This volume is one of the multivolumed illustrated Flora of Illinois, and covers the Cyperaceae exclusive of Carex, some 12 genera and 85 species. Descriptions, keys, and relationships between genera and species are given, as well as range maps (for Illinois only), and excellent illustrations. An excellent book for sedge identification or range comparisons.
Field Photography is a much enlarged and better version of Blaker’s first version in 1965. The present volume is a very practical and usable work for the person needing many photographic techniques beyond “just snapshots”, i.e., close-up work, filters for technical results or for emphasis, short and long focal length lenses, etc. The book is written for the beginner in the sense of simplicity, but the advanced photographer will enjoy Blaker’s easy explanations.
A book which assumes you know nothing, and proceeds to tell you “how to”; this one is excellent. Many techniques, reasons, methods, and some of the problems of home plant propagation are given. Highly recommended.
Most botanists in the eastern U.S., both professional and amateurs, take occasional trips to the Rocky Mountains. The flora there is to a considerable extent unfamiliar. For all of us, Bill Weber has done a great service, over the years, in providing a handy manual for identification of the plants we will see on these trips. The present compact, attractively produced volume is the fifth edition of the book published in 1953 as a Handbook of Plants of the Colorado Front Range.
Among several interesting collections made by students in vascular plant taxonomy and aquatic plant courses at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1976, two merit special note at this time.
A note from Roger and Rebecca Anderson: “We regret to inform you that there is an error in our paper entitled, “The Presettlement vegetation of Williamson County, Illinois,” which appeared in Castanea 40: 345-363.
While collecting vascular plants in the vicinity of Medoc Mountain northeast of Hollister in Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1973, the writer noticed a population of wild ginger, Asarum canadense L., extensive enough to form a mat of considerable area on the floodplain of Little Fishing Creek.
According to Radford, Ahles, and Bell (1968), the following are Beaufort County records:
New species here reported are:
Thalictrum dasycarpum Fisch. & Lall. Purple Meadow Rue. While botanizing near Sutton, Braxton Co., Dr. Betty Fisher of Baltimore, Md., identified this tall meadow rue with a purple stem, growing in a wet meadow near the Sutton airport runway where nearly fifty plants made a striking display.