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Letter from G. E. Cheek, Principal and Jeanes Supervisor of Negro Schools, to S. B. Simmons. Letter from S. B. Simmons to G. E. Cheek
No full textLetter from G. E. Cheek, Principal and Jeanes Supervisor of Negro Schools, to S. B. Simmons, concerning picnic. Letter from S. B. Simmons to G. E. Cheek, concerning invitations to picnic
Letter from G. E. Cheek to S. B. Simons
No full textLetter from G. E. Cheek to S. B. Simons, concerning picnic
Oral History Interview with Pat Cheek, April 12, 1988
No full textInterview with schoolteacher and community activist Pat Cheek from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Cheek recollects her involvement as a member of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship in the 1960's and 1970's, as well as her memories of segregation, particularly in Denton. Cheek discusses her personal views and experiences when it comes to segregation, the street paving of the African American section in Denton, her decision to join the Fellowship, the group's activities, the involvement of husbands in group activities, the group's decision to disband, voter registration drives, and her lasting friendships
Butumia Cheek 2022
No full textSubgenus 2. Butumia (G.Taylor) Cheek comb. et stat. nov. Type species: Sapicolella marginalis (G.Taylor) Cheek. http://www.ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77297285-1 Basionym: Butumia G.Taylor, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 1: 55 (1952). Roots, crustose in centre, but mostly comprised of radiating, long, entire, rarely branched, broadly ribbon-like roots with numerous marginal shoots. Stems highly contracted, not visible. Leaves with sheathing base (where known), blade reduced, shorter than base, stipules present (where known). DISTRIBUTION. Guinea-Conakry, Nigeria, Cameroon. ETYMOLOGY. Taking the name of the basionym Butumia (itself named for the Butum River, Nigeria). Species 5 – 6: Sapicolella marginalis (G.Taylor) Cheek, S. deniseae CheekPublished as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on page 419, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/759936
Saxicolella ijim Cheek
No full text2. Saxicolella ijim Cheek sp. nov. Type: Cameroon, North West Region, Bamenda-Fundong, Anyajua, “ Waterfall near Ijim Project HQ ”, fl. fr., 12 Dec. 1998, Cheek et al. 9920 (holotype K [K000229622]; isotypes SCA, YA). http://www.ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77297282-1 Ledermanniella cf. musciformis sensu Cheek (Cheek et al. 2000: 69, 152) Perennial or annual herb, rosette-like, 7 – 8 cm diam. Root crustose in the central part of the plant, at the edge radiating and divided into separate, free, lobes, 0.5 – 0.8 cm wide (Fig. 2A). Stems (1 –) 2 – 6, arising from the crustose centre of the root rosette (absent from the radiating lobes), erect, free-standing, branched from the base, (1 –) 3 – 7 cm tall, spreading as wide as the root rosette, terete, each c. 2 mm diam. at base, with 3 – 8, ± evenly spaced, short leafy side-branches (Fig. 2B), proximal branches up to 1.5 cm long, phyllotaxy spiral, diam. slightly more slender than the principal axes, leaves with axillary rosette shoots. Rosette (spur) shoots axillary with stems inconspicuous, 1 – 2 per axil, each bearing 2 – 8 leaves and a single terminal spathellum. Leaves of side branches withspiral phyllotaxy, internodes c. 1 mm long, laterally compressed, linear, (2 –) 2.5 – 8 × 0.25 mm, entire, very rarely bifid, apex obtuse-rounded, basal 1 – 2 mm canaliculate, shortly sheathing the stem, astipulate (Fig. 2B), subtending axillary rosette shoots. Leaves of rosette shoots, proximal leaves as those of the subtending sidebranches, but usually with a pair of stipules arising from near base of the leaf sheath; distal 1 – 2 leaves immediately subtending the spathellum usually astipulate, shorter, 1.5 – 2 × 0.3 mm (Fig. 2D). Stipules symmetrical, equal, on each side of the leaf, narrowly triangular, 0.1 – 0.5 (– 0.8) × 0.1 mm, apex rounded, size of stipules increasing towards stem apex-spathellum (Fig. 2C). Spathellum (undehisced) orbicular, 1 mm diam., mucro 0.2 mm long with apex rounded; dehiscing irregularly, post-dehiscence 1 – 2 × 0.7 – 1 mm (Fig. 2D). Flower ± erect in bud (in spathellum); at anthesis partly included in the ruptured spathellum (Fig. 2E – G). Pedicel 0.5 – 1.5 mm long at anthesis. Tepals 2, slightly spatulate-oblanceolate to filiform 0.2 – 0.3 mm, distal portion 0.1 mm broad, flat, stipe 0.05 mm broad, erect (Fig. 2F & G). Stamen as long as or exceeding gynoecium, filament 1 – 1.2 mm long, dorsiventrally flattened; anther oblong 0.5 × 0.25 mm. Gynophore 0 (– 0.2) mm long. Ovary ellipsoid 0.75 – 1 × 0.6 – 0.65 × 0.7 – 0.75 mm, in transverse section slightly ellipsoid, slightly narrower along the sutured plane; unilocular, longitudinal ribs well-defined, 6 (three on each valve), commissural ribs absent (Fig. 2J). Stigmas 2, complanate, ovate, 0.25 – 0.3 × 0.18 – 0.2 mm, minutely verrucate (Fig. 2E – H). Fruit about same size as ovary; pedicel accrescent (1.5 –) 2.5 mm long, carrying fruit beyond the spathellum (Fig. 2H). Seeds ellipsoid 0.2 × 0.15 mm. DISTRIBUTION. Cameroon, North West Region, Bamenda-Fundong, Anyajua, known only from the type locality. SPECIMENS EXAMINED. CAMEROON, North West Region, Bamenda-Fundong, Anyajua, “Waterfall near Ijim Project HQ”, fl. fr., 12 Dec. 1998, Cheek et al. 9920 (holotype K [K000229622]; isotypes SCA, YA). Only the type specimen is known. HABITAT. On boulders in spray zone below waterfall from basalt cliff, in former submontane forest belt. No other Podostemaceae present (Cheek pers. obs. Dec. 1998); 1200 m alt. CONSERVATION STATUS. Sapicolella ijim is known from a single waterfall, with only 20 – 30 plants scattered in an area of not more than 10 m × 10 m. Threats were not apparent at the time of collection. Here the species is assessed as Critically Endangered, CR B2ab(iii)+D. The waterfall is fed from a stream at the top of the Ijim Plateau where cattle have been introduced, posing a threat by their grazing and trampling increasing surface run-off and so silt levels in the stream feeding the falls. Targeted searches for Podostemaceae at numerous other waterfalls in the Fundong-Anyajua -Ijim area in 1998 did not uncover any additional sites for this species (Cheek et al. 1997; Cheek et al. 2000). Targeted searches by Ghogue to refind this taxon (then thought to be Ledermanniella musciformis) in the Bamenda area in 2006 with Ryoko Imachi and Yoko Kita failed to find it. Nearcomprehensive botanical surveys in other locations S, Wand Eof Kilum-Ijim have failed to find additional locations although they brought to light several other species of Podostemaceae (e.g. Cable & Cheek 1998; Chapman & Chapman 2001; Harvey et al. 2003, 2010; Cheek et al. 2003, 2010, 2011). PHENOLOGY. Flowering and fruiting in December, 2 – 2 months after the end of the main wet season. ETYMOLOGY. Named for Ijim, tribal lands of the Kom people, to which area this species is unique on current evidence. NOTES. When revisiting an incomplete and unsatisfactory identification the first author had made of a specimen from the Fondom of Kom in the Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon many years ago (Cheek 9920, Ijim, Anyajua, waterfall, 1200 m, 12 Dec. 1998, previously identified as Ledermanniella cf. musciformis: Cheek et al. 2000: 152) it was realised that the fruiting ovary was erect emerging from the spathellum and, given the ribbon-like roots, longitudinally ribbed fruit and single stamen, that this could not possibly be a Ledermanniella, but a species of Sapicolella. Prior to this paper, the only other published species of Sapicolella sensu stricto known which has long stems was S. flabellata. Sapicolella ijim differs from S. flabellata in the simple leaves, very rarely bifid (not flabellate, quadrifid); stigmas complanate, ovate (not filiform); fruit 6-ribbed, ellipsoid, length:breadth ratio c. 1: 0.65 (not 8-ribbed, fusiform, length: breadth c. 1: 0.22). Sapicolella ijim occurs within a few kilometres of S. marginalis. These two species, together with S. angola, occur at the highest altitudes known for the genus (1200 – 1300 m alt.). The two Bamenda Highland species are easily separated since while the first has long stems, which are only produced from the centre of the radiating root rosette, the second lacks long stems completely, and instead bears numerous sessile, rosette-like stems along the margins of the radiating ribbon-like roots. Sapicolella ijim is similar to Sapicolella sp. Ain the unusual feature of the ovary being sessile (the gynophore being absent). Asummary of the rare, high altitude plant species of Kilum-Ijim (Mt Oku) is given by Maisels et al. (2000). Additional narrowly endemic species discovered from the Kilum-Ijim area are: Ternstroemia cameroonensis Cheek (Cheek et al. 2017c), Dovyalis cameroonensis Cheek (Cheek & Ngolan 2006).Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on pages 411-415, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/759936
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No full textcod 2 nIt was at least as familiar in many outharbour households as cod's cheek stew.WKUsed I and SupUsed Sup3Used Supcodd,codde,cod-fish,FISH n,BANK,RED,ROCK,SHORE1,TOM COD,as cold as a cod's nose,codfish is cod by name and by nature,no cod, no cash,cod-bag/blubber/fish/fishery/fishing/fish weather/flake/hauler/jigger/jigging/line/net/oil/seine/'s head/sound/stage/Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Wed 15 Jun 201
Saxicolella futa Cheek
No full text7. Saxicolella futa Cheek sp. nov. Type: Guinée (Republic of Guinea), Guinée Moyenne, Futa Djalon, Labé, Chutes de Salaa, 877 m alt., fr. 18 Jan. 2018, Cheek 18973 (holotype K [K000592222]; isotype HNG). http://www.ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77297288-1 Sapicolella futa ined. Couch et al. (2019: 171, 213) Annual herb, (1 –) 1.5 – 2 cm diam., stems including fruits 1.8 – 2.2 mm tall (Fig. 7A & B). Roots radiating, adhering strongly to substrate, dorsiventrally strongly flattened (thallus or ribbon-like), 0.2 – 0.5 (– 0.8) mm wide, internodes 1.5 – 2.2 mm long, repeatedly bifurcating at angles of 80 – 100 (– 120°), drying bright white, resembling Riccia (thalloid liverwort) (Fig. 8). Stems monomorphic, extremely short, in the fork of root bifurcations, bearing a sessile rosette, phyllotaxy spiral, leaves 2 – 3, spathellum single, terminal. Leaves concave, irregularly ovate or elliptic, 0.2 – 0.3 × 0.2 – 0.2 mm, apex acuminate, basal attachment broad, stipules absent, distal leaves larger than proximal. Spathellum pre-dehiscence ellipsoid, 0.3 × 0.25 mm, apiculate, basal part sheathed in leaves; dehiscing irregularly, then broadly funnel-shaped c. 1.2 × 0.8 mm. Pedicel erect, c. 0.6 mm long. Tepals 2, filiform, suberect, 0.2 mm long. Stamen one, filament 1.25 – 1.6 mm, erect, exceeding ovary; anther oblong, 0.18 – 0.2 × 0.18 mm, cells opposite. Gynoecium, gynophore curved, 0.6 × 0.1 mm. Ovary unilocular, ellipsoid in fruit, (0.7 –) 0.8 – 0.85 × 0.3 – 0.5 mm, elliptic in transverse section, c. 0.3 × 0.5 mm (Fig. 7H), with six shallow longitudinal ribs (commissural ribs not developed). Stigmas 2, complanate, oblong, 0.175 – 0.2 × 0.1 mm. Fruit placenta spindle-like (Fig. 7E). Seeds oblong-ellipsoid 0.25 × 0.18 – 0.19 mm (hydrated) (Fig. 7K). RECOGNITION. Differing from other Sapicolella species with sessile spathellae (S. marginalis, S. deniseae) in the shoots not marginal, numerous, closely spaced, but single, at root bifurcations; leaves lacking stipules (not stipulate); root slender (1 mm wide, not or rarely bifurcating along its length). DISTRIBUTION. Guinée (Republic of Guinea), Guinée Moyenne, Fouta Djalon. SPECIMENS EXAMINED. GUINEA. Fouta Djalon, Pita, above Chutes de Kinkon, 857 m alt. fl. 18 Jan. 2018, Cheek 18979 with Molmou (HNG, K [K000592222]); ibid 18 Jan. 2018, Cheek 18980 with Molmou (HNG, K [K000592223]); Pita, Chutes de Kambadga, 710 m alt. fr. 19 Jan. 2018, Cheek photo record; Labé, Chutes de Salaa, 877 m alt., fr. 18 Jan. 2018, Cheek 18973 (holotype K [K000592222]; isotype HNG). HABITAT. Waterfalls in the former cloud forest zone. The species grows at three sites each with several other Podostemaceae-Podostemoideae species (see case study above) but flowers, fruits and dies in advance of those, growing higher up in the riverbed than all other species of that group. 710 – 877 m alt. CONSERVATION STATUS. Known so far from three locations: 1) Chutes de Salaa near Dalaba (type locality); 2) above the Chutes de Kinkon; 2) Chutes de Kambadga, downstream of Kinkon. The AOO is estimated as 12 km 2 using the IUCN (2012) -preferred 2 km × 2 km grid cells and the extent of occurrence as 81.8 km 2. Here Sapicolella futa is assessed as Endangered, EN B2ab(iii) since there are severe and imminent threats at all three locations. At locations 1) and 2) there are plans to build hydroelectric dams that are very likely to result in local extinction of the species (pers. obs. Cheek 2018). At site 2) the species is threatened by contamination of the water source by silt from run-off and by eutrophication due to contamination as the Kinkon river traverses the major town of Pita: fewer than 50 plants were seen at this location, and occupied a total area of <2 m × 2 m. In the next 10 years this species is expected to be reassessed as Critically Endangered (CR), or even “possibly extinct”. However, it is possible that further surveys may find additional sites for the species, which would be welcome. Seed banking and public awareness actions will be put in place as soon as possible. 1 Note added in proof May 2022: new imagery dated 21 Nov. 2021 shows the site completely submerged, extinction has likely resulted PHENOLOGY. Presumably germinating no earlier than May, with the beginning of the wet season, before which its habitat is dry. Flowering may begin as early as November after the conclusion of the wet season in October. By January fruit has formed and the plants are dead. ETYMOLOGY. Named for the Futa (or Fouta) Djalon highlands of the Republic of Guinea to which the species appears to be unique. NOTES. Sapicolella futa has a shorter growing season, (possibly completing its life cycle in only six months or less) than all other Podostemaceae species present at each of the three locations at which it is known, apart from Tristicha trifaria. Both these two species were dead, dried and in fruit when encountered in Jan. 2018, while all other species of Podostemaceae present at these sites were still alive and only, for the most part, just becoming exposed by falling water and were in the process of beginning their flowering. The fact that, in these three locations, S. futa was found only on rock surfaces 20 – 100 cm above the waterlevel at which most other Podostemaceae (and all other Podostemoideae) occurred suggests that the species may have evolved into a niche to escape competition from those species. The extremely minute and inconspicuous stems, the diminutive ovaries, diminutive leaves, and slender roots in comparison with other species of the genus, may well all be reductions that have enabled it to occupy a niche where the growing season is short, being the last to be submerged, and the first exposed, of all the Podostemoideae niches present within its range. Sapicolella futa is unique in the genus for its very slender (<1 mm wide) ribbon-like roots, for the small size of its flowers, and for the position of the flowering shoots being only at the point of root bifurcations, so that the roots appear to terminate in a shoot before bifurcating. It is also unique in lacking evidence of stipules, but this is possibly concomitant with the reduction of leaf size. At maturity, more than 90 – 95% of the bulk of the plant consists of root, more so than any of the other species of the genus where the shoots are much more numerous and also larger and longer. The flowers and fruits are difficult to discern. Recent surveys in Guinea connected with the Guinea Tropical Important Plant Area programme (TIPAs) have discovered several other new species to science, all of which are threatened. Several of these are, like Sapicolella futa, also rheophytes, restricted to fast flowing water habitats, such as Inversodicraea pepehabai Cheek (Cheek & Haba 2016), I. koukoutamba and I. tassing (Cheek et al. 2019a), Karima scarciesii (Scott Elliot) Cheek (Cheek et al. 2016), Lebbiea grandiflora Cheek (Cheek & Lebbie 2018; Couch et al. 2019), while others are also found on the sandstone rock of the Fouta such as Keetia futa (Cheek et al. 2018a), Calophyllum africanum (Cheek & Luke 2016), and Kindia gangan Cheek (Cheek et al. 2018b).Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on pages 423-424, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/759936
FIG. 1 in Gymnosiphon mayottensis Cheek, sp. nov. (Burmanniaceae) a new species from Mayotte, Comoro Islands
No full textFIG. 1. — Gymnosiphon mayottensis Cheek, sp. nov.: A, habit; A', detail showing base of stem and roots; B, branch of inflorescence with flower buds and detail of bract; C, dissection of large flower bud from B; D, open flower; E, perianth and stigmas (from photo); F, stamen and pair of lateral outer perianth lobes from bud dissected in C; G, stigmatic filament looped over lateral perianth lobe in bud dissected in C; H, fruit (dried). All drawn from S. Traclet 665 (MAO03189), liquid preserved, unless otherwise indicated. Drawn by Andrew Brown. Scale bars: A, 1 cm; A', B, C, D, H, 2 mm; E, F, G, 1 mm.Published as part of Cheek, Martin & Traclet, Sébastien, 2020, Gymnosiphon mayottensis Cheek, sp. nov. (Burmanniaceae) a new species from Mayotte, Comoro Islands, pp. 179-188 in Adansonia 42 (8) on page 183, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a8, http://zenodo.org/record/387745
Letter from S. B. Simmons to G. E. Cheek
No full textLetter from S. B. Simmons to G. E. Cheek, concerning establishment of Farm Colony
Letter from S. B. Simmons to G. E. Cheek
No full textLetter from S. B. Simmons to G. E. Cheek, concerning previous letter
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