Daily Archives: October 26, 2017


Thursday, November 9, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Global Flora: We’re On Our Way!

With a focus on diversity of form, and various microhabitats in the Dry House and Wet House at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, Global Flora will be a unique resource for experiencing and studying botanical wonders. Botanic Gardens Director Kristina Jones will go over the details of the project and answer questions. If you have favorite flora of fabulous form, please be ready to suggest them, as the list of taxa for initial inclusion is not yet closed. The event will take place in the greenhouses on Thursday, November 9 from 10 – 12. Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens free, nonmembers $10. Register by emailing wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu, or call 781-283-3094.


Friday, November 3, 6:45 pm – Green Eggs and A.m (Ambystoma maculatum)

On Friday, November 3, Dr. Louise Lewis, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, will present a lecture at the New England Botanical Club meeting entitled Green Eggs and A.m (Ambystoma maculatum).  Ambystoma maculatum is more widely known as the spotted salamander. Meetings at Harvard University are held in Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (door to right of Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance) Free and open to the pubic. For more information on the New England Botanical Club, visit http://www.rhodora.org.