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The species is traditionally known as Meria laricis.Meria was first described by Jean Paul Vuillemin (Vuill.) in France in 1896. [1] DNA analysis in the 1990s indicated its closest ancestor was the Rhabdocline genus, with the similarity significant enough for the genera of Meria, Hartigiella, and Rhabdocline to be combined as synonyms, with Rhabdocline chosen as the name of the merged genus.
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In 1866, Hopson and Brooks sold the patent to the machine to seven businessmen in Wolcottville, Connecticut (a neighborhood in Torrington), for $5,000 and 100 out of the 800 shares in the newly created Excelsior Needle Company. [3] By the mid-1870s, the Excelsior Needle Company was producing over 30,000 needles a day. [3]
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Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus Larix, of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from 20 to 50 metres (65 to 165 feet) tall, [ 1 ] they are native to the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, where they are found in lowland forests in the high latitudes, and high in mountains further south.
Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, [3] hackmatack, [3] eastern larch, [3] black larch, [3] red larch, [3] or American larch, [3] is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia; there is also an isolated ...
A needle and syringe programme (NSP), also known as needle exchange program (NEP), is a social service that allows injection drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost.
Larix decidua, the European larch, is a species of larch native to the mountains of central Europe, in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains, with small disjunct lowland populations in northern Poland. Its life span has been confirmed to be close to 1000 years, [ 3 ] with ages of around 2000 years likely.