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Filter: Creator Name of Lapham, Increase Allen
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch of a cross-section of the Dells of the Wisconsin River. People are in a row boat in the center. Caption at bottom: "The Dells — Wisconsin Riv... |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham of Carex Varia. It is a genus of plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges. Other members of the Cyperaceae fami... |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham of Eriophorum Gracile. It is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is known by the common name slende... |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham of Scirpus Pungens. It is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name Common Three-Square. It is a... |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham of Carex Cyperaceae. Memebers of this family of plants are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called "true"... |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Drawings of Datura Stramonium, more commonly known by the names jimson weed, devil's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkwe... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham drawings of Poa pratensis, Festuca duriuscula, Lolium prenne, Alopecurus pratensis, Anthoxanthum odoratum |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Page from Increase Lapham's 1935 botanical diary in which he listed plants he observed in flower stage. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Page from Increase Lapham's 1838 botanical diary in which he listed plants he observed in flower stage. |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Setaris Italica or foxtail millet and Panicum miliaceum or proso millet. There are also inset drawings of a spik... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Handwritten list of plants in the Ranunculaceae or crowfoot family. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Page from Increase Lapham's 1845 list of plants of Wisconsin including Oxalidaceae, Zanthoxylaceae, and Anacardiaceae and notations of where and when indiv... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Title page of Increase Lapham's A catalog of Plants & Shells, Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee on the West Side of Lake Michigan, |
| Date: | 07 22 1837 |
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| Description: | Table printed in Milwaukee Advertiser indicating the time of flowering of several wild plants at Milwaukee and near the head of the Pishtaka River. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Title page of Increase Lapham's Catalog of Plants Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Oryzopsis asperifolia or Mountain Rice (Rough-Leaved Rice Grass). |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Zizania aquatica. The plant's common name is Northern Wild Rice. |
| Date: | 09 1870 |
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| Description: | The first page of a handwritten lecture titled "On the Classification of Plants" by Increase Lapham. |
| Date: | 02 1876 |
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| Description: | The cover page of a speech handwritten by Increase Lapham titled: "On the Law of Embryonic Development Showing that it is the Same in Plants as in Animals.... |
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