Volume 45 – Issue 2 (Jun 1980)

In the South, Potamogeton confervoides Reich. has previously been known only from three contiguous counties in North Carolina (Radford, 1968).

Several authors (including the present one) have called attention to so-called ‘population explosions’ among certain of our native orchids.

Colic root (Aletris farinosa L.) is exceedingly rare in Western Pennsylvania.

For some unexplained reason, the article by Richard E. Riefner, Jr., and Donald R. Windler, Polygonum perfoliatum L. established in Maryland (Castanea 44: 2. pp. 91-93. 1979), was not included in the table of Contents on the front of the journal. The error is regretted.

Dear Dr. Clovis: Unfortunately there is an error that I am responsible for in my article “The Carolina Plants of Andre Michaux” that appeared in the June issue [Castanea 44: 2. 1979]. In the list of plants the genus Quercus should obviously be placed in the family Fagaceae, and the genus Ulmus should be in the Ulmaceae. I would appreciate it if you could print a correction for me in an upcoming issue.

This volume vividly describes the objectives, work, and progress resulting from the first 50 years (1927-1977) of the existence of the Highlands Biological Station.

In 1975, the first report of Isoetes in Mississippi (Pullen et al. 1976) was made in conjunction with a floristic study of Tishomingo State Park in the Tennessee River Hills of northeastern Mississippi.

I spent July 29, 1979, in a small population of American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius L., waiting to observe insect visitors to the flower, hoping to discover the pollinating agents of American ginseng.

This is a remarkable work, of great preciseness and yet very broad coverage, about one of the botanically important areas of the world. Barro Colorado Island lies in the middle of Gatun Lake, just west of the Panama Canal, and about in the center of the Republic of Panama. It is tropical in vegetation, being about 90 latitude north of the equator.

This is a small book (390 pages) on the field and methods of vascular plant systematics; it is very much reminiscent of George Lawrence’s small “Introduction to Plant Taxonomy.” The present work is much updated over Lawrence, however, and is a much more useful work.