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Plants of the Chicago Region (3.103210)
Date: 1974Creator: Swink, Floyd
Type: Book
Description:This check list is an alphabetical index listing all the vascular plants that have been found growing wild in the Chicago area--in other words, a list of those plants which constitute the local flora. It is arranged for quick reference like a dictionary or encyclopedia so that plants may be looked up by either their scientific names or their common names. It attempts to supply the following kinds of information about each plant listed:
Other scientific names by which the plant is known in the manuals commonly used by Chicago area botanists.
Common names, if any, by which the plant is known.
Origin of the plant if it is not native to the Chicago region.
Counties within the Chicago region where the plant has been found growing wild.
Kinds of habitats in which the plant has been found growing in the Chicago region.
Other plants found growing in association with the plant in various habitats in the Chicago region, in cases where this information is available.
Current problems in regard to the taxonomy of the plant, where such problems have come to the author's attention.
Extent: xxiv, 474 p.
Plants of the Chicago Region (3.103211)
Date: 1979Creator: Swink, Floyd
Type: Book
Description:This book is principally an annotated checklist of the spontaneous vascular plant taxa of the Chicago Region, including distribution maps and identification keys. In addition it includes a section describing a method applicable to the Chicago Region for the environmental assessment of open lands from a vegetational standpoint.
Extent: lxxiii, 922 p. : ill. 24 cm.
Woody Plants of the Morton Arboretum (3.103318)
Date: 1972Type: Book
Description:This handlist is an index, listing alphabetically by genus and species all the scientific names under which living woody plants are currently being grown out-of-doors at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, U.S.A.
Includes a fold-out map at the back of the book.
Extent: xiii, 250 p.
Charles C. Deam (1865-1953): An Uncommon Common Man (3.10648)
Date: December 21 1972 – March 20 1973Creator: Doty, Carol L.
Type: Article
Excerpts from Letters written by Charles Clemon Deam to Floyd Swink between 1947 and 1951 with comments by Floyd Swink (3.10649)
Date: December 21 1972 – March 20 1973Type: Article
Floyd Swink: Typist Turned Taxonomist (3.10650)
Date: December 21 1972 – March 20 1973Creator: Doty, Carol L.
Type: Article
Our Local Poisonous Plants: How Poisonous Are they? (3.10780)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1977Creator: Swink, Floyd, Farnsworth, Norman
Type: Article
Orphans in the Plant World: Examples of Monotypic Families (3.10802)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1978Creator: Swink, Floyd, Hall, Marion Trufant, Hess, William J.
Type: Article
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 01 (3.34467)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Argument for an Old Bog (1-7)
- “Fantasy in a Wood-Block” (8-9)
- Arbor Day Thoughts (10-11)
- Maidenhair Tree, Ginkgo biloba: Ginkgo Family (Ginkgoaceae) (12-13)
- News & c: Research Notes/ People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (14-15)
- The Lookout (16)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 02 (3.34468)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Living Footnotes in a Garden (17-26)
- Research Notes/ Climatological Summary (27-29)
- Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa: Beech Family (Fagaceae) (30-31)
- The Unexpected Drop-In (32)
(links to these articles can be found below under RELATED OBJECTS)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 03 (3.34469)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Immigrant Plants (33-39)
- Norway Maple, Acer platanoides: Maple Family (Aceraceae) (40-41)
- Impressions of Wolf Road Prairie (42-44)
- Research Notes/ People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (45-47)
- Acorns Large & Small (48)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 04 (3.34470)
Date: December 21 1974 – March 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- Site Changes and Root Damage: Some Problems with Oaks (49-53)
- Diagnosing and Preventing Diebacks and Declines of Urban Trees: Lessons From Some Forest Counterparts (54-59)
- Redbud, Cercis canadensis: Pea Family (Leguminosae) (60-61)
- People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (62-63)
- Of the Infirmities of Trees, & c. (64)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 01 (3.34471)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- Miyabe Maple: A Tree Worth Knowing More About (1-3)
- Focus: The Nature Study & Camera Club after ten Years (4-8)
- A Tree by Any Other Name…(Or: What is Behind Name Changes?) (9-13, 16)
- Cornelian Cherry Dogwood, Cornus mas: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) (14-15)
- Climatological Summary (16)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 02 (3.34472)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- “Nature City”: Translating the Natural Environment into Urban Language (17-22)
- American Plants in Porcelain Sculpture (23-25)
- I Loved a Frog Pond (26-27)
- Exploring a Pond in summer… (28-29)
- Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) (30-31)
- People and Projects/ Climatological Summary (32)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 03 (3.34473)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- The Rose: Plant and Symbol (33-37)
- Reading May Watts (38-41)
- Wild Plum, Prunus americana: Rose Family (Rosaceae) (42-43)
- The Origin of Halloween (44-45)
- People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (46-47)
- Autumn (48)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 04 (3.34474)
Date: December 21 1975 – March 20 1976Type: Serial
Description:
- I Envy the Goose (49-55)
- How to Learn from Nature (56-59)
- Downy Hawthorn, Crataegus mollis: Rose Family (Rosaceae) (60-61)
- Research Notes/ Climatological Summary (62-63)
- Ladies First (64)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 12 No. 01 (3.34475)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1976Type: Serial
Description:
- On the Nature & Pedigree of Garden Seeds (1-9)
- Humphry Marshall (1722-1801): Author of the First American Book on Trees (10-11)
- Washington Hawthorn, Cretaegus phaenopyrum: Rose Family (Rosaceae) (12-13)
- Q Readers Respond (14-15)
- People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (16)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 12 No. 02 (3.34476)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1976Type: Serial
Description:
- A Day with Aldo Leopold (17-21)
- Honey Locust, Gleditsia triacanthos: Legume Family (Leguminosae) (22-23)
- Early America in Plant Names (Part I) (24-29)
- People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (30-31)
- The Lookout (32)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 08 No. 04 (3.34580)
Date: December 21 1972 – March 20 1973Type: Serial
Description:
- A Taste of Wilderness: Arboretum Teens Explore the Manistee (49-53)
- Notes from the Sterling Morton Library (54-55)
- Arboretum News and Notes (56)
- Climatological Summary (56)
- Charles C. Deam (1865-1953): An Uncommon Common Man (57-58)
- Excerpts from Letters written by Charles Clemon Deam to Floyd Swink between 1947 and 1951 with comments by Floyd Swink (59-62)
- Floyd Swink: Typist Turned Taxonomist (62-64)
Extent: 16 pages
Manuscript: Woody Plants of the Morton Ar. 1972 Including maps, title page, cover, etc. (3.40002)
Date: July 28 1972Creator: Schulenberg, Ray, Swink, Floyd, Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Document
Description:Manuscript of "Woody Plants of the Morton Arboretum".
A Finding List of the Birds of The Morton Arboretum (3.57582)
Date: 1976Creator: Swink, Floyd
Type: Book
Seminar by Floyd Swink and Ray Schulenberg: Woody Plant Collections (3.60552)
Date: April 9 1973Type: Audio
Extent: 2 audio cassettes
Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), fruit detail (3.63704)
Date: September 1973Creator: Swink, Floyd
Type: Photographic image
Description:Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), closeup showing mature fruit, mostly red and in upright aggregate cluster at tip of twig amongst large green leaves on tree
Extent: 1 slide