populations (2n=10, 4n=20).
Taxonomy.
With all Eurasian herbaceous peonies species, "Paeonia mairei" belongs to the section "Paeonia". The taxonomy of this group of peonies is complicated due to reticulate evolution. In the most recent revision of the genus, it is assigned to the subsection "Foliatae" with "P. algeriensis", "P. broteri", "P. cambessedesii", "P. clusii", "P. coriacea", "P. corsica", "P. daurica", "P. kesrouanensis", "P. mascula" and "P. obovata".
"Paeonia russi" is the tetraploid hybrid of diploid "P. lactiflora" and "P. mairei". "Paeonia banatica" is the tetraploid hybrid of "P. mairei" and either "P. arietina", "P. humilis", "P. officinalis", "P. parnassica" or less likely "P. tenuifolia", or one of their (now extinct) common ancestors.
Etymology.
"Paeonia mairei" was named in honor of the French missionary Père Edouard-Ernest Maire who discovered the plant for western science in 1913 in northeastern Yunnan.
Distribution and ecology.
"Paeonia mairei" can be found in deciduous broad-leaved forests on lime, between 1500 and 2700 m altitude, but is reported to been found as high as 3200 m when discovered by Père Maire. It grows naturally in southeastern Gansu, northwestern Guizhou, southwestern Hubei, southern Shaanxi, central and Southern Sichuan, and northeastern Yunnan.
Cultivation.
"Paeonia mairei" has only recently become available as an ornamental outside of China. It is reported to be the first of the herbaceous peonies to bloom, and recover well from morning frost. It does not take full sun well, but needs enough light.


Eremiolirion amboense


Oneok

Oneok, Inc. ( ) is a diversified Fortune 500 corporation based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oneok was founded in 1906 as Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, but it changed its corporate name to Oneok in December 1980. It also owns major natural gas liquids (NGL) systems due to the 2005 acquisition of Koch Industries natural gas businesses.
Oneok's Energy Services operation focuses primarily on marketing natural gas and related services throughout the U.S. Energy Services, which derives more than 84 percent of its earnings from the physical marketing business, showed an operating income increase of $26.5 million. Energy Services’ retail business participates in customer gas choice program in Nebraska and Wyoming.
Oneok's predecessor, Oklahoma Natural Gas Company (ONG), had been headquartered in an Art Deco building on the northwest corner of Seventh Street and Boston Avenue in Tulsa since 1928. In 1982, Oneok chairman, J. E. Tyree, announced plans to demolish the ONG building and replace it with a new 16-story tower. However, this did not happen. Instead, Oneok bought a new Cities Service Company building still under construction (later renamed Citgo) in August, 1982. The Cities Service Company, undergoing financial difficulties, already had a project underway to build a high-rise headquarters building at Fifth and Boulder. Oneok realized that it would be more economical to cap the planned structure at 17 stories and move its headquarters there, rather than to proceed with its original plan. It completed the new black granite and glass tower in 1984.
In 2009, Oneok sponsored the construction of Oneok Field, the new Tulsa Drillers minor league baseball stadium in downtown Tulsa.
History.
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company (ONG) was founded in 1906 by two attorneys, Dennis T. Flynn and Charles B. Ames, who planned to develop the natural gas that was a byproduct of the northern Oklahoma oilfields. ONG incorporated on October 9, 1906, under the laws of Oklahoma Territory. Flynn was president and Ames the secretary. Joined by Chicago entrepreneur, H. M. Byllesby, for whom they worked, they also formed the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E) to bring natural gas from the Cleveland Oil Field to Oklahoma City, using it to generate electric power. Byllesby soon resigned, but Glenn T. Braden and Theodore N. Barnsdall joined ONG. Both were already experienced oilmen. Together, they owned the Osage and Oklahoma Gas Company. Braden had been an executive of Standard Oil Company and Barnsdall an oil producer. ONG built a natural gas pipeline from the Osage fields to Oklahoma City which went into service December 28, 1907. ONG extended the line to Guthrie and Shawnee. It also built the first gas pipeline compressor station in the state in 1910. Braden followed Flynn as president of the company.
ONG continued to build pipelines throughout Oklahoma. By the time Braden retired in 1921, ONG owned over of lines and served over a half million customers in 48 of the state's 77 counties. In 1928, it built its noted headquarters building in Tulsa. It reorganized several times, first becoming a Maryland Corporation, then a Delaware Corporation.
In December 1980, the Oklahoma Natural Gas board voted to reorganize as a holding company, Oneok Inc. Oklahoma Natural Gas became Oneok's leading subsidiary, headquartered in Oklahoma City. The parent company is headquartered in Tulsa.
In 1996, Oneok acquired the natural gas operations of Kansas utility Western Resources (now Westar Energy) and reorganized them as Kansas Gas Service. In 2003, it acquired the Texas properties of Southern Union Gas, which became another Oneok operating company, Texas Gas service.
In 2007, "Fortune" magazine named Oneok the most admired company in the energy industry.
In February 2014, Oneok spun off its natural gas distribution companies–Oklahoma Natural Gas, Kansas Gas Service, and Texas Gas Services–into a separate publicly traded company, ONE Gas. For all intents and purposes, Oneok had spun out the core of the original Oklahoma Natural Gas.
For many years until 2017, Oneok was an MLP and issued its holders a K-1 every year. That year it became a regular company (C-corporation) and it issues its stockholders a yearly 1099 summarizing their income from the company.


Boletus miniato-olivaceus

Boletus miniato-olivaceus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. Described as new to science in 1874, it is found in eastern North America and northeast Mexico.
Taxonomy.
The species was first described by American botanist Charles Christopher Frost in 1874, from collections made near Marlboro, Vermont. William Alphonso Murrill transferred the species to the genus "Ceriomyces" in 1909; this genus has since been folded into "Boletus". For many years the species concept of "Boletus miniato-olivaceus" was unclear, and it was not definitively agreed upon which combination of characteristics separated this species from the similar "B. sensibilis", or even other related American boletes such as "B. bicoloroides", "B. miniatopallescens", "B. sensibilis" and "Lanmaoa carminipes". After examining the type specimens of "B. miniato-olivaceus" as well as several fresh specimens, Roy Halling determined that there was considerable variability in some characters, particularly in the morphology of the cystidia.
Description.
The cap is initially convex before flattening out in maturity, and attains a diameter of . The cap surface is dry and smooth. The color in young specimens is red, changing gradually to pale rose-pink or rose-tan with greenish or yellowish tints in maturity. The flesh is white to pale yellow except for directly underneath the cap cuticle, where it is reddish. It has no distinctive taste or odor. When cut or injured, it turns blue, although this reaction may be slow. The pore surface on the underside of the cap is initially yellow but turns dingy olive-green (sometimes with reddish tints) when older. The angular to circular pores number about 1–2 per millimeter. The tubes comprising the hymenophore are deep. The stem is long by thick, and either equal in width through, or tapered at either end. It is solid (i.e., not hollow), dry, and colored yellow with reddish to brownish tinges, especially near the base.
"Boletus miniato-olivaceus" produces an olive-brown spore print. The spores are somewhat elliptical to spindle-shaped, smooth, and measure 10–15 by 4–6 μm. Fruit bodies are poisonous, and cause gastrointestinal disorders if consumed. They can be used in mushroom dyeing, and produce colors ranging from brown, beige, yellow, or light orange, depending on the mordant used.
Habitat and distribution.
"Boletus miniato-olivaceus" is a mycorrhizal species, and has been shown in the laboratory to form a Hartig net with loblolly pine ("Pinus taeda") that is typical of pine mycorrhizae in nature. In nature, the fruit bodies grow singly, scattered, or in groups on the ground. Typically habitats include deciduous or mixed forests. An uncommon species, fruiting occurs from June to October. Its distribution includes eastern Canada south to Florida, extending west to the Great Lakes region.
The bolete was reported from a Mexican beech ("Fagus mexicana") forest in Hidalgo, Mexico in 2010.


Aceria pseudoplatani

Aceria pseudoplatani causes the sycamore felt gall that is found on the leaves of sycamores ("Acer pseudoplatanus") or Norway maple ("Acer platanoides"), and is caused by an acarine gall-mite.
Appearance.
The gall forms a bulge on the upper epidermis where the pigment colour is usually light yellow to start with and brown later on in the year. The appearance on the lower epidermis is a concavity with cream or white coloured felt-like mat which later turns brown. The bulge is due to the erinae or hairs being wider at their top. In purple-leaved varieties of the sycamore the patches are pink. The size of the felt-like patches is variable and they may appear from late spring onwards.
Distribution.
The Sycamore Felt Gall is quite common and is widespread through the United Kingdom and is also recorded from Poland, Belgium and Germany.
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Acacia grisea

Acacia grisea is a shrub of the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Pulchellae" that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.
Description.
The shrub to subshrub typically grows to a height of and has hairy branchlets with two pairs of pinnae and the proximal pinnae have a length of and the distal pinnae have a length of with two to three pairs of proximal pinnules on the proximal pinnae and four to seven pairs of pinnules on the distal pinnae. The slightly thickened, hairy, grey-green pinnules have a more or less oblong shape and are in length and wide. It blooms from June to August and produces yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences occur singly in the axils and have spherical flower-heads containing 16 to 26 golden coloured flowers. The hairy seed pods that form later have a length of and contain oblong to elliptic shaped seeds that are about in length.
Taxonomy.
It is closely related to "Acacia browniana" which is found closer to the coast.
Distribution.
It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on slopes and undulating plains growing in gravelly loamy lateritic soils. The range of the plant extends from around Kukerin in the north to around Kojonup in the south west]] and Brommehill in the south east.


Pseudomonas septica

Pseudomonas septica is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, bacterium that is pathogenic to insects. It was first isolated on the weevil "Xyloterus lineatus." The type strain is ATCC 14545.


Acacia mabellae

Acacia mabellae, commonly known as Mabels's wattle or black wattle, is a shrub or tree of the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Phyllodineae" that is endemic to eastern Australia.
Description.
The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of or as high as . It has glabrous angled branchlets with pendulous phyllodes that have a linear-elliptic to falcate, occasionally oblanceolate shape and are usually narrowed at both ends. The phyllodes are around in length and have a width of and have prominent midribs. It blooms between August and November producing simple inflorescences that occur in groups of 6 to 16 on the raceme with the spherical flower-heads contain 17 to 20 creamy white coloured flowers. The thinly coriaceous glabrous seed pods that form after flowering have a narrowly oblong shape and have a length of up to and a width of . The seeds within have an oblong to ovate-elliptic shape with a length of and a thick black aril.
Taxonomy.
The specific epithet honours Mabel Fanny Cambage who was the daughter of R.H. Cambage, a colleague of Joseph Maiden. It is also sometimes referred to as 'mabelliae', but this spelling change is not correct.
Distribution.
It is native to an area of New South Wales on the coastal slopes of the Great Dividing Range from around Camden in the north down to around Bermagui in the south growing in gullies in sandy soils as a part of open "Eucalyptus" woodland communities.


Black Hawk State Historic Site

The Black Hawk State Historic Site, in Rock Island, Illinois, occupies much of the historic site of the village of Saukenuk, the home of a band of Native Americans of the Sauk nation. It includes the John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life. The state park is located on a bluff overlooking the Rock River in western Illinois. It is most famous for being the birthplace of the Sauk warrior Black Hawk. The disputed cession of this area to the U.S. Government was the catalyst for the Black Hawk War.
Under the Sauk.
The Sauk nation occupied this site as their principal village, called "Saukenuk". It was a well-drained area, suitable for growing corn. The Sauk had arrived by 1750, probably after the Fox Wars (1712-1733). When the explorer Jonathan Carver reached Saukenuk in 1766, he called it "the largest and best built Indian town" he had ever seen, "more like a civilized town than the abode of savages."
The Sauk successfully farmed the area during part of the year and spent the winters in camps down and across the Mississippi collecting fur-bearing animals. Sauk hunters skinned their catches and sold the peltry to fur traders from the Great Lakes. From 1763 on, these traders were mostly British, and from the 1780s on, most of them were employees or contractors of the Canada-based North West Company. In the spring, the Sauk gathered in sugar camps for maple sugaring before returning to the village (left empty since the fall) to plant crops and bury their dead.
The Sauk developed military and economic ties with British North America. Due to these ties, the Sauk expected British military assistance. Some of the Sauk traveled every year to British forts on far-away Lake Superior and near Detroit for trading and gift-giving.
A disputed 1804 St. Louis Treaty between Quashquame and William Henry Harrison led to the transfer of Illinois lands to the U.S. Government, including Saukenuk. The Sauk did not consider this treaty valid, and they continued to live at the village.
When Thomas Forsyth arrived in Saukenuk in 1817, he described it as the most populous Indian village he had ever seen.
By 1826, an estimated 4,800 Sauk lived in and around Saukenuk. Others who passed through, such as William H. Keating, noted that the village was not limited to the Sauk. Keating estimated only about 20% of the warriors that the Sauk could muster had pure Sauk ancestry. It was the largest single settlement in the new U.S. state of Illinois. This is how Black Hawk described Saukenuk:
The Black Hawk War.
The defeat of the British in the War of 1812 and the spread of American settlers into Illinois and up the Mississippi River doomed the village. In multiple treaties, many of the Sauk had signed land cessions that sold the land under Saukenuk to the new American nation. Part of the tribe established new villages in Iowa and in Missouri nearer their winter hunting grounds.
The campaign of 1832 led to a complete victory for the U.S. Army and the state of Illinois. Many of Black Hawk's followers were killed and the Quad Cities region was completely opened to settlement. However, many white Americans admired Black Hawk's courage in defense of his band's ancestral lands, and the native leader was elevated to the rank of a folk hero.
A statue of Black Hawk was raised on the site in 1892, and the Civilian Conservation Corps redeveloped and improved the park in 1934-1942.
The village site today.
The last couple of blocks on the southern portion of 11th street Rock Island (HWY 67) now cover the former site of the Sauk village of Saukenuk, with "Black Hawk State Historic Site" and "John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life" slightly to the east. Saukenuk had strong ties with the Meskwaki village to the north, what is now downtown Rock Island. Vandruff Island in the Rock River to the south of the village was also a place in which villagers spent their days. The island is now mainly a 180-foot-deep quarry with some residential development on the west side. The historic site is served by Illinois Route 5, which intersects with Interstate 74 in nearby Moline, Illinois, at exit #4.
John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life.
The Hauberg Museum specializes in Sauk and Mesquakie cultural objects and artifacts. The museum is located in a lodge constructed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and was named after John Hauberg, a philanthropist from Rock Island. Exhibits include full-size replicas of Sauk winter and summer houses, dioramas depicting Native life typical of the period from 1750 to 1830, trade goods, jewelry and domestic items, and several Black Hawk artifacts, including his tomahawk, two of his clay tobacco pipes, and a bronze bust fashioned from a plaster life mask.
Singing Bird Nature Center.
The Singing Bird Nature Center offers educational programs in the northwest section of the park. One section of the building is dedicated to the study of local native birds. The nature center is named after Black Hawk's wife Asshewaqua meaning Singing Bird.


Erigeron pallens

Erigeron pallens is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name pale fleabane. It is native to the Rocky Mountains of western Canada (Alberta + British Columbia). There are some reports of the species in arctic regions but these populations have been reclassified under other species.
"Erigeron pallens" is a tiny, unbranching perennial herb rarely more than 10 centimeters (4 inches) tall, producing a woody taproot. The leaves are covered with wool. The plant generally produces only 1 flower head per stem, each head with 50–60 white, pink, or purpleray florets surrounding numerous yellow disc florets. The plant grows on rocky slopes in sparsely vegetated slopes.


Illinois Beach State Park

Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park is part of the Illinois state park system and is located along Lake Michigan in Winthrop Harbor, Zion, Beach Park and unincorporated Benton Township in northeast Illinois. Together with lands to the north, including Chiwaukee Prairie, it forms the "Chiwaukee Prairie Illinois Beach Lake Plain", an internationally recognized wet-land of importance under the Ramsar Convention. The park is broken into two units that encompass an area of and contains over six miles of Lake Michigan shoreline.
Recreational activities at the park include boating, swimming, hiking, bicycling, camping, bird watching, and picnicking. Known primarily for the beach, the park also includes dune areas, wetlands, prairie, and black oak savanna. The area at the far southern end of the park is a designated nature preserve, which was named a National Natural Landmark in 1980.
History.
The park was gradually created starting in 1948 when the state acquired the first parcels. The northern unit, acquired between 1971 and 1982, was previously an Illinois National Guard training facility known as Camp Logan, Illinois. During the American Civil War, Camp Logan was a Union prisoner of war camp.
Geology.
The park is located in the 12 mile long Zion Beach Ridge Plain. The Zion Beach Ridge Plain is 3,700 years old and composed of curvilinear ridge-and-swale topography. The beach ridges support black oak savanna habitat, while wetlands dominate the swales. The Zion Beach Ridge Plain has been migrating south throughout the late Holocene: the northern portion of the beach ridge erodes; freed sediment is then transported through the dominantly southward littoral drift and deposited on the southern portion of the beach ridge. This erosion and subsequent accretion process created the characteristically curved ridges and swales of the park as the complex migrates south. The northern unit of Illinois Beach State Park experiences rapid rates of erosion, which was exacerbated by the construction of North Point Marina in 1989 and reaches highs of 60 ft per year. The southward migration of the beach ridge plain has been disrupted by the construction of Waukegan Harbor. Erosion in the north unit of the park is exacerbated during periods of high lake level. As Lake Michigan has entered a period near record high lake levels since 2014, the park is experiencing rapid transgression of the shoreline.
Access.
The entry to the beach is usually from a parking area on its north side: north of this carpark is usually the most crowded area in the summer time. South, the beach is less crowded and a mile of shoreline extends to an inlet into a wetland. Depending on weather conditions this inlet may be blocked by a berm from the lake waters, and again depending on weather conditions the water inside the berm may be significantly warmer than Lake Michigan which is rather cold until August.
Management.
As the South Unit is not in an actual municipality, the police protection is provided by the Lake County Sheriff's Department. The fire and emergency medical services are provided by the Beach Park Fire Department. The water is supplied by the City of Zion, and telephone service is through the Waukegan switch. The North Unit is in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois which provides primary police and fire/emergency medical services. Both properties also fall under the jurisdiction of the Illinois Department of Conservation Police. Water service is also provided by Zion and phone service comes thorough the Zion/Winthrop Harbor switch.


Blaniulus mayeti

Blaniulus mayeti is a species of millipede in the Blaniulidae family that is endemic to France.


Schizolaena microphylla

Schizolaena microphylla is a tree in the family Sarcolaenaceae. It is endemic to Madagascar. The specific epithet "" is from the Latin meaning "small leaves".
Description.
"Schizolaena microphylla" grows as a tree up to tall, exceptionally up to . Its leaves are elliptic to ovate or roundish in shape and are hairy on the underside.
Distribution and habitat.
"Schizolaena microphylla" is known only from the central regions of Vakinankaratra and Amoron'i Mania. Its habitat is subhumid forests from altitude. Some subpopulations of the trees are within protected areas.


Gillette Castle State Park

Gillette Castle State Park straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme, Connecticut in the United States, sitting high above the Connecticut River. The castle was originally a private residence commissioned and designed by William Gillette, an American actor who is most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on stage. Gillette lived at this estate from 1919–1937. The estate was purchased by the state of Connecticut in 1943 for a price of $5,000.
Location.
The park is located at 67 River Road in East Haddam and consists of the castle (located in Lyme) and its grounds. It receives 350,000 annual visitors. It reopened in 2002 after a four-year, $11 million restoration. It now includes a visitors' center and museum, hiking trails, and a picnic area.
History.
William Gillette's "castle", called Seventh Sister and renamed "Gillette Castle" by Connecticut State in 1943, was built between 1914 and 1919 with an addition completed in 1924 on a tract at the top of the southernmost of a chain of hills known as the Seven Sisters. Gillette died having no children, and his will precluded the possession of his home by any "blithering sap-head who has no conception of where he is or with what surrounded". The State of Connecticut took over the property in 1943, renaming it "Gillette Castle State Park". It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Gillette originally planned to build his retirement home on Long Island until he discovered the cliffs of the Seven Sisters while traversing the Connecticut River in his houseboat, "Aunt Polly".
Gillette designed the home and personally overlooked every phase of the construction. Construction was performed by the Porteus-Walker Company, a leading contracting and wood-working firm based in Hartford, Connecticut founded by Gillette's childhood friend, Robert Porteus. It has been described as being designed in a medieval gothic, or an "American fairy tale mixed with European flair" style, or as "a weird blending of Victorian and Arts and Crafts". In the past, it had even been described as "Gillette's Folly".
The 3-story-plus-tower, 24-room, 14,000 sq ft home was built of wood, cement, and local Connecticut field stone, supported by a steel framework. The exterior of the home is covered in field stone. Woodwork within the home is hand-hewn southern white oak. In some places, beams were set directly into the stones, anchored only by cement. The walls, in particular, were constructed similarly to a stage set, lacking two-by-four studs and mortar in critical places. It has been noted it was "a wonder the building didn't collapse" before the castle's multimillion-dollar restoration. Insulation included seaweed and paper. It took 20 workers from 1914–1919 (5 years) to complete the construction totaling a cost of over $1 million at the time. In the years Gillette lived in the home, he led and supervised thousands of refinements by local craftsmen.
The style of the home's interior reflects craftsman aesthetic popularized by Gustave Stickley. A number of oddities exist inside the home that were personally designed by Gillette and said to be examples of his "creative genius". These include:
The home was notably decorated with a number of Tiffany lamps made of broken bottle fragments. It also had a heated bed. At one time, Gillette shared his home with up to 17 cats. For them, he designed finely crafted cat toys.
Gillette was particularly fond of his 3-mile-long narrow gauge railroad with an elaborate system of switches, trestles, bridges, turnouts, and a tunnel. Visitors, which reportedly included Albert Einstein, Helen Hayes, and Charlie Chaplin, could ride the railroad around the estate and speed along the 100-foot-plus cliffs of the Connecticut River. The railroad was complete with steam engine and an electric engine, and were later purchased by Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut. The remaining tracks were pulled up and the roadbed converted into walking trails. The engines were donated to the park in 1992, and are now on display at the Visitors' Center on the grounds. Gillette's "Grand Central Station" train stop still remains along with a replica on its roof of a metal cat figure.
The grounds also contained a root cellar, walking paths with near-vertical steps, a two-story gable-ended vernacular dwelling for servants, a small period barn, stone-arch bridges, wooded trestles spanning up to , and fish pond.


Heyburn State Park

Heyburn State Park is a public recreation area in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is located almost entirely in Benewah County, with a small portion extending into southern Kootenai County. The park was founded in 1908 and is the oldest state or provincial park in the Pacific Northwest. The park has of land and of water on three lakes: Benewah, Chatcolet, and Hidden. A dam constructed on the Spokane River in Post Falls in 1906 raised the level of Lake Coeur d'Alene, connecting it to the park's three lakes. The surface elevation of the lakes is above sea level. The park's year-round recreational opportunities include camping, boating, hiking, horseback riding, fishing, and picnicking.
History.
The Coeur d'Alene were the first inhabitants in what is now Heyburn State Park. Originally members called themselves, "Schitsu'umsh," meaning "The Discovered People" or "Those Who Are Found Here." The Natives found an abundance of fish in the three lakes of the park as well as in the Saint Joe River. Waterfowl inhabited the wetlands and deer, bear and various birds were plentiful in the grassy meadows and slopes of the surrounding mountains. Prior to the arrival of European American settlers, the Coeur d'Alene lived in what would become the Idaho Panhandle. The first Europeans to encounter the Coeur d'Alene were French traders and trappers. They found the tribe to be experienced and skilled at trading, thus the name "Coeur d'Alene," meaning "heart of the awl." One French trader described the tribe as "the greatest traders in the world." The tribe ranged over an area of over 4 million acres (16,000 km2) of grassy hills, camas-prairie, wooded mountains, lakes, marshes and river habitat in northern Idaho, eastern Washington and western Montana.
The Coeur d'Alene lands were reduced to approximately in 1873 when President Ulysses Grant established the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation. Successive government acts trimmed their property to Heyburn State Park was formed from of land and of water that were taken from the Coeur d'Alene on April 20, 1908 when President William H. Taft deeded the land to the state for the creation of Heyburn State Park named for U.S. Senator Weldon Heyburn of Idaho. Heyburn had envisioned Chatcolet National Park, which passed the Senate but stalled in the House.
Construction of many of the park's facilities was performed during the Great Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Members at Camp SP-1 built a lodge, roads, bridges, trails, picnic areas and shelters and campgrounds; many are still in use.
Ecology.
Heyburn State Park is home to a variety of habitats. Ponderosa pines, some over 400 years old, are on the mountain sides overlooking grassy hills that are covered with wildflowers. Other trees in the park included cedar, hemlock and white pine. The margins of the lake are marshy homes to wildflowers and plants.
Activities and amenities.
The Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes bike trail passes through the park, crossing the Saint Joe River on a trestle. The river and Hidden Bay, Chatcolet Lake, and Benewah Lake, all sections of the larger Lake Coeur d'Alene, are used for boating, water sports, and fishing. Common game fish include bass, pike and pan fish. The park's marina offers a boat launch, fuel dock, and supplies.


Pterostylis longicurva

Pterostylis longicurva, commonly known as the long-tongued greenhood, is a species of orchid endemic to eastern Australia. As with similar greenhoods, plants in flower differ from those that are not. Those not in flower have a rosette of leaves lying flat on the ground, but plants in flower have a single flower with leaves on the flowering stem. This species has a white and green flower with brown markings and a long, curved, brown labellum.
Description.
"Pterostylis longicurva" is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and when not in flower, a rosette of between three and seven dark green, egg-shaped leaves lying flat on the ground. Each leaf is long and wide. Plants in flower have a single flower long and wide, which leans slightly forwards on a flowering stem high with between three and five stem leaves. The flowers are white with bold green stripes and brown markings. The dorsal sepal and petals are fused, forming a hood or "galea" over the column, the dorsal sepal with a short point. The lateral sepals are in loose contact with the galea, erect or backswept, have thread-like tips long and a curved V-shaped sinus between their bases. The labellum is long, about wide, brown, curved and protrudes prominently above the sinus. Flowering occurs from April to June.
Taxonomy and naming.
"Pterostylis longicurva" was first formally described in 1941 by Herman Rupp from a specimen collected near Upper Horton. The description was published in "Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium". The specific epithet ("longicurva") is derived from the Latin words "longus" meaning "long" and "curvus" meaning "bent".
Distribution and habitat.
The long-tongued greenhood grows on shady slopes in forest from Coonabarabran in New South Wales to south-east Queensland.


Parmotrema austrosinense

Parmotrema austrosinense is a widely distributed species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was first officially described as a species of "Parmelia" by Austrian botanist Alexander Zahlbruckner in 1930. Mason Hale transferred it to "Parmotrema" in 1974.


Mycosphaerella platanifolia

Mycosphaerella platanifolia is a fungal plant pathogen.


Dongmolla silvestrii


Arctostaphylos insularis

Arctostaphylos insularis is a species of manzanita known by the common name island manzanita. It is endemic to Santa Cruz Island, one of the Channel Islands of California.
Description.
"Arctostaphylos insularis" is a large, spreading shrub reaching over tall and known to exceed in width. It has waxy, reddish bark and the smaller twigs sometimes have bristly glandular hairs. The leaves are shiny green and smooth, generally oval in shape and slightly convex, and up to about long. The shrub blooms in many dense clustered inflorescences of urn-shaped flowers. The fruit is an orange-brown drupe up to wide.
Habitat.
"Arctostaphylos insularis" grows in the chaparral, oak woodland, and coastal pine forest habitat of its native island.


Orient Beach State Park

Orient Beach State Park is a state park located in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. The park is at the tip of the North Fork of Long Island.
Long Beach, located within the park, was designated a National Natural Landmark in April 1980 for its sand spit beach demonstrating plant succession from salt marsh to maritime red cedar forest.
The Orient Long Beach Bar Light, commonly known as Bug Light, is located inside the park.
Recreation.
The park offers of bay frontage, and includes a beach, picnic tables with pavilions, a playground, recreation programs, a nature trail, hiking and biking (rentals available), fishing and a food concession. The park is open throughout the year for day-use only.
Restrictions on boat access.
In 1997, park rangers began enforcing an existing no boating policy on Long Beach, leading to controversy and ticketing in 2000. State officials contended that renewed enforcement was enacted to protect the beach's value as a protected sanctuary for endangered birds such as the piping plover, in addition to preserving the beach's unusual maritime red cedar forest and other rare plants.
Flora and fauna.
There is a common and roseate tern nesting area in the park. There are also eelgrass beds offshore.


Bryobium queenslandicum

Bryobium queenslandicum, commonly known as the dingy urchin orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic clump-forming orchid that has cylindrical, fleshy green pseudobulbs, each with two leaves and between three and twelve small, self-pollinating, cream-coloured or pinkish flowers. This orchid only occurs in tropical North Queensland.
Description.
"Bryobium queenslandicum" is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb that forms dense clumps with crowded, cylindrical pseudobulbs long and wide. Each pseudobulb has two lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves long and wide. Between three and twelve cream-coloured or pinkish, resupinate flowers about long and wide are arranged on a flowering stem long. The flowers are cup-shaped, self-pollinating and hairy on the outside. The sepal and petals are about long and wide. The labellum is about long and wide with three lobes. The side lobes are erect and the middle lobe turns downward with two ridges near the base. Flowering occurs from August to October.
Taxonomy and naming.
The dingy urchin orchid was first formally described in 1948 by Trevor Edgar Hunt who gave it the name "Eria queenslandica" and published the description in "The North Queensland Naturalist". The type specimen was collected by John Henry Wilkie who collected in on Mount Bellenden Ker. In 2002 Mark Clements and David Jones changed the name to "Bryobium queenslandicum".
Distribution and habitat.
"Bryobium queenslandicum" grows on trees and rocks in rainforest between the McIlwraith Range and the Tully River.


Actinotus forsythii

Actinotus forsythii, the pink flannel flower or ridge flannel flower), is a plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the east coast of Australia, and found in New South Wales and Victoria
There are no synonyms.
Description.
"Actinotus forsythii" is a wiry herbaceous perennial with stems to 50 cm long, which trail along on the ground. The leaves are 3–7 partite, with the leaf blades from 6.4–18 mm long, by 10 mm wide, on petioles which are 4.5–20 mm long. The umbels are head-like, and from 7.5–20 mm in diameter including the bracts, with the male flowers circling up to 60 female flowers on peduncles which are 3.8–10.3 cm long. The bracts are elliptic and about 7 mm by 1.5–2 mm wide, white to pink and silky hairy above, green and hairless below. The male flowers have small and obtuse sepals and papery petals and are about 0.3 mm long. The female flowers have tiny sepals which form a skirt on the summit of the ovary and have no petals.
It flowers from January to May.
Habitat.
It is found in damp areas in eucalypt forests and heaths on shallow soils on sandstone.


Ficus crassiuscula

Ficus crassiuscula is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to Central America and north-western parts of South America (Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru and Venezuela). It was first described in 1917.


Pushmataha Wildlife Management Area

Pushmataha Wildlife Management Area is a scientifically managed preserve of native flora and fauna in northern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, five miles (8 km) south of Clayton, Oklahoma. It is managed by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
The Pushmataha WMA comprises , over , all of it in the Kiamichi Mountains. Its predominant characteristics are a mixture of oak/pine forest with steep slopes, shallow soils and rocky terrain.
Scientific management of native habitats is pursued in earnest in the WMA, which is home to one of the longest-running multi-year research projects in southeastern Oklahoma. Spanning almost 30 years is a research project examining the response of vegetation to fire frequency. The project occupies of the area, and is called the Pushmataha Forest Habitat Research Demonstration Area.
Burnings take place as well to improve the timber stand and produce native wildlife foods, another area of study.
History.
The WMA dates from 1947, when the State of Oklahoma purchased and established it as a deer preserve. At the time, the state's deer herd had been overhunted and had dropped to less than 500 animals. The state wildlife department nurtured a herd of native deer in the WMA and began exporting it to other parts of Oklahoma. The effort was very successful, and controlled hunts were allowed in its territory by the 1960s.
Today the deer herd in the WMA is at a buck-to-deer ratio of 1:2.5.
Elk has been reintroduced to the WMA, beginning in 1969. A total of 72 head of elk were captured at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and brought to the Pushmataha WMA. By 2000 the herd had prospered--today it numbers approximately 40 animals--but its genetic diversity had suffered, causing an additional eight head of elk to be imported. Several had radio telemetry collars attached, and have yielded surprising data: young bulls, as example, travel over per week.
Plants.
Over 450 varieties of native plants have been cataloged in the WMA. Tree species include shortleaf pine, post oak, red oak, black oak, hickory, elm, blackgum, sweetgum, rusty blackhaw ("Viburnum rufidulum"), flowering dogwood, and hawthorn ("Crataegus"). There is also an abundance of high bush huckleberry, low bush huckleberry, different types of sumac, coralberry, poison ivy, greenbrier, blackberry and others.
Animals.
Among the game species found in the WMA are whitetail deer, bobwhite quail, eastern wild turkeys, cottontail rabbits, coyote, bobcat, opossum, skunk, raccoon, dove, wood duck, mallards, woodcock, fox squirrel, and game squirrel.
Nongame species include Bachman's sparrow, brown creeper, owls, particularly screech owls, and eastern wood pewee.
Approximately of rain fall per year in the WMA.
See also.
List of Oklahoma Wildlife Management Areas


Charles River Reservation

The Charles River Reservation is a urban preserve and public recreation area located along the banks of the Charles River in Boston, Cambridge, Watertown, and Newton, Massachusetts. The reservation is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The portion of the reservation between the Charles River Dam and the Eliot Bridge is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. This includes the park in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston known as the Esplanade.
The Charles River above the Watertown Dam is managed as the Upper Charles River Reservation.
Features.
Features of the reservation include the Charles River Dam, the Charles River Basin, the Boston and Cambridge Esplanades, and John F. Kennedy Park.
Charles River Dam.
The 1978 Charles River Dam, located behind the TD Garden, controls the water level in the river basin. An earlier dam (see Charles River Dam Bridge), located beneath the Museum of Science, was completed in 1910 with the purpose of creating a fresh water river basin and riverfront park in Boston and Cambridge. As part of the dam construction, fill was added between the Longfellow Bridge and Charlesgate and dedicated as the Boston Embankment, now universally known as the Esplanade. The modern dam houses six pumps that provide flood control protection. The dam's lock system permits travel of recreational and commercial vessels from the river to the harbor year round. A fish passage allows for passage of anadromous fish (alewife, rainbow smelt and shad) during the migration season in late spring.
Charles River Basin and Esplanades.
Created in 1910 by damming the formerly tidal river and permanently flooding the tidal marshes and mud flats, the Charles River Basin was designed to provide a "water park" for city dwellers, with access to outstanding river scenery and recreational opportunities on both water and land.
The character of the Basin changes along this stretch, forming three discernible zones: the Lower Basin, from the 1910 Charles River Dam to the Boston University Bridge; the Middle Basin, from the BU Bridge to Herter Park, and the Upper Basin, from Herter Park to the Watertown Dam. The Lower Basin is long and up to wide. The panoramas in the Lower Basin define the image of Boston and Cambridge. The Longfellow Bridge is a powerful presence in the Lower Basin, as are the slope of Beacon Hill and the gold dome of the State House. Particular park sections within the reservation, such as Magazine Beach and Herter Park, provide intensely used open space for the bordering urban neighborhoods.
The Middle Basin is a zone of transition from urban and formal to rural and more natural. Parkways lining the Charles River Basin separate the esplanades in Boston and Cambridge from the nearby neighborhoods. The largest open space is between the Harvard University athletic fields on the south and Mount Auburn and Cambridge cemeteries on the north. Together, these areas form a critical oasis for migrating birds.
Frederick Law Olmsted's 1889 design for Charlesbank created the first public space along the river. It included a promenade along the water's edge, as well as the first public outdoor gymnasiums in the United States, one for women and girls near the Longfellow Bridge and one for men and boys near Leverett Street (now Leverett Circle).
John F. Kennedy Park.
The John F. Kennedy Park located near Harvard Square is landscaped with plants that bloom at the time of the President's May birthday and a memorial fountain. The park, designed by Carol R. Johnson Associates of Boston, uses materials indigenous to New England including native trees, and the granite fountain and the entrance pillars are inscribed with quotations from the President's speeches.
Riverbend Park.
Riverbend Park extends on the north side of the Charles, from the Eliot Bridge to Western Ave. in Cambridge. In 1974 Isabella Halsted (who lived on Memorial Drive) circulated a letter asking if neighbors would support closing the Drive to vehicles on Sundays from spring to fall. She may have been familiar with the closing of sections of Rock Creek Parkway in Washington, D.C. A portion of the drive was blocked off for the first time the following year. For nine years, the private Trust for Riverbend Park raised funds to cover the cost of the road closing. In 1985 the state legislature authorized and funded the permanent closing of the road from April to November.
Recreation.
The reservation's multiple recreational opportunities include cycling on the Charles River Bike Paths, motorized and non-motorized boating, playgrounds, picnicking, swimming pools, tennis courts, ice skating, and concerts at the Hatch Memorial Shell. Sailboat rentals are offered through the non-profit Community Boating, Inc. A quarter mile (400 meter) Braille trail is located in Watertown, near the foot of Irvine Street.


Aspidodiadema annulatum

Aspidodiadema annulatum is a species of sea urchin of the family Aspidodiadematidae. Their armour is covered with spines. It is placed in the genus Aspidodiadema and lives in the sea. Aspidodiadema annulatum was first scientifically described in 1927 by Koehler.


Barringtonia havilandii

Barringtonia havilandii is a tree of the Lecythidaceae family endemic to Borneo. Its habitat is inland riverine forests.


Androlaelaps fahrenholzi

Androlaelaps fahrenholzi is a species of mite in the genus "Androlaelaps" of the family Laelapidae. It occurs throughout the contiguous United States, where it has been recorded on the following mammals:


Greigia sylvicola

Greigia sylvicola is a plant species in the genus "Greigia". This species is native to Panama and Costa Rica.


Tappan Square

Tappan Square is a public park and National Historic Landmark at the center of Oberlin, Ohio. The park initially opened in 1885, on of city-owned land at the bequest of Oberlin College benefactor Charles Martin Hall. It was designed by the esteemed duo of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and John Charles Olmsted. The square in Oberlin was named in the 1940s, in honor of Arthur and Lewis Tappan, wealthy merchants of New York City who supported Oberlin College in its early days and who were ardent abolitionists. The square was previously known as College Park or the Campus. Until 1965 it held the Historic Elm, under which John Jay Shipherd and Philo Stewart were said to have knelt and prayed to God and on which spot they decided to found the town. The square held college buildings for many years, including a five-story brick college classroom and men's dormitory called Tappan Hall. As the buildings on the square grew older, the area was cleaned up as a green space for the community, removing the buildings, in accordance with the provisions of the will of Charles Martin Hall.
History.
The site was founded by the presbyterian ministers John Jay Shipherd and Philo Stewart who declared their new community at the elm on the park's southeast corner. The historic elm remained on the square until disease expedited its removal in 1965. A year later, Tappan Square was granted landmark status. The park is named after Arthur Tappan, a 19th-century abolitionist who financially sustained the college in its early years. Initially known as "the Campus," the square was home to several college buildings. At the bequest of 1885 alumnus and ALCOA founder Charles Martin Hall, the buildings were removed in order to designate the center of campus as a center for both students and community members. To this day, the only structures that remain in the square are the Clark Bandstand and the Memorial Arch.
The site hosts many events, for both the college and community. Among the more common are festivals, bonfires, rallies, concerts, vigils, and marches, but Tappan also provides a home for Commencement, Oberlin Folk Fest, Local Foods Festival, OSCA bonfire, Beltane, and Juneteenth. It also houses the Oberlin Rocks, which can be painted on at any time by college students, and a small group of albino squirrels, Oberlin's unofficial mascot. Events in Tappan are free and geared toward building community between college students and Oberlin residents.
The Memorial Arch.
Oberlin College originally included a department of theology, whose students worked as missionaries worldwide. One particular common site for Oberlin-trained missions was China's Shansi province. In 1899, several dozen Oberlin missionaries were murdered during the Boxer Rebellion, led by a group of Chinese nationalists. Recently, a plaque has been added to the Arch to honor the Chinese nationals who also were killed in the violence.
The Oberlin Rocks.
The two largest boulders in Tappan's south corners were placed in 1897 and 1933. The southwest corner's rock contains a plaque reading "Glacial boulder of granitoid gneiss from eastern Canada, excavated from 10 feet below the surface of the northwest corner of Professor and Morgan streets and placed here by the class of '98 during the night of Dec. 3 1897." The other rock, known as the "Founders Boulder", was found in Erie County and has a plaque that reads "In Memory of John J. Shipherd, Philo P. Stewart, Dedicated June 17, 1933." However, both plaques have been covered by hundreds of layers of paint by students and town residents and are currently invisible. The rocks first started their tenure as "public billboards" in the 1960s and soon even college officials joined in the tradition of painting the rocks. Today, they can be painted by anyone at absolutely anytime.


Claoxylon longifolium

Claoxylon longifolium is a species of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is found in Assam, South-East Asia, New Guinea and Caroline Islands.


Eucalyptus albida

Eucalyptus albida, commonly known as the white-leaved mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth white or greyish brown bark, lance shaped adult leaves, and flowers in groups of between seven and eleven. The flowers are creamy white and the fruit are hemispherical to cone-shaped. The juvenile leaves that are often retained on mature plants are arranged in opposite pairs, egg-shaped to heart-shaped and bluish grey.
Description.
"Eucalyptus albida" is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and has smooth white or greyish brown bark. The leaves on young plants are arranged in opposite pairs, egg-shaped to heart-shaped, the same shade of bluish grey on both sides, long and wide. Juvenile leaves are often present on mature plants. The adult leaves are lance-shaped, glossy dark green on both sides, long and wide.
The flower buds are arranged on a branching inflorescence, each branch with groups of between seven and eleven buds on a peduncle long, each bud on a pedicel long. The buds are spindle-shaped with a conical, blunt-tipped operculum long, about the same length as the floral cup. The flowers are creamy white. Flowering occurs between November and January and the fruit is hemispherical or cone-shaped, long and wide.
Taxonomy.
"Eucalyptus albida" was first formally described in 1925 by Joseph Maiden and William Blakely and the description was published in "Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales". The type specimen was collected near Harrismith by Charles Gardner. The specific epithet ("albida") is taken from the Latin word "albidus" meaning "whitish" in reference to the colour of the juvenile leaves.
Distribution.
White-leaved mallee grows in sand, often with gravel and over laterite, in kwongan and shrubland. It is found from Tammin and Narrogin east to Hyden and Ravensthorpe with a disjunct population near Badgingarra.
Conservation.
This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Uses.
The juvenile leaves or coppice regrowth of this species is used by florists as a filler in dried flower arrangements and is referred to as rustle gum. The plant is drought and frost resistant in cultivation.


Acacia comans

Acacia comans is a shrub of the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Plurinerves" that is native to an area along the west coast of western Australia.
Description.
The shrub typically grows to a height of and has a spreading habit. It has slightly ribbed and terete branchlets that are densely covered with straight spreading hairs and have acicular and persistent stipules with a length of . Like most species of "Acacia" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The sessile, rigid and evergreen phyllodes have a widely elliptic to oblong shape and are inequilateral with a length of and a width of and have three to four distant and raised main nerves. It blooms from June to September and produces yellow flowers.
Taxonomy.
The species was first formally described by the botanist William Vincent Fitzgerald in 1904 as part of the work "Additions to the West Australian Flora" as published in the "Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society". It was reclassified as "Racosperma comans" by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus "Acacia" in 2006.
Distribution.
It is native to an area in the Mid West region of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on sandplains growing in sandy soils. The shrubs range extends from around Geraldton in the north to around Coorow in the south.


Calamus caryotoides

Calamus caryotoides (also "Palmijuncus caryotoides"), more commonly known as fishtail lawyer cane is a North-East Queensland tropical forest climbing palm with very thin () flexible trunks; no crownshaft; small spikes; dark green, glossy, fish-tail shaped leaves reaching up to high ( spread); and very thin hooked flagella.
It tends to clump and grow up into the shaded understory of Queensland's wet tropical forests, and is a close relative of the more infamous "Calamus radicalis" (aka Wait-a-While).
The Cairns Botanical Gardens records local Yidinydji, Yirrganyydji, Djabuganydji, and Gungganydji use "Calamus caryotoides" (also known to Yidinydji as Bugul, pronounced BOOK-KOOL) as follows:
"The thin flexible trunks of this (and other) climbing palm made ideal building frames, or rope and string when split. The young shoots were eaten to cure headaches."


Entandrophragma utile

Entandrophragma utile, called the sipo or utile, is a species of large tree in the genus "Entandrophragma", native to nearly all of tropical Africa facing the Atlantic, from Guinea to Angola, and as far east as Uganda. The timber is traded as a tropical hardwood. It is sometimes called sipo mahogany. It shares many of the characteristics of genuine mahogany and is used as an alternative.


Euscorpius mingrelicus

Euscorpius mingrelicus are scorpions formerly classified in the family Chactidae.
Description.
"E. mingrelicus" individuals are dark in colour and reach lengths of 38 mm. They are difficult to distinguish from other "Euscorpius" spp. such as "E. gamma" and "E. germanus". This species' biology is not well known. Their venom is believed to be mild, with local effects only.
Distribution and habitat.
"E. mingrelicus" is distributed through Anatolia (including Turkey, Syria, and Georgia) and Eastern Europe, with populations from Russia to Italy. This species' full distribution is uncertain, owing in part to possible misidentifications. They are found in humid, mountainous areas and forests, and have been reported in Austrian river valleys. "E. mingrelicus" may hide under stones and other objects, such as logs or beneath the bark of dead trees.


Brissopsis bengalensis

Brissopsis bengalensis is a species of sea urchins of the Family Brissidae. Their armour is covered with spines. "Brissopsis bengalensis" was first scientifically described in 1914 by Koehler.


Acacia palustris

Acacia palustris, commonly known as needlewood, is a tree or shrub belonging to the genus "Acacia" and the subgenus "Juliflorae" that is native to an arid area of western Australia
Description.
The gnarled and pungent tree or shrub typically grows to a height of and has glabrous branchlet. Like most species of "Acacia" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The vertically deflexed phyllodes tend to be terete and straight with a length of and a width of . The long-tapering acuminate and glabrous phyllodes are quite rigid and pungent and have sixteen closely parallel and raised nerves.
Distribution.
It is native to Pilbara, Gascoyne and Mid West regions of Western Australia where it is known to grow in quartzite, and granitic soils and is often found along watercourses and swampy areas. It has a discontinuous distribution and is found from around Pingandy Station along the Ashburton River in the north down to around Murgoo Station and the Murchison River in the south where it is often situated on loamy alluvial plains as a part of shrubland communities where it is usually associated with "Acacia aneura".


Barbosella crassifolia

Barbosella crassifolia is a species of orchid endemic to Brazil.
Distribution.
Found in southern and eastern Brazil in dense primary forests at an elevation of 950 to 1500 meters. It is known from the states of Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo.
Description.
"Barbosella crassifolia" is a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, mat forming epiphyte with ascending ramicauls enveloped by a thin, tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, prostrate, thickly coriaceous, suborbicular to elliptical, entire apically, obtuse rounded, rounded and contracted below into the nearly absent petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, erect, 0.6 to 1.12" [1.5 to .8 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence with a minute bract below the middle and an oblique floral bract.


Shedd Park (Lowell, Massachusetts)

Shedd Park is a public park in Lowell, Massachusetts. It is located off Rogers Street (Route 38) and flanked by Boylston Street and Knapp Avenue in the Belvidere section of the city. It includes multiple baseball fields, tennis/basketball courts, a pavilion, and a water park. In combination with Fort Hill and the Lowell Cemetery, Shedd Park is one of the largest urban green spaces in the Greater Lowell area.
The park was made possible in part through the contribution of $100,000 from the estate of Freeman B. Shedd. His wife, Amy, died in 1924 and his daughter had died in 1921 without having any children. This money allowed the city to develop the park which he had donated in 1910. The Shedd Park Field House was built in 1927 and on October 29, 2016 it was dedicated and renamed the John D. Lord Pavilion.