It is our pleasure to announce a new interface for the specimen databases of Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium and Tall Timbers Research Station's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium. Both herbaria are named for Bob Godfrey (1911-2000), a respected expert on the flora of the southeastern U.S. The website serves data and images for approximately 60,000 of FSU's 206,000 specimens and nearly all of Tall Timbers' 10,500 specimens. These specimens document diversity in the East Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion, one of North America's biotic hotspots, and also represent flora from other regions, especially the Neotropics. These databases can be accessed at http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. The new functionality allows new types of searches and results, including the following possibilities: (1) provide all specimens that were flowering in June in Leon County, Florida, irrespective of year, (2) map all specimens of invasive species collected in the past 10 years in Florida, and (3) provide only the desired set of fields about the specimens of interest in a tab-delimited file that can be opened in Excel or other spreadsheet programs. The search interface is also more convenient, with auto-fill of several fields (e.g., common name). The popular display of results as a page of thumbnails is now one of four available result formats.
