The vascular flora of the Roy E. Larsen Sandylands Sanctuary was surveyed during a 16 month period. A catalogue is included of the 544 species in 105 families that were collected on the 881.4 ha preserve located in the Big Thicket region of Texas. Eight woody stands representing variation in the woody communities found on the preserve were analyzed for composition. Density, frequency, basal area, and importance values for each species in the stands within the woody communities are presented.
This paper lists 14 species of Myxomycetes not previously known to occur in West Virginia and emends two records reported in an earlier paper.
Note that the volume number on the cover is 50. That’s right-Castanea and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club are 50 years old. In 1935, Earl Core, with the assistance of Betty Bartholomew, formed the Club for “all persons interested in the botany of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.” For over 35 years, those two people contributed uncountable hours of time and much of the energy of their professional and private lives to the Club and journal. Unfortunately, both have died in recent months. People who have contributed as much to a single organization and publication are few in number, so it is most appropriate that we honor them in this 50th volume. In reading these tributes, you will see that they were not only anchors of SABC, but active in their communities and a positive influence on people who met and knew them.
Edition one (1968) of Grass Systematics, by the late Dr. Gould alone, is widely accepted as a text and a general reference. This second edition, also overflowing with useful information, is most welcome.
This booklet is intended as a “primer” for identifying mushrooms commonly occurring in the Connecticut Arboretum in New London, Connecticut, and vicinity. Interestingly, most of the species described also occur in the southeastern United States.
A floristic study was conducted between July, 1981 and November, 1982 on a ravine system in an 88-hectare area of Gold Head Branch State Park in southwestern Clay County of northeastern peninsular Florida. There is a dramatic relief of this karst area, sharply contrasting with the surrounding sandhill community. Five plant communities—ruderal, sandhill, xeric oak scrub, streambank, and mixed hardwoods—were distinguished within the study area. A total of 356 species comprising 26 hepatics, 30 mosses, 256 vascular plants, and 44 lichens was collected.
A sample of non-alluvial and alluvial lowland forests in the coastal plain of South Carolina was classified using cluster analysis and then analyzed for environment-vegetation relationships using reciprocal averaging ordination. A gradient of water table position, fire frequency, and fire severity was noted in the non-alluvial lowland forests. Two gradients, topographic position and river size, were identified in alluvial lowland forests.
This monograph represents the state of the art in investigations of pollen and vegetation calibration in North America and is not likely to be surpassed soon. The Delcourts and Webb have brought together both published and a large amount of their own unpublished modern pollen data from Canada and the United States, east of the 105th meridian (a total of 1684 samples of surface duff, surface lake and bog sediments, and moss polsters).
While visiting Pocahontas State Park in Chesterfield County, Virginia during the fall of 1984, an unfamiliar blue flowered plant was observed growing near the upper reaches of Swift Creek Lake.