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A Portuguese zoologist and politician. He was the curator of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Lisbon. His work at the Museum consisted in acquiring, describing and coordinating collections, many of which arrived from the Portuguese colonies in Africa, such as Angola, Mozambique, etc. He published more than 200 taxonomic papers on mammals, birds, and fishes. In the 1880s he became the Minister of the Navy and later the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Portugal. The zoology collection at the Lisbon Museum is called the Bocage Museum in his honor. He was responsible for identifying many new species, which he named according to the naturalist who found them.
The horsetails (class Equisetopsida) are an ancient group of spore-bearing vascular land plants. First evolving during the Devonian period, they developed in the Carboniferous period into some of the largest plants of the time, some becoming trees of 30 metres or more tall with stout trunks. With the evolution of seed plants, their dominance waned substantially, and now only a little over 20 species, all in the one genus Equisetum, still survive. Despite this, the genus has a nearly world-wide distribution, absent only from Australasia and Antarctica. Equisetum telmateia is one of the larger species, but like all the genus, is a herbaceous perennial plant. It produces its spores in a cone on separate stems in early spring (photo), with the foliage stems (above) growing in late spring and persisting through summer until autumn. In winter, only the underground rhizome survives.
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