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Commons and used in Wikispecies. Viscum album

Some facts on this plant:

Distribution: Europe and western and southern

Asia.
Distinguished author
Leaves: Opposite, strap-shaped, 2–8 cm long.

Flowers: Yellowish-green, 2–3 mm across.

Fruit: White or yellow berry, usually with a

single seed.

Medical uses: Used as a treatment for

degenerative joint inflammation
(osteoarthritis) and malignant tumors.

First described: By the Swedish naturalist

Carolus Linnaeus in 1753.

Viscum album doesn't grow on the ground but

on the branches or trunks of trees. It sends out
roots that penetrate into the tree and take up
nutrients. This shrub is a common holiday
Mary Agnes Chase decoration in Europe. Sprigs of mistletoe were
1869–1963. Standard IPNI form: Chase believed to protect the house from fire and
lightning, and couples meeting under hanging
Mary Agnes Chase, née Merrill, was an mistletoe were obliged to kiss. The mistletoe
American botanist who worked at the U.S. was also important to the ancient Celts, who
Department of Agriculture and the believed the plant to be an antidote for poison.
Smithsonian Institution. She is considered Because it is a tree-parasite, the modern
one of the world's outstanding agrostologists reputation of mistletoe has not been as

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and is known for her work on the study of
grasses, and also for her work as a suffragist.
Chase was born in Iroquois County, Illinois
and held no formal education beyond
grammar school. That aside, she made
significant contributions to the field of botany,
authored over 70 scientific publications, and
was conferred with an honorary doctorate in
science from the University of Illinois. She
specialized in the study of grasses and
conducted extensive field work in North- as
well as and South America. Her Smithsonian
Field Books collection from 1897 to 1959 is
archived in the Smithsonian Institution
Archives.
favorable. However, ecological studies have
shown that more new juniper trees sprout in
areas with mistletoe, and that more berry-eating
birds are attracted by the mistletoe's fruit, so
that nearby berry-producing trees are more
likely to have their seeds distributed. Currently
at least six subspecies are recognized. They
differ in fruit colour, leaf shape and size, and
most obviously in the host trees utilised.

In 1901, Chase became a botanical assistant

at the Field Museum of Natural History under
Charles Frederick Millspaugh, where her work
was featured in two museum publications:
Plantae Utowanae (1900) and Plantae
Yucatanae (1904). Two years later, Chase
joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) as a botanical illustrator and
eventually became a scientific assistant in
systematic agrostology (1907), assistant
botanist (1923), and associate botanist
(1925), all under Albert Spear Hitchcock.
Chase worked with Hitchcock for almost
twenty years, collaborating closely and also
publishing, for instance The North American
Species of Panicum (1910).

Following Hitchcock's death in 1936, Chase

succeeded him to become senior botanist in
charge of systematic agrostology and
custodian of the Section of Grasses, Division
of Plants at the United States National
Museum (USNM). Chase retired from the
USDA in 1939, but continued her work as
custodian of the USNM grass herbarium until
her death in 1963. She was an Honorary
Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution (1959)
and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
(1961). Agnesia is named in her honour (a
monotypic genus of herbaceous South
American bamboo in the grass family).

Chase experienced discrimination based on

her gender in the scientific field, for example,
being excluded from expeditions to Panama
in 1911 and 1912 because the expedition's
benefactors feared the presence of women
researchers would distract men. During World

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War I, Chase marched with Alice Paul and

was jailed several times for her activities. In
1918, she was arrested at the Silent
Sentinels rally picketing the White House; she
refused bail and was held for 10 days, where
she instigated a hunger-strike and was force-
fed. The USDA accused her of "conduct
unbecoming a government employee," but
Hitchcock helped her keep her job. Chase
was also an active member of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP).

See also: Distinguished authors of previous months.

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