Ericaceae

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  • A family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family. Ericaceae is made up mostly of shrubs and small trees, and its members are widely distributed, extending into the subarctic and along mountain chains through the tropics.

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        2 Archival description results for Ericaceae

        Cowan, John MacQueen (1892-1960)
        GB 235 RBG/2/COW · Collection · 1892 - 1960
        Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

        5 maps: Baghdad, Resht, Teheran, Tabriz and India and the adjacent countries.
        1 box of personal and miscellaneous papers

        • includes paper on 'A Survey of the Anatomy of the Rhododendron Leaf in relation to the Taxonomy of the Genus' by S.F. Hayes, J. Keenan and J.M. Cowan : for publication in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 21 (1), 1–34.
        • 'The Rhododendrons of India' by J.M. Cowan.
         Cowan, John MacQueen