“…A. S. Hitchcock , an agrostologist; William R. Maxon (1873Maxon ( -1948, a pteridologist (see Maxon, 1906;Nash, 1907); and Paul Carpenter Standley (1884Standley ( -1963, a general collector. They were joined by other Americans, including Jesse M. Greenman , who became the first curator from the Missouri Botanical Garden to collect plants in Costa Rica, when he visited with his son in search of Senecio (Asteraceae) in early 1922; lichenologist Carroll W. Dodge , who came to Costa Rica in 1925 and again in [1929][1930] (Dodge, 1930(Dodge, , 1933; and Harvey E. Stork Porsch (1875Porsch ( -1959 who, accompanied by countryman Giorgio Cufodontis , collected in disparate regions of the country in 1930 (see Porsch, 1932); and Swiss botanist (based in Germany) Walter Kupper , who gathered some 2100 numbers in 1931 and 1932, and became the first botanist to ascend Cerro Chirripo (Suessenguth, 1942;Weber, 1958: 145).…”