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No. 159 March 17, 1997
aceska@freenet.victoria.bc.ca Victoria, B.C.
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Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2
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NPSBC - NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
The first Annual General Meeting of the NPSBC - Native Plant
Society of British Columbia was held in Victoria on March 9th,
1997 and ellected the first board of directors:
President: Douglas Justice
Vice President: Tom Wells
Treasurer: Sylvia Mosterman
Secretary: Ross Waddell
The remaining directors are:
Adolf Ceska, Theresa Duynstee, Pam Meneguzzi, Verna Miller, Wilf
Nichols, John Olafson, Bruce Peel, Giles Stevenson, Paulus
Vrijmoed, Josette Wier, and David Williams.
The aim of the Native Plant Society of British Columbia is to
encourage knowledge, responsible use and conservation of
British Columbia's native plants and habitats (cf. BEN # 144)
If you want to become a member, please, send your application
and the membership fee (Individual - $20.00, Associate - $15.00,
Corporate - $75.00) to
Ross Waddell, NPSBC Secretary
2012 William Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5L 2X6
Telephone: 604-255-5719
PLANTWATCH - SPECIAL BOTANY NIGHT - VICTORIA - APRIL 2, 1997
Special Botany Night: Wednesday, April 2, 1997, 7:30 p.m.,
Swan Lake Nature Centre. (Free admission)
Elisabeth Beaubien (Research Associate of the Devonian Botanic
Garden, University of Alberta in Edmonton) will talk about
"Plantwatch 97" - a phenology program launched by the Devonian
Garden.
EXHIBIT OF FRUITS (ACHENES AND PERIGYNIA) OF THE SEDGE FAMILY
Anna Roberts (Williams Lake, B.C.) was inspired by fruits of
Cyperaceae and created what she called the "biomorphic sculp-
tures" of various Cyperaceae achenes and Carex perigynia. Her
exhibit "SEDGES" will open in the Station House Gallery in
Williams Lake, B.C. on April 3rd, 1997, and will last till the
end of April. Don't miss it!
ORTHOCARPUS BARBATUS (SCROPHULARIACEAE) IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
From: Frank Lomer, Honourary Research Associate, UBC
Herbarium, Vancouver, B.C. c/o <ubc@unixg.ubc.ca>
Grand Coulee owl-clover, Orthocarpus barbatus Cotton, an attrac-
tive yellow-flowered species endemic to central Washington, was
collected on May 27, 1995 in low ground in Stipa-sagebrush hills
south of the golf course west of Highway 97 in Osoyoos. Many
hundreds of plants grew at this site in one small area at the
foot of 115th Street on the south side of a cattle fence ad-
jacent to a new and very destructive subdivision (Lomer 95-
198). In 1996 I revisited this site and the population seems to
have increased.
A second Canadian site for this species was found about 5 km due
east of the first site, on June 16,l996 in sagebrush flats south
of Highway 3, 49 0'25" N, 119 24'18" W (Lomer 96-079). This
population was considerably larger and covered a wide area near
an old cattle corral. Orthocarpus barbatus was collected earlier
at this same site by George Douglas and J.M. Illingworth on June
24, 1994 (Douglas # 12848).
BIOLOGY OF POPLARS
From: Adolf Ceska <aceska@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>
Stettler, R.F., H.D. Bradshaw, Jr., P.E. Heilman, & T.M.
Hinckley [eds.] 1996. Biology of Populus and its implication
for management and conservation. NRC Research Press, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada. 539 p. ISBN 0-660-16506-6 [hard cover]
Price: CND$49.95 (in Canada), US$49.95 (other countries).
The study of poplars has been the focal theme of the University
of Washington/Washington State University Poplar Research
Program since 1978. This book offers a summary of the results of
these studies. The twenty chapters (authored by forty-seven
researchers) are divided into two principal parts: 1) chapters
dealing with systematics, evolution, molecular biology,
hybridization, ecology, fungal pathogens, and herbivore interac-
tions of poplars (Chapter 1 through 11), and 2) chapters dealing
with the physiology, growth, productivity, and stress response
of various poplar species and their hybrids (Chapter 12 through
20).
The book covers a wide range of topics with poplar as a common
denominator. Although this book is a valuable reference to
everything related to poplars, it also contains valuable infor-
mation on applications of molecular biology, hybridization, and
physiological assessments of deciduous tree species. Anyone
interested in these fields will find it as a valuable reference.
The book is reasonably priced and very well produced. A general
subject index and an index of authors would have improved the
book.
Order information:
The book can be ordered from
Monographs Orders
NRC Research Press, M-55
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6
Telephone: 613-993-0151 Fax: 613-952-7656
e-mail: research.journals@nrc.ca
Web site: http://www.nrc.ca/cisti/journals/mgraphs.html
Authorized distributor (USA)
Aubrey Books International Ltd.
Telephone: 301-587-3950
e-mail: aubrey@access.digex.com
FLORA OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC VOL. II: CYPERACEAE - ORCHIDACEAE
From: Adolf Ceska <aceska@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>
Flora of the Russian Arctic. Volume 2. Translated from the
original Russian "Arkticheskaya Flora SSSR" by G.C.D. Grif-
fiths, edited by J.G. Packer. University of Alberta Press,
Edmonton. 1996. 233 p. ISBN 0-88864-270-9 [hard cover] Price:
CDN$125.00
This volume of an English translation of the Russian "Flora of
the Soviet Arctic" contains original volumes III (Cyperaceae -
published in January 1966) and IV (remaining monocots - pub-
lished in April 1963). The most important parts of this volume
are the classical treatment of sedges (genus Carex) by T.V.
Egorova and Tolmachev's treatment of Juncaceae. Egorova's dis-
cussions of taxonomical problems of sedges growing in the Rus-
sian Arctic are relevant to Canadian and North American readers
and anybody with even only a slight interest in Carex will find
an important reference in this publication. The translator,
G.C.D Griffiths, and the English edition editor, J.G. Packer,
should be commended for their work on this volume.
The price of this volume is prohibitive and put this useful
publication out of reach of many students who should have it in
their reference library. According to the Acknowledgements and
according to the promotional note, only a part of this volume
was funded by the NSERC grant. As a result, this volume costs
almost twice as much as the first volume (cf. BEN # 132), and
yet it is only about two thirds the size of the first volume.
The University of Alberta Press did an excellent job in produc-
ing the first two volumes of this English edition. Compared with
the paperbacks printed on ugly newsprint paper of the Russian
edition, this English edition looks like a limited bibliophile
edition, but we have to pay comparably high price for it. Can
NSERC help again? (NSERC = Natural Science and Engineering
Research Council, the principle academic granting agency in
Canada)
Please send orders to:
UBC PRESS
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Tel.: (604) 822-5959
Fax: 1-800-668-0821 (toll-free within North America)
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email: orders@ubcpress.ubc.ca
**Special Price for Two Volume Purchase**
Flora of the Russian Arctic, Vol. I & II $175.00
**Special Price for Complete Series**
Order the entire series now and save $200!
Flora of the Russian Arctic, Vols. I-VI $500.00
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TWO BOTANICAL JOBS, SUMMER 1997, IN SMITHERS, B.C.
From: Phil or Carla Burton <symbios@mail.netshop.net>
Symbios Research and Restoration is looking for two field
botanists / ecologists to work on vegetation surveys.
Activities will involve transect and plot layout; recording
tree, snag and windthrow diameters and height; determining
seedling and sapling densities and recent leader growth; vegeta-
tion sampling using line intercept method; and lichen and
bryophyte surveys on rotting logs, tree bases, and (possibly) in
the canopy.
These positions are based in Smithers, B.C. You will be respon-
sible for your own accommodation and meals.
We are particularly looking for individuals with strong LICHEN
AND BRYOPHYTE IDENTIFICATION SKILLS. Work will start June 2 and
will continue to the end of August, 1997.
If interested in one of these positions, please contact me prior
to April 30:
Carla Burton, Symbios Research and Restoration
Box 3398, Smithers, B.C. V0J 2N0
Tel. 250-847-0247 Fax. 250-847-0278
e-mail: symbios@mail.netshop.net
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