One of the best general botany texts seen by this reviewer, is this introductory text, a “revision” and “up-dating,” by the authors of the old Weier, Stocking and Barbour text, plus two new authors, Rost and Thornton.
One of the best general botany texts seen by this reviewer, is this introductory text, a “revision” and “up-dating,” by the authors of the old Weier, Stocking and Barbour text, plus two new authors, Rost and Thornton.
Gerard’s Herbal, already a somewhat mixed entity, has now another confusing addition-The Dover version. All botanists know of the herbals, and their value both to explanatory as well as to historical botany. Unfortunately, Gerard’s Herbal seems to have been afflicted with more than the normal number of errors.
This is an excellent botany text for an introductory course. It has very good illustrations and charts (although some of the photographs in my copy were not well reproduced), each specifically explained.
The following orchids collected in west-central Louisiana, which, although previously reported, substantially increases their known distribution in the state. Vouchers are housed at NATC.
For another year it has been my privilege to examine all incoming specimens at the West Virginia University Herbarium.
A collection of Erigeron tenuis T. & G. from northwestern North Carolina, has been discovered disjunct more than 600 miles from the nearest known populations of this species in Mississippi and Arkansas.
The following collections are thought to be new and unreported additions of the Arkansas flora. This information has resulted from a study of the Arkansas Cyperaceae by this writer and is based upon current literature, particularly Smith (1978).
The flora, vegetation, and subsurface conditions of a unique swamp and savanna wetland are described. Three vegetation zones are present: savanna, Atlantic white cedar swamp, and deciduous swamp. A total of 47, 39, and 42 vascular plant taxa are found within these zones, respectively, including a number of taxa characteristic of “bogs” or other acidic habitats such as Habenaria blephariglottis, H. ciliaris, Pogonia ophioglossoides, Drosera intermedia, and Utricularia sp. The discovery of this swamp and savanna wetland is considered significant in that the site is vegetatively unique in Maryland.
A white flowered variant of Pinguicula caerulea Walt. is herein described as f. leucantha, its significance being possible confusion in field identification with commonly white-flowered plants of P. pumila Michx.
Floristic data and county dot distribution maps are presented for the fifteen native species and one naturalized species of the Asclepiadaceae found in the flora of Ohio.