1981-1990

PUBLICATIONS 1981–1990, EXCLUDING MICROTECHNIQUE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND COMPUTERS
  1. 1981 A note on New Caledonian Epacridaceae. Blumea 27:217-221. 21 May.
  2. 1981 The orchids, by R. L. Dressler. Syst. Bot. 6:308-311. July-Sep. [Book review, with bibliography.]
  3. 1981 Floral and fruit anatomy of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis). Boxwood Bull. 21:25-28. Oct. [Reissue, sans figures, of item #28 above.]
  4. 1981 Ewers, F. W. & R. Schmid. Longevity of needle fascicles of Pinus longaeva (bristlecone pine) and other North American pines. Oecologia (Berlin) 51:107-115. Oct.
  5. 1982 (Beck, C. B., K. Coy & R. Schmid). Observations on the fine structure of Callixylon wood. Amer. J. Bot. 69:54-76. Jan.
  6. 1982 Descriptors used to indicate abundance and frequency in ecology and systematics. Taxon 31:89-94. Feb.
  7. 1982 Fruit. McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology, 5th ed., 5:740-746. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. [Revised and substantially expanded from versions by R. M. Brooks in previous editions (1960-77).]
  8. 1982 Beck, C. B., R. Schmid & G. W. Rothwell. Stelar morphology and the primary vascular system of seed plants. Bot. Rev. 48:691-815, 913-931. Oct.-Dec. (issued 27 Apr. 1983).
  9. 1982 The terminology and classification of steles: Historical perspective and the outlines of a system. Bot. Rev. 48:817-931. Oct.-Dec. (issued 27 Apr. 1983).
  10. 1983 Septal nectaries in Asterogyne martiana and other Palmae. Principes 27:168-174. Oct.
  11. 1983 Which-hunting, or whatever happened to that? Taxon 32:621-622. Nov. 
  12. 1984 Schmid, R. & P. Baas. 1984. The occurrence of scalariform perforation plants and helical vessel wall thickenings in wood of Myrtaceae. IAWA Bull., n.s., 5:197-215. Undated (issue 3 of 4, but issued 5 Sep.). 
  13. 1984 (Schmid, R., S. Carlquist, L. D. Hufford & G. L. Webster). Systematic anatomy of Oceanopapaver, a monotypic genus of the Capparaceae from New Caledonia. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 89:119-152. Sep.
  14. 1984 Naturae novitates, 1879-1944: Its publication and intercontinental transit times mirror European history. Taxon 33:636-654. Nov. [Excerpt in Curr. Contents 1985(10):12.]
  15. 1984 Reproductive anatomy and morphology of Myrtales in relation to systematics. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 71:832-835. Undated (issue 3 of 4, but issued 19 Apr. 1985).
  16. 1985 Functional interpretations of the morphology and anatomy of septal nectaries. Acta Bot. Neerl. 34:125-128. Feb.
  17. 1985 Ewers, F. W. & R. Schmid. The fate of the dwarf shoot apex in bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). Amer. J. Bot. 72:509-513. Apr.
  18. 1985 On the reification and deification of the stelar concept; additional comment on Tomlinson. Taxon 34:271-274. May.
  19. 1985 The debt of humour in science to Lewis Carroll. Jabberwocky: J. Lewis Carroll Soc. 14:53-59. Summer (issued summer 1987). [Reissued, with new appendix; see items #60 and #66 below.]
  20. 1985 HI-IAPT Portraits of botanists no. 100. Philippe Douard Lon van Tieghem. Taxon34:188-189. Feb.
  21. 1985 Schmid, R. & S. E. Ruzin. Der Borgnino-Typus der Sprossarchitektur. Naturwiss. Rundschau (Stuttgart)38:154-155. Apr. [Spoof article. Translated into English. see item #35 below.]
  22. 1985 (Rothwell, G. W., C. B. Beck & R. Schmid). Objective science or evolutionary speculation?a reply to P. B. Tomlinson. Taxon34:269-271. May.
  23. 1985 Sexismus in der Botanik. Trans. by Roswitha Schmid. Naturwiss. Rundschau.38:389-390. Sep. [Translation of item #9 above.]
  24. 1986 Léon Croizat’s standing among biologists: Croizat’s Panbiogeography & Principia botanica, by R. C. Craw & G. W. Gibbs (ed.). Cladistics: Int. J. Willi Hennig Soc. 2:105-111. Winter. [Essay review, with bibliography and new analytical information.] 
  25. 1986 Comments on the printing and availability of theses and dissertations (especially European). Taxon 35:101-105. Feb.
  26. 1986 Intercontinental and transcontinental mail transit times from Europe to Berkeley, 1892 to 1941. Arch. Nat. Hist. 13:141-154. June.
  27. 1986 On Cornerian and other terminology of angiospermous and gymnospermous seed coats: Historical perspective and terminological recommendations. Taxon 35:476-491. Aug.
  28. 1986 (Baas, P., R. Schmid & B. J. van Heuven). Wood anatomy of Pinus longaeva (bristlecone pine) and the sustained length-on-age increase of its tracheids. IAWA Bull., n.s., 7:221-228. Undated (issue 3 of 4).
  29. 1986 Comment on the bibliography of Flora Hawaiiensis by Mill et al. Taxon35:314-315. May.
  30. 1987 (Schmid, R. & D. W. Stevenson).  Botanical text books  an unpublished manuscript (1897) by Emily Lovira Gregory (1841-1897) on plant anatomy textbooks. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 114:307-318. July-Sep.
  31. 1987 Annotated bibliography of works by and about Emily Lovira Gregory (1841-1897). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 114:319-324. July-Sep.
  32. 1987 Some nomenclatural and terminological aspects of jojoba. Jojoba Happenings 15(4):9. July-Aug.
  33. 1988 Reproductive versus extra-reproductive nectaries; historical perspective and terminological recommendations. Bot. Rev. 54:179-232. Apr.-June.
  34. 1988 Citation analytic study of Gunnar Erdtman’s major works on palynology: Comments on bibliographic confusion. Grana 27:159-163. 30 Sep.
  35. 1988  Takhtajan’s latest system of classification for the angiosperms: Sistema Magnoliophytov, by A. Takhtajan. Taxon37:422-424. May. [Essay review, with bibliography and new analytical information.] 
  36. 1988 Professor Rogers returns. Taxon 37:987-988. Nov.
  37. 1989  The debt of humour in science to Lewis Carroll. Pp. 5-8 in E. Garfield, Humor in science: The Lewis Carroll connection. Curr. Comments 1989(4):3-8. 23 Jan. [Reissue, with new appendix, of item #50 above; also reissued as item #66.] 
  38. 1989 Bibliographic comment on Roos’s monograph on Drynarioideae (Polypodiaceae). Taxon38:609-610. Nov.
  39. 1990  [Botanical juvenilia I:] Some recent botany books for children and young adults, especially the artistry of Carol Lerner and Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden. Taxon 39:81-92. Feb. [Essay review; updated; see item #63 below.] 
  40. 1990 The fascination with carnivorous plants in juvenile literature. Carnivorous Pl. Newslett. 19:32-40. Mar.
  41. 1990 Botany books for young people: A retrospective look by a botanist at the 1980’s and at the artistry of Carol Lerner and Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden. Appraisal: Science books for young people 23(2):1-18. Spring. [Update of item #61 above.]
  42. 1990 Wall charts (Wandtafeln) remembrance of things past: The botanical atlas, by D. McAlpine. Taxon39:471-472. Aug. [Essay review with new analytical information.]