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Number 2: Proceedings of the Andre Michaux International Symposium
     Michael J. Baranski, editor

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of invited and contributed presentations
Symposium registrants
Sponsors, friends and contributors

Introduction
     Michael J. Baranski
The origin and history of the Andre Michaux International Symposium - 'AMIS'
     Charlie Williams
Andre Michaux, a biographical sketch
     Charlie Williams
No man is an island: the life and times of Andre Michaux
     James L. Reveal
Andre Michaux and French botanical networks at the end of the old regime
     James E. McClellan III
Explorer, botanists, courier, or spy?  Andre Michaux and the Genet Affair of 1793
     Charlie Williams
Andre Michaux's travels and plant discoveries in the Carolinas
     David H. Rembert, Jr.
Andre Michaux visits Spanish East Florida, Spring 1788
     Walter Kingsley Taylor and Elaine M. Norman
Andre Michaux and his journey in Canada in 1792
     Marie Florence Lamaute
Bedazzled and bedeviled: the religious sensibilities of Andre Michaux
     J. Lawrence Brasher
Andre Michaux: Understanding the person
     Gail Fishman
Treasured ornamentals of southern gardens - Michaux's lasting legacy
     James R. Cothran
The status of rare vascular plants that bear Michaux's name
     Bruce A. Sorrie
The type locality of Shortia galacifolia T. & G. visited once again
     Charlie Williams, Elaine M. Norman and Gerard G. Aymonin
The fragmented habitat of Michaux's beautiful discovery: Shortia galacifolia T. & G. (Diapensiaceae)
     Charlotte E. Lackey
An ecological study of Magnolia macrophylla in Gaston County, North Carolina
     Robert Tomkins
Electrophoretic analysis of Magnolia macrophylla Michaux in Gaston County, North Carolina
     Michael J. McLeod and Sheila S. Reilly
Andre Michaux's sumac - Rhus michauxii Sargent: Why did Sargent rename it and where did Michaux find it?
     Lawrence S. Barden and James F. Matthews
Michauxia (Campanulaceae): A western Asian genus honoring a North American pioneer botanist
     Mohammad S. Al-Zein and Lytton John Musselman
Arboreal species richness in piedmont North Carolina 1764-1996
     Robert A. Browne and Jeffrey LaVoie
Botanical explorations of Andre Michaux in Kentucky: observations of vegetation in the 1790s
     William S. Bryant
Andre Michaux's influence on Stephen Elliott's A Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia
     George A. Rogers, Vivian Rogers-Price, and Daniel V. Hagan
Threads connecting three botanists whose lives touched three centuries of American history
     Mary Coker Joslin
Michaux mysteries clarified
     Regis Pluchet
A genealogical discovery: contact with a member of the Michaux family in France
     Mary Coker Joslin

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