Volume 41 – Issue 3 (Sep 1976)

Although the literature reports that the range of Isoetes engelmannii A. Braun extends west to the Mississippi River and Missouri, we have been unable to find any documented record of the species ever having been found in Mississippi; twelve years of intensive study of the Mississippi flora by the senior author have failed to locate a single plant anywhere within the state.

An instructional how-to-do book, concerning writing, photography, newspaper and TV reportage for outdoor phenomena. Basically common sense, although the beginner in any of those fields might pick up some pointers. Good writing is needed in many fields nowadays, but is being taught in the vernacular rather than good solid reportage.

Another book from the quite productive team of Krochmal and Krochmal, this one gives, in very interesting and entertaining fashion, what plants and their parts are used for medicinal purposes by many people throughout the United States.

This is a reprint of Dr. Ammon’s original 1950 paperback bulletin on West Virginia (but applicable to the mid-Appalachians) shrubs and vines.

Fitness By Any Other Name Would Be As Loose

This non-technical handbook furnishes practical information about managing shrubs and woody vines that are important to wild birds and mammals for food and cover.

Another volume in the special series by the Systematics Association (see book review above), this volume has as its aim the establishment of the changes occurring in the flora and fauna of Britain.

This is Special Volume No. 5 in the series of symposia volumes published by the Systematics Association, an English association of interested taxonomists, generally centered at the University of Reading, but worldwide in scope.

This book is an attempt to bring into English availability one of the European classical vegetation study texts, Ellenberg’s “Aufgaben und Methoden der Vegetationskunde,” published in 1956.

This is an addendum to our recent article on stranded tropical disseminules from eastern United States beaches (Castanea 37:195-200. 1972).