Summary
During the XIXth century, the transfer of plants for various purposes became increasingly widespread and spanned the globe. The present study aims to inventory the potentially useful species which formed part of the two-way exchange between Brazil and England, based on the information found in the letters written by Auguste François Marie Glaziou, General Director of Forests and Gardens of the Imperial House in Rio de Janeiro and landscape artist to the Emperor, to botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. A total of 60 manuscripts housed in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew were analysed. Sixty three species from 32 botanical families were quoted as useful within the documentation. Plants were grouped into five use categories, according to the uses listed by Glaziou. The high number of taxa in the ornamental category reveals the great interest in ornamental plants on the part of both Glaziou and the Kew botanists.
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Notes
Letter addressed to Sr William Thiselton-Dyer on 16 June 1881.
Letter addressed to Sr William Thiselton-Dyer on 5 September 1892.
Letter to Sr William Thiselton-Dyer on 24 April 1880.
Letter to Sr William Thiselton-Dyer from 8 October 1897.
Letter sent to Sr William Thiselton-Dyer on 23 December 1880.
Letter sent to Sr Hooker on 5 May 1874.
Letter to Sr Thiselton-Dyer of 5 September 1892.
This manuscript belongs to the archives of Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle-Paris.
Letter to Sr William Thiselton-Dyer of 26 May 1891.
Letter to Sr William Thiselton-Dyer on 8 October 1879.
Letter sent to Sr William-Thiselton-Dyer on 9 May 1887.
Letter sent to Sr Morris on 21 January 1888.
Letter to Sr William Thiselton-Dyer on 16 June 1881.
Letter to Sr Joseph Dalton Hooker on 23 April 1875.
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We thank Monique Britto de Goes, Luiz José Soares Pinto and Daniela Zappi for their suggestions on an earlier draft of this manuscript; Lana Sylvestre and João Paulo Condack for nomenclatural corrections for ferns; the postgraduate programme in botany at the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) for their support and attention. This study was conducted within the framework of CNPq’s REFLORA programme and forms part of the doctoral thesis of the first author within the postgraduate programme in botany at the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The first author thanks CAPES for her doctoral grant and CNPq for the sandwich grant which enabled her visit to Kew. CNPq is also thanked for research productivity grants awarded to Dr Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte and Dra Luci de Senna Valle.
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de Brito, M.R., Lughadha, E.N., Duarte, L.F.D. et al. Exchange of useful plants between Brazil and England in the second half of the nineteenth century: Glaziou and the botanists of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Kew Bull 70, 4 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-014-9553-6
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