Volume 43 – Issue 3 (Sep 1978)

A second edition of Population, Resources, Environment, first published in 1972, this is a much enlarged, voluminous compendium of present day thinking in regard to the state of mankind in a rapidly depleting world.

This is a revision of Dodd’s first work, Form and Function in Plants, published.

This is an atlas, of county/ distribution maps, to accompany its descriptive companion volume, Guide to the Vascular Flora of Illinois (1975), by Mohlenbrock.

In the June 1978 issue of Castanea (Vol. 43:2, page 141), a series of additions to the flora of West Virginia were presented by Dr. Dan K. Evans, Biology, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25701. By an inadvertent error, credit for the work was omitted, and is herewith corrected.

The Program will consist of 12 sections-molecular, metabolic, cellular and structural, developmental, environmental, community, genetic, systematic and evolutionary, fungal, aquatic, historical, and applied botany.

Dr. Ross C. Clark has called my attention to an error in communication, somewhere. Dr. Clark was listed as the vice-president of SABC in the frontispiece of Castanea, when in actuality, Dr. Gary E. Dillard, Biology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101, was elected. I was given Clark’s name through an apparent error; the error is regretted, and herewith corrected.

Paspalum fluitans (Ell.) Kunth (Gramineae) in the West Virginia flora represents the most northern extension of the species in the eastern states.

Botanizing in southwestern West Virginia during the past three years has turned up several species of vascular plants that are previously unrecorded or of rare occurrence in the State’s flora. Voucher specimens are in the Marshall University Herbarium, Huntington, West Virginia.

According to Thieret et al. (1969), Ottelia alismoides is a recent introduction in North America unknown outside of Louisiana.

The senior author, while collecting plants near Birmingham, Alabama, picked up a small moss which was determined by the junior author as Weissia sharpii.