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Article: Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora is ON-LINE
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- Castanea
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Southern Appalachian Botanical Society Dec 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora, a significantly augmented and somewhat revised version of edition III of the Atlas of the Virginia Flora (hardcopy 1992), is now available on the Virginia Tech website at http://www.biol.vt.edu/digital_atlas. The Atlas project for the Virginia flora was initiated by Alton M. Harvill, Jr., of Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia, in the mid 1970s. With assistance from a group of other Virginia botanists who were also collecting extensively in the state, Harvill produced three hardcopy editions of the Atlas (1977/1981, 1986, and 1992). Following Dr. Harvill's retirement, this group [which he had named and incorporated as the Virginia Botanical ...