From aceska@victoria.tc.ca Thu Jan 15 01:44:30 2004 From: aceska@victoria.tc.ca (Adolf Ceska) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:44:30 -0800 Subject: [BEN-L]BEN # 321 Message-ID: <001001c3db09$21b34050$c776b440@HPLAPTOP001> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C3DAC6.13900050 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BEN=09 BOTANICAL ELECTRONIC NEWS=09 ISSN 1188-603X=09 No. 321 January 14, 2003 aceska@victoria.tc.ca Victoria, B.C.=09 Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 BOTANY BC - ATLIN, BC - JULY 5-7, 2004 >From Del Meidinger [Del.Meidinger@gems2.gov.bc.ca] Information on Botany BC, July 5-7, Atlin, is now posted at the = following URL:=20 http://members.shaw.ca/dmeidinger/botanybc/ ALASKA RARE PLANT FORUM - FAIRBANKS, AK - APRIL 8+9, 2004 The Alaska Rare Plant Forum will hold its 2004 annual meeting April 8h = and 9th in Fairbanks at the Bureau of Land Management, Northern District = Office, 1150 University Avenue. Anyone interested in rare plants of northern regions is invited to = attend or to give a presentation. The purpose of this notice is to alert you of the meeting, and to = solicit speakers and agenda items. Agenda items could include the results of = recent botanical work, descriptions of your field trips, proposals for upcoming field work and presentations describing your ongoing botanical work or research. If you wish to give a presentation, please send your name, a brief description of your presentation and the presentation's approximate = length. We will appreciate hearing about any topics that you would like to see = added to the agenda. Please send this information to me at the address below. An agenda will be sent out in late-March. Please contact me if you need = any additional information, you wish to give a presentation, or if you have ideas for agenda items. Exciting botanical work is taking place in our = part of the world, so we look forward to a particularly interesting meeting = of the Alaska Rare Plant Forum. Mary Stensvold U.S.D.A. Forest Service 204 Siginaka Way Sitka, Alaska 99835 telephone: (907) 747-4210 e-mail: mstensvold@fs.fed.us WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO BRYOPHYES OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA From: Stephen Talbot [stephen_talbot@fws.gov]=20 Special Three-Day Workshop 20- 22 May 2004 SHELDON JACKSON COLLEGE 801 Lincoln St., Sitka, Alaska 99835 Principal leader: Dr. W. B. Schofield Department of Botany University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T1Z4 The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U. S. Forest Service are Sponsoring a workshop, 20 - 22 May 2003 at SHELDON JACKSON COLLEGE in beautiful Sitka, Alaska. Purpose of the Workshop: To gain familiarity with bryophyte genera in southeastern Alaska based on field and microscopic characters, with = strong emphasis on habitats, morphological variation and the living plant. This workshop gives an entry into bryophyte taxonomy and provides the = characters used to discriminate among bryophyte genera, and to an extent, to the species. It will include an introduction to the literature, information = on collecting, storing and annotating collected material for reference, = field experience with collecting, laboratory experience with microscopic examination and use of the literature, and use of artificial keys to aid = in identification. Requirements: Participants should have a hand lens 15 or 20X. Other = useful items include good typewriter paper for preparing moss packets, a = collecting bag, and a pocket knife, putty or paint scraper, or wood chisel. = Students may bring a limited number of specimens that they have collected for determination. Description: The workshop will be held at Sheldon Jackson College (with field trips in the local area) and be limited = to 20 participants. Class times are from 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-5:00 pm. General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to: Stephen = Talbot, Div. of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1011 East = Tudor Road, Anchorage, AK 99503; phone (907) 786-3381, e-mail . Cost of the workshop is $200 and by check = only. To register send your name, mailing and email address and a check not = later than 5 April 2004 made payable to "Sheldon Jackson College" with "Moss Workshop" on the "Memo" line to: Attn: Lem Lambert, Sheldon Jackson College, 801 Lincoln St., Sitka, AK 99835, and notify Stephen Talbot by email that you are registering. Note: You cannot be enrolled until = payment is received. Questions regarding travel, lodging, and the Sitka area = should be sent to: Mary Stensvold, U.S. Forest Service, Sitka; phone (907) 747-4210, e-mail . A general map of Sitka showing = the location of Sheldon Jackson is at . Lodging is available at hotels or in dormitory-style housing on the = Sheldon Jackson campus. Campus housing costs $35/night single occupancy or = $40/night double occupancy. To make reservations call (907) 747-5252 before May = 15, and mention the bryophyte workshop to get this special rate. Information on the presenter: Dr. Wilf Schofield is an internationally = known expert on the bryophytes of the Pacific Rim. He published over 100 = papers, is co-author of 4 textbooks in plant structure and evolution. His = textbook "Introduction to Bryology" (1985) is the standard. His new book "Hepatic Genera of Pacific North America" was published in 2001. Wilf's field experience in mosses goes from 1947 to present, seven summer periods in Alaska, two in Arctic and subarctic Canada. also periods in Australia, = New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, conterminous USA. He is a contributor to bryophyte flora of North America and of Australia. College Credit: 1 semester credit is available from Sheldon Jackson = College. THE LONG HISTORY OF OREGON WHITE ASH (FRAXINUS LATIFOLIA BENTH.) IN = BRITISH COLUMBIA From: Richard J. Hebda [hebda@shaw.ca] For most of the rare plant species in British Columbia we will never = know when they came and how they fared before reaching the status they have today. Such is not the case for Oregon white ash for despite Chris Brayshaw's (1996) musings on page 305 in Trees and Shrubs of British Columbia, the species has a long history in the Province. All ash species produce wind blown pollen and that pollen has a = distinctive form such that it can be reliably distinguished. Being that there is = only one ash species in our region, it should be possible to follow its = history through the extraction and study of pollen from lake and wetland = sediments. Up until recently fossil ash pollen had not been confirmed from B.C. sediments, largely because no one really looked for it and if it was detected it occurred as single grains. The occurrence of single pollen grains of a wind-pollinated species can be attributed to long-distance dispersal. In practice there is also a possibility of confusing ash = pollen with that of a Rumex species, particularly if there are not enough = pollen grains to view all the details clearly. The situation changed with the study of the remarkable sediments from Saanich Inlet obtained by the Ocean Drilling Program vessel JOIDES Resolution. Many tens of metres of annually-layered mud were recovered = in a couple of days of drilling off Brentwood Bay. Marlow Pellatt (now with = Parks Canada), Rolf Mathewes (Simon Fraser University) and I extracted, = identified and counted pollen and spores from more than 10,000 years of record to almost 1000 years of the present (Pellatt et al. 2001). The youngest sediments are so charged with Hydrogen Sulphide gas, that once raised = from sea floor, they liquefied and shot out from pressure release holes = punched into core tubing as if propelled from a geyser. Our analyses provided a single-year picture for every 25 th year of the 10,000 years. As we identified and counted pollen grains, we realized that Fraxinus = pollen occurred in sufficient abundance that we had to pay attention to it = because its presence could no longer be discounted as the result of long = distance transport from many hundreds of kilometres to the south, nor accidental contamination from the modern atmosphere. The first ash pollen grains appear just after 9500 calendar years ago slightly earlier than oak pollen. Though not abundant, there is more ash than oak pollen for the next 1500 years, suggesting that Oregon white = ash grew in the vicinity of the Inlet at this time. The abundance of oak increases markedly about 8200 years ago and oak become a major species = on the landscape until about 6000 years ago. During this time ash seems to nearly disappear or occur so infrequently that it leaves no record. With the decline of oak and increase in conifers, especially western redcedar, about 4000 years ago, ash pollen values rise. Ash pollen = reaches is greatest abundance in the interval 4000-1200 years ago, when the = sediment record ends, strongly suggesting that ash was a notable element of the vegetation of southern Vancouver Island at least to about the beginning = of the last millennium. Preliminary studies of cores suggest that scattered trees may have occurred as far north as the Nanoose area too. Thus the pollen record reveals that ash has been a native species for = nine and half millennia, though it has never been abundant. The occurrence of = a natural population near Port Alberni confirms that it can occur in = non-urban situations. The plants of urban Victoria are likely descendants of = natural, pre-colonial stands that dispersed into and survived in the urban environment. The plants at Government House may even be survivors of an original stand. The trees in James Bay, which prompted Chris Brayshaw to wonder about the native status of the species, may have arrived via = American or returning Canadian tourists. But even these could be descendants of native stands. Like our other rare native species, Oregon white ash deserves our = attention and concern. And like many of those plant species at the northern limits = of their range, it may be part of the flora that will benefit from the inexorable warming in climate of the near future. Though we may speculate upon the origins of modern species' abundance = and distribution, we cannot know how these may have come to be without = evidence from the fossil record. Lucky for us Fraxinus latifolia provided us with one. Reference Pellatt, M.G., R.J. Hebda, & R.W. Mathewes. 2001. High-resolution Holocene vegetation history and climate from Hole 1034B, ODP leg 169S, Saanich Inlet, Canada. Marine Geology 174: = 211-226. =20 WHITEBARK PINE (PINUS ALBICAULIS ENGELM.) DISCOVERED ON MOUNT ASHLAND, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON From: Frank A. Lang, Emeritus Professor of Biology Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR=20 e-mail: [frlang@charter.net] On August 31, 2003, while attending a Forest Service-sponsored trip, to examine the proposed expansion of the Ski Ashland development, I = discovered a whitebark pine tree with a single cone growing near the moraine at the bottom of the bowl on Mount Ashland in the eastern Siskiyous. The trip leaders Steve Johnson of the Forest Service and ski area manager Jeff Hanson, witnessed this event, and another participant confirmed my identification. Surrounding the tree are several small five-needled = saplings that could be whitebark pine or the much more common western white pine. = Two weeks later Jim Duncan and I found a second whitebark pine tree with = cones near a large western white pine on the east edge of a man-made tree = island on the west edge of upper Dream ski run near the entrance to Caliban.=20 As far as I can determine, these are the first documented discoveries of whitebark pine on Mount Ashland (which is 7523 feet in elevation) or in = the eastern Siskiyous. Like Mount Ashland's Engelmann spruce and subalpine = fir, the whitebark pine may offer evidence of a colder climate in the past. = This tiny population is at risk from white pine blister rust and disturbance = from a proposed ski area expansion. The Rogue River National Forest and Mount Ashland Association are aware of these whitebark pine trees. Hopefully = they will make every effort to avoid damaging them. Possibly other observers = have seen whitebark pines on this mountain or other nearby peaks and = photographed or collected specimens, but failed to report the find. I would = appreciate learning about any documented reports. [The author address is 535 Taylor Street, Ashland, OR 97520; phone (541) 482-5235; or frlang@charter.net] Reprinted by permission and modified from Nutcracker Notes, Issue 5, Fall/Winter 2003, Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation. p. 11. INTRODUCED SLUGS ARE DAMAGING THREATENED ORCHID IN NEW HAMPSHIRE From: Lionel Chute [lchute@dred.state.nh.us] As an enthusiastic reader of both BEN, PEN and ZEN, I wanted to share=20 something brief with you regarding slugs here in New Hampshire Around 1984, staff and volunteers of the New England Wildflower Society noticed that slugs were significantly damaging an important New = Hampshire population of the Federally-threatened orchid, the small whorled pogonia Isotria medeoloides (Pursh) Raf. They collected a specimen of the slug = and sent it to the Smithsonian to identify, who in turn passed it on to a = slug specialist located somewhere in the southwest (Arizona? New Mexico?). = This person keyed out the slug (apparently through microscopic analysis of = the slug's teeth!) as the introduced Dusky Arion, Arion subfuscus = (Draparnaud, a species reputed to show strong colonisation capacities and be a major = pest in US agriculture. Since this identification, slug damage to the small whorled pogonia population in New Hampshire has continued annually, = reducing the number of plants as well as the number of stems bearing seed = capsules. It is not currently known if Dusky Arion has any particular affinity for small whorled pogonia, nor to what extent Dusky Arion may be = contributing to the ongoing decline of known small whorled pogonia populations = throughout its natural range. VIDEO-ON-LINE: POMPEII OF THE NORTHWEST From: David Russell [derzak@hotmail.com], originally posted in Research = in Quaternary Science [quaternary@morgan.ucs.mun.ca] Friends and colleagues: In 1971, a Seattle television station carried = two programs about wet-site excavations at the Ozette Site, which has been called the "Pompeii of the Northwest." We are proud to bring you the = first of these programs as People of the Whale, Part 1, the latest video = offering on our public education website, The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org). Located on the outer coastline of Washington's Olympic Penninsula, the Ozette Site yielded the perfectly preserved remains of a pre-contact = Makah village beneath a series of mudslides. This made-for-TV program depicts archaeological fieldwork at Ozette in 1970, the first of 12 seasons of = work that recovered 55,000 artifacts now displayed at the Makah Cultural and Research Center in Neah Bay, Washington. The archival footage in this = film is destined to be a key resource for those studying and teaching the = history of North American archaeology. This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment. = If you feel that this project is a worthy endeavor, please participate in = our Membership (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) and = Underwriting (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.html) programs. Only with = your help can we continue and enhance this nonprofit public-education and visitor-supported service. We also welcome new content partners as we = reach out to the world community. 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T1JJQVRDQ0FWSUNUT1JJQSxCQ0RSQUNFU0tBLFBPQgAAAACniQ== ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C3DAC6.13900050-- From aceska@victoria.tc.ca Thu Jan 29 08:16:50 2004 From: aceska@victoria.tc.ca (Adolf Ceska) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:16:50 -0800 Subject: [BEN-L]BEN # 322 Message-ID: <000101c3e640$3f5dc070$9a70b440@HPLAPTOP001> BBBBB EEEEEE NN N ISSN 1188-603X BB B EE NNN N BBBBB EEEEE NN N N BOTANICAL BB B EE NN NN ELECTRONIC BBBBB EEEEEE NN N NEWS No. 322 January 29, 2003 aceska@victoria.tc.ca Victoria, B.C. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 ----------------------------------------------------------- BRUCE DOUGLAS RYAN (1950-2004) From: CaliforniaLichens@yahoogroups.com (Submitted by Thomas H. Nash III) We regret reporting that Bruce Douglas Ryan passed away last night (January 21, 2004), after battling cancer for the past two years. Somehow he has made his peace with the disease, and was amazingly cheerful up to the end. Bruce is survived by his parents, who are both in a nursing home near Seattle. Bruce was born on September 13th, 1950, in Los Angeles and was educated in Florida and Washington. He received a B.A. degree at Washington State University in 1976, a M.S. degree from Western Washington University in 1981 and a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1989. Bruce was an enthusiastic member of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society, The International Association of Lichenology, The Northwest Lichen Guild and the California Lichen Society. Through extensive collecting and laboratory research, he became one of the major experts in the identification of lichens from the western U.S. and was a specialist in _Lecanora_ subgenus _Placodium_. As the Associate Curator for the Arizona State University lichen herbarium, he was a major contributor to both Vol. I (published 2002) and Vol. II (nearing publication) of the _Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region_. PLANT RESCUE, AN ETHICAL CONFUSION From: Moralea Milne [moralea@telus.net], originally published as "The Ethics of Plant Rescue" in _The Victoria Naturalist_ 60.4(2004): 8-9. The Victoria Native Plant Study Group (NPSG) has been in the forefront of the plant rescue movement. By negotiating with developers we save native plants, even some quite rare ones, from sure eradication under the blades and tracks of land clearing machinery. Since you must be a member of our organization to participate and as more people hear about the rather new concept of harvesting native plants from sites that are earmarked for immediate development, they join our group and we benefit from increased membership and the attendant annual fees. Sometimes these rescued plants are used in our gardens or sometimes they are donated to restoration projects throughout the Victoria area. Sometimes the seeds and cuttings are used to propagate more plants in nurseries and further the native plant gardening movement. These all seem to be activities that we can and should support. But I wonder... Spring 2002 and 2003 saw a huge plant rescue operation at what came to be known as the Langvista sites in Langford. Early spring 2002 found myself an eager participant in plant rescue activities. I was delighted to be able to save native plants from certain obliteration and provide my own property and a native plant garden I was attempting to create on my local municipal grounds with often expensive and hard to find native plant material. We all carefully followed the rules laid out by the developers and stayed well out of covenanted areas, glad to know some of the site's natural beauty and plant community was protected. I did give a moments pause to wonder where the many birds displaying territorial behaviour would be nesting this year. However there was a beautiful intact site across the road they could migrate to and I ignored the obvious, which was; that site would already have it's full complement of birds asserting their territories. Overall, I felt good about myself and my efforts. Early 2003 myself and a friend bid on the contract to remove broom from the covenanted areas on this now developed site. Through this work we learned that the area across the road, the back side of Mill Hill Capital Regional District Park, was also about to be developed. I consulted with the developers and found they were amenable to further plant rescue operations at this new site. NPSG membership grew as word of the wealth of plant material at this site filtered through the native plant enthusiast community. This site was so amazing, everyone commented on the abundance and diversity of plant material. There were a few blue-listed _Isoetes nuttallii_, literally thousands of _Allium amplectens_, only recently declassified as a blue-listed species, both species indicative of an uncommon vernal wetland ecosystem. Some of the plants collected include: _Delphinium menziesii_, _Sisyrinchium douglasii_ (now _Olsynium_), _Allium accuminatum_ and _A. cernuum_, _Piperia_ spp., _Spiranthes romanzoffiana_, _Calypso bulbosa_, _Erythronium oregonum_, _Camassia_ spp., _Ranunculus occidentalis_, _Brodiaea coronaria_, _Triteleia hyacinthina_, _Fritillaria affinis_, _Saxifaga occidentalis_ and _S. cespitosa_, _Lithophragma parviflorum_, _Eriophyllum lanatum_, _Lupinus bicolor_, _Clinopodium chamissoi_, _Lilium columbianum_, _Dodecatheon hendersonii_ and _D. pulchellum_, _Trifolium willdenowii_, _Mimulus_ spp., _Collinsia grandiflora_ var. _pusilla_, _Plectris congesta_, _Grindelia intergrifolia_, various native grasses, such as _Danthonia californica_, _Elymus glaucus_, _Festuca roemeri_, _Bromus_ spp., and _Stipa lemmonnii_, ferns _Aspidotis densa_, _Pentagramma triangularis_, _Cystopteris fragilis_, _Polystichum munitum_ and _P. imbricans_, many unidentified mosses, lichens and fungi and there were large numbers of virtually all these plants. Some sharp-eyed members harvested _Aster curtus_, designated red-listed in British Columbia. All these species begs the question, what did we miss? What other rare jewels were not apparent to our non-expert eyes? Mill Hill Park has recently been inventoried by Hans Roemer and he has found many more species and occurrences of rare plants than was previously thought to exist there. It is logical to consider the same would be true at this adjacent site. This year brought a shift in my perceptions and I didn't feel quite so lucky to be involved in the "good works" of plant rescue, rather I felt increasingly sickened by the destruction and plunder of this hugely productive, rich, rare association of ecosystems. When someone declared they felt like "a kid in a candy store", I really started to wonder at the appropriateness of what we were doing. This was no candy store that could be restocked with old favourites. It took many thousands of years to produce the assemblage of plants and animals at this site. Nothing we attempt in our lifetimes could ever replace the astonishing environment that was lost. When I consider the number of people who made many repeated trips to this site to rescue plants, I wonder what could have been accomplished had that same time and energy been directed towards saving the site. I have heard the developers were willing to sell the site to CRD Parks. What if we had worked with the District of Langford, CRD Parks, GOERT, NGOs, the provincial and the federal governments? Could we have preserved this immensely rich and biodiverse community for future generations? Garry oak ecosystems are considered one of the three most endangered ecosystems in Canada, only a tiny fraction remains, and through our ignorance and inactivity we let a piece of the best of the last remnants be destroyed. Perhaps if we had not been so focused on "rescuing" individual plants we could have rescued an entire ecosystem. What good are the plants that we saved really? They have become mere gardening material rather than part of a dynamic ecosystem, is that a worthwhile trade? Since this spring I have not participated in further "plant rescue" opportunities. I feel ambivalent about the value and appropriateness of this activity. Should we focus our limited resources on plant rescue? Or would the enthusiastic members of the plant rescue corps harness the power of their combined energies to the preservation of endangered ecosystems? Does the immediate gratification of "owning" rescued plants outweigh the long and sometimes arduous struggle to protect and preserve our natural heritage? Does the diplomacy involved in securing plant rescue options on a site preclude the ability to fight for the preservation of the site? Is there even an organization that is working to prioritize the acquisition of the last relics of our Garry oak ecosystems? Perhaps if I could be sure that we had explored all possible avenues to protect and preserve every remaining significant Garry oak and associated ecosystem site, then "plant rescue" operations would be worthwhile endeavours. At the moment I find myself sitting on the fence of indecision, staring at the crossroads of choice and I ask myself this question: if there is only a limited time left, what would I want to leave as my legacy? PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENTS Zika P.F. 2003. _A Crater Lake National Park Vascular Plant Checklist_. Crater Lake (OR): Crater Lake Natural History Association. 92p. ISBN 0-9642124-3-9 Spiral Bound. $14.95 US plus shipping and handling. Available from: Crater Lake Natural History Association, P.O. Box 157, Crater Lake, OR 97604. Phone: (541) 594-3111. http://www.nps.gov/crla/nha.htm Peter F. Zika's annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Crater Lake National Park includes 682 documented species. Species are arranged by family. Accepted name, synonyms, common name, ecological information, park location(s), and miscellaneous notes are given for each species. - Frank A. Lang [frlang@charter.net] Weber, William A. [Editor] 2004. _The Valley of the Second Sons: Letters of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, a young English naturalist, writing to his sweetheart and her brother about his life in West Cliff, Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado 1887- 1890_. Pilgrims Process, Inc., Longmont, CO. 592 p. ISBN 0-9710609-9-1 [soft cover] Price: US$39.95 Available from: http://www.barnesandnoble.com or http://www.amazon.com or direct from the publisher: Pilgrims Process, Inc. 6 Niblick Drive Longmont, CO 80503-8316 http://www.pilgrimsprocess.com "_In giving us T. D. A. Cockerell up close and personal, William A. Weber has delivered a very valuable and interesting look at a period when science and education on the American frontier were at their earliest stages, and dependent on the heart and vision of an intrepid few._" Edward O. Wilson Harms, Vernon L. 2003. _Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan and the Provincially and Nationally Rare Native Plants in Saskatchewan_. University Extension Press, University of Saskatchewan Publication Date: 2003 0-88880-471-7 $39.95 A complete, updated checklist of the native and naturalized vascular plants found in Saskatchewan, including a subset of provincially and nationally rare plants, with their rarity ratings from a variety of sources. This is not an identification guide but a reference list with full botanical names, author-citations, synonyms, commmon names, and abundance estimates, for specialists such as botanists, enviornmentalists, and researchers. Hameed, C.A., K.P. Rajesh, & P.V. Madhusoodanan, P.V. 2003. _Filmy Ferns of South India_. Penta Book Publishers & Distributors, Calicut. 260 p. For copies contact: M/s. Penta Book Publishers & Distributors Darussalam Complex, Mavoor Road, Calicut, Kerala- 673 004, INDIA pentabooks@yahoo.com The filmy ferns are a unique group of plants among pteridophytes characterised by sporangia aggregated on cylindrical receptacles enclosed in characteristically shaped indusia and the one cell thick, delicate lamina lacking stomata. This book is the first of its kind on these delicate plants of the Western Ghats, one among the biodiversity hotspots of the world. Owing to their delicate plant body these plants are confined to the deeply shaded pristine evergreen forests, usually in the spray zones of waterfalls, on rocks and boulders of streamlets or attached to the bark and buttresses of shrubs and trees near the perennial water sources. This book is the result of extensive field studies done by the authors in the dense and deep evergreen forests of the Western Ghats of Southern India. Well-illustrated detailed accounts of 28 South Indian filmy ferns are provided in this book with updated nomenclature (5 new combinations) and ecological notes. ________________________________________________________________ Subscriptions: http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/ben-l Send submissions to aceska@victoria.tc.ca BEN is archived at http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ ________________________________________________________________