It is a complex task to write a textbook of zoology. The subject matter ranges from atomic and molecular structures to the gross anatomy of animals which vary in size from single celled protozoans to huge whales weighing many tons. Hickman’s book includes these and much more.
Although this book was released in 1963, this reviewer feels that it should again be brought to the attention of thousands of new teachers and graduate students who may not know of it.
One of the foremost workers in the field of Evolution-Genetics, Dr. Stebbins has here given us his present idea,s of the field. This book is somewhat a popularization of his classical “Variation and Evolution in Plants” text, and is written so that the average reader can assimilate the material without a broad background in the field.
The book is timely, appearing as we are all becoming more acutely aware of the need for knowledge of what marine vegetation we have to work with, the ecology and nutritional requirements of this vegetation, and the economic values.
During the Annual Roan Mountain Wildflower Tour, in May, 1965, an orchid with small greenish flowers was discovered growing near Burbank, Tennessee, by Dr. Herman O’Dell, Mr. John Luker and the writer. No collections were made at the time because of the scarcity of plants seen.
In August, 1966, the writer received a report of a population of Andrachne phyllanthoides in Blount County, Alabama, apparently the first population of the plant reported from east of Arkansas.
On May 22, 1965 as Dr. Elizabeth Fisher and I drove along Bloomery Road, Jefferson County, between Routes 9 and 340, the pendulous pods of Woad (Isatis tinctoria) attracted our attention. Excitedly we found it to be a new plant for us; also it was not recorded in the “Flora of West Virginia.”
During the last several years, two interesting plants, new to the Carnegie Museum Herbarium’s western Pennsylvania collections, have been obtained.
During the spring and summer of 1966 field work resulted in the finding of several plants not reported previously for the Upper Piedmont of Central Virginia.
The genus Scleria Berg., a fairly large, diverse, somewhat variable genus of the Cyperaceae, is best represented in the United States in the Southeastern Coastal regions. This paper concerns a taxonomic and distributional study and revision of the genus in the Southeastern United States including the following states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.