Book Review: Mosses of the Great Lakes Forests

This scholarly book was written chiefly for students at the University of Michigan Biological Station, where the teaching of bryology has been important since 1918, when George E. Nichols first visited the station. The book includes all the mosses of the area of the Straits of Mackinac, in the counties of Cheboygan, Emmet, Mackinac, and Presque Isle; but the introductory key includes all genera of mosses known in Michigan and the text provides means of identifying all species of mosses known in Michigan, indeed most species of the entire Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin. Actually, the book is a guide to identification of mosses of much of eastern North America, including especially the Southern Appalachian region.