The pages provides full text search functionality of the Biodiversity Heritage Library's corpus of cf. 160,000 scanned books and articles. The search is run on OCR text, so apparent typos are bound to appear in the results. A link is provided to the scanned page for every result so these spelling errors can be resolved.
pistil will NOT return results containing pistilatePut exact strings in double quotes, otherwise adjacent words could occur in various places in the docuement. ALL species binomials must be quoted.
AND, OR, NOT are available. Parens can be used to group. E.g. ("Triphora trianthophora" OR "Pogonia trianthophoros") AND (pollination OR pollen OR pollinia) NOT (texas or oklahoma)I highly recomend you format your search using the booleans, parens, and quotes. If you do not use OR between unquoted search terms, the pages may not load correctly! E.g. use "Chimaphila maculata" AND (mycoheterotrophic OR hemiparasitic) instead of Chimaphila maculata mycoheterotrophic hemiparasitic
The results are returned in a order according to their supposed relavence to the query.
The API can sometimes be slow or unreliable, the server may time out after 1 minute. If that happens, search again and it may work. If it times out, an error will be displayed.