From aceska at telus.net Wed Oct 17 00:31:34 2007 From: aceska at telus.net (Adolf Ceska) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:31:34 -0700 Subject: [BEN-L]BEN # 382 Message-ID: <002501c8104c$b0b15630$e0ef059a@xphome> =20 BBBBB EEEEEE NN N ISSN 1188-603X BB B EE NNN N =20 BBBBB EEEEE NN N N BOTANICAL BB B EE NN NN ELECTRONIC BBBBB EEEEEE NN N NEWS No. 382 October 16, 2007 aceska@telus.net Victoria, B.C. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 ----------------------------------------------------------- EDWARD L. TISCH (OCTOBER 28, 1937 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2007) From: Ed Schreiner and Diane Doss It is with great sadness we must report the passing of Ed Tisch. Ed was a botanist and teacher extraordinaire, spending 41 years=20 teaching biology and botany in Port Angeles, Washington at=20 Peninsula College. Ed Tisch joined Peninsula College in 1966,=20 just one year after classes began on the present campus.=20 Ed was a friend and mentor to many, including us. His boundless=20 enthusiasm for the natural world, particularly plants, was=20 contagious. During his teaching career he taught on the order of=20 9,000 students including Nelsa and H.W. Buck Buckingham and one=20 of us (Diane Doss). Ed was a gentle teacher. His many-colored,=20 exquisitely detailed chalk drawings would grow clear across the=20 front board of his classroom, giving his students the x-ray=20 vision to know plants inside and out. Within a few weeks of=20 beginning his introductory botany course, the world was=20 transformed.=20 Some of our lives were transformed, too. During the second week=20 of her first class with Ed, Diane decided to follow in Ed's=20 footsteps and teach college botany herself. Buck Buckingham, a=20 retired Navy Chaplain, became so enthusiastic about botany=20 because of Ed; he took the evening class several times and=20 created (we presume with Ed) an arboretum containing all but=20 three or four species of shrubs and trees native to the Olympic=20 Peninsula on his own property. It was in Ed's class that Buck=20 met (and later married) Nelsa Morrison. The collaboration of Ed,=20 Nelsa, and Buck led to publication of _Vascular Plants of the=20 Olympic Peninsula, Washington: A Catalog_ in 1979 (published by=20 the National Park Service University of Washington Cooperative=20 Park Studies Unit, College of Forest Resources, Seattle), and=20 later, a list of 100 or so native plants not previously known to=20 occur on the Olympic Peninsula. (N. M. Buckingham and E. L.=20 Tisch. 1983. Additions to the native vascular flora of the=20 Olympic Peninsula, Washington. _Madrono_ 30 (4): 67-78.). For those of us fortunate enough to know Ed Tisch it is not=20 difficult measure his stature as a botanist and ecologist. =20 People who did not know Ed have no idea of the magnitude of his=20 contribution to botany, particularly with regard to the Olympic=20 Peninsula. Consequently we wish to share some insights. The Olympic Peninsula in the far northwest corner of Washington=20 State was initially explored by a number of well-known botanists=20 beginning with Archibald Menzies and the Vancouver expedition (he=20 discovered _Opuntia fragilis_ at Discovery Bay), and followed by=20 Charles Pickering in 1841, Professor Louis F. Henderson in 1890=20 (who produced the first OP list of 500 plants), Charles V. Piper=20 (first Washington State Flora), and J. B. Flett (Flora of Mount=20 Rainier, collected type specimens of the OP endemics _Erigeron=20 flettii_, _Synthyris pinnatifida_ var. _lanuginosa_, [now _S.=20 lanuginosa_], and _Viola flettii_. Flett became friends with E.=20 B. Webster, a local publisher. Encouraged by Flett, Webster=20 collected plants and provided extensive local knowledge to=20 botanists exploring the area between 1900 and 1915. Webster's=20 collection of over 600 plants (including collections by Flett)=20 was donated to Olympic National Park and provides the foundation=20 of the ONP herbarium. Between 1930 and 1940, an additional 1200=20 or so specimens were added to the ONP herbarium. It was during=20 this period of time that G. N. Jones was working on the Olympic=20 Peninsula, ultimately publishing A Botanical Survey of the=20 Olympic Peninsula in 1938 (University of Washington Press=20 Publications in Biology Number 5). This book was the first=20 comprehensive look at the OP flora and serves as a benchmark. =20 Ed Tisch arrived on the Olympic Peninsula in 1966; the first of=20 his more than 100 specimens in the ONP herbarium is dated 31=20 August, 1966. Up to that point there were approximately 2200=20 vascular plant specimens in the park herbarium; today there are=20 nearly 8,000 specimens. Of these, more than half are=20 attributable to Ed, his students, and friends. Ed Tisch=20 initiated modern botanical exploration of, and a renewed interest=20 in the unique flora of the Olympic Peninsula. In addition to=20 encouraging botanical exploration of the Peninsula, Ed discovered=20 two previously undescribed taxa: _Saxifraga tischii_ Skelly and=20 _Corallorhiza maculata_ (Raf.) Raf. var. _ozettensis_ E.L. Tisch. =20 Botanically, Edward L. Tisch followed in the footprints of=20 giants. Ed Tisch was a man of many talents. For example, as a schoolboy=20 in Upstate New York, Tisch won a poetry contest judged by Sylvia=20 Plath, and met Robert Frost, personally. In 1974 he co-founded=20 the _Foothills Poetry Series_ (now the _Foothills Writers=20 Series_) along with Peninsula College English professor Jack=20 Estes and local poets Tim McNnulty and Mike O'Connor. Ed=20 continued to write poetry, publishing several in a special book=20 _At the Open End of a Flower_, produced in 2004. =20 Ed inspired many people in many ways. We were quite touched by a=20 letter read at the Celebrate the Life of Ed Tisch at Peninsula=20 College from four families in Chile (where Ed was a in the very=20 first group of Peace Corps Volunteers). One of the writers said,=20 "I became an engineer because of Ed." Ed continued to visit and=20 correspond with people he met in Chile for more than 40 years. =20 He also inspired Schreiner's wife to begin running - she still=20 runs, 35 years later. He inspired Doss to teach botany and=20 horticulture - the list goes on. Ed received his M.S. from the University of Montana and his B.A.=20 from the University of Arizona. His family is establishing an Ed=20 Tisch scholarship fund at Peninsula College for the study of the=20 natural environment on the North Olympic Peninsula. He will be=20 greatly missed by his wife, Joanne, and three children, Ehrin=20 Tisch of Port Angeles, Jessica Garretson of Anacortes and Joe=20 Ingram of Seattle; two grandchildren, Dylan and Colin, both=20 age 2; brothers John and Jerry Tisch of New York state; and his=20 favorite Aunt Ruth of Prescott, Arizona. And of course, we all miss you, Ed. We will do our best to carry=20 on, trying step into those enormous footprints, and carry your=20 work forward. A potluck Family and Friends celebration of Ed's life will be=20 held on Saturday, October 27 at 2:00 in the Campfire Clubhouse at=20 Jesse Webster Park in Port Angeles.=20 PIPER'S BELLFLOWER [CAMPANULA PIPERI T.J. HOWELL] Haiku from _Olympic Flora_ by Edward L. Tisch The entire sky Leans in all directions Trying to match your blue. WILHELM SUKSDORF'S PROPERTY IN BINGEN, WA FOR SALE From: Terry Trantow, Gorge Heritage Museum, Secretary [tnt4survys@gorge.net] The Wilhelm Suksdorf property in Bingen, WA has been put on the=20 market for $199,000 by the current owners, who are going through=20 a divorce. That price is not supported by the dropping local real=20 estate market and was initially priced at $150,000 in early =09 September. The realtor is obligated to forward any offer made to =09 the attorneys for the owners.=09 =09 The West Klickitat County Historical Society [WKCHS] has been =09 working toward the goal of obtaining the original home and moving =09 it onto the Gorge Heritage Museum [GHM] site which is owned and =09 supported by the City of Bingen. =09 The WKCHS has pledged $50,000 towards the purchase of the home & =09 property, which is an important part of State and local history =09 that needs to be preserved. The WKCHS welcomes pledges from =09 those who support this effort in order to purchase and move =09 Wilhelm's home to a safe site. The estimated costs to purchase =09 the property and move/restore the home are as follows:=09 Purchase the home and property: $ 150,000+ (Our initial offer) Moving the home to the GHM site: 25,000 =09 Cost of new foundation/utilities: 20,000 =09 Cleanup of existing lot: 5,000 (with volunteer help) Restoration of house: 20,000 (with volunteer help) Estimated Total Cost: 220,000 =09 Sale of the 9000 sq. foot lot: 90,000+/- GHM pledge: 50,000 Estimated pledge amount required: 80,000+/- =09 (Living only a block away from this historic home, my personal feeling is that a prospective buyer of the property may not want to save this 97 year-old home, so that an agreement to remove it for preservation could be a possibility). =09 If an acceptable agreement is reached, GHM will put out an item=20 in the _White Salmon Enterprise_ and also to our membership for=20 pledges. Would Pacific Northwest botanists also help to save this=20 house by their financial contributions? CANADIAN LIST OF NATURALIZED ALIEN TREES AND SHRUBS - SOME=20 ADDITIONS AND RECENT INFORMATION - 1 From: Paul M. Catling (1) and Frank Lomer (2) (1) Biodiversity, National Program on Environmental Health,=20 Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Wm. Saunders Bldg.,=20 Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6 [catlingp@agr.gc.ca ] (2) 711 Colborne St., New Westminster, BC, Canada V3L 5V6=20 [lomerlomer@hotmail.com ] =09 Continuing interest in the threat of invasive alien species has=20 required a series of updates to the checklist and related=20 information=20 =09 Here the term "naturalized" is used since "invasive" has acquired=20 the meaning of being problematic as a result of displacing native=20 or cultivated species. Some plants that have become naturalized=20 (reproducing and spreading on their own outdoors) are not=20 necessarily problematic. Of course a species that has established=20 may not yet be a serious problem, but it may become problematic,=20 in which case the term "invasive" would apply to it. For=20 information on the risk of invasiveness of woody plants, see the=20 hierarchical predictive model produced by Reichard and Hamilton (1997).=20 JUGLANDACEAE Japanese Walnut, _Juglans ailanthifolia_ Carr. =20 =09 This species was excluded from the British Columbia flora due to=20 lack of persistence (Douglas et al. 1999). However, _Juglans=20 ailanthifolia_ is persistent and established in British=20 Columbia. It is becoming more frequent in Greater Vancouver,=20 usually near river shores and water edges. It is commonly=20 grown, much more so than the eastern butternut (_Juglans=20 cinerea_ L.), and has apparently reached the point where=20 the escaped trees are now old enough to start new trees.=20 Further east in the upper the Fraser Valley there are dozens of=20 trees visible along Highway 1 from Agassiz to Hope. On=20 uninhabited Herrling Island in the Fraser River there is a huge=20 plantation of _Juglans ailanthifolia_, possibly including hybrids=20 with _J. cinerea_, and trees have escaped there as well. It is=20 anticipated that this species will be added to the flora of BC in=20 the next update. =09 Specimens: Rivershore, Herrling Island, 5 km east of Agassiz, BC, 49.2486 =B0N, -121.6861 =B0W, 1995-10-28, Frank Lomer 95-232=20 (UBC); Dyke shore, unnamed island in Fraser River, 2.5 km=20 west of Port Mann Dridge, Surrey, BC, 49.2202 =B0N,=20 -122.8468 =B0W, Frank Lomer 97-593 (UBC). English Walnut, _Juglans regia_ L. Although occasionally grown in southern British Columbia, not=20 previously reported as an escape from cultivation in Canada. At=20 least at present, its limited spread at Osoyoos (specimen cited=20 below) does not represent or suggest a serious problem. In the=20 vicinity of Osoyoos there are trees of various ages from less=20 than 1 m tall to several m tall along roads, ditches and fence=20 lines. These trees appear not to have been planted. Some of the=20 larger of these are producing fruit. These observations suggest=20 reproduction of spreading plants and the species is thus added to=20 the list, although Whittemore & Stone (1997) have suggested that=20 although seedlings are occasionally reported in North America,=20 they rarely if ever live to maturity. English Walnut is easily=20 distinguished from most other walnuts by the glabrous, instead of=20 pubescent fruits, and by the entire, instead of serrated=20 leaflets. Northern California Walnut (_Juglans hindsii_ Jepson ex=20 R.E. Smith) has been widely introduced outside its California=20 range for grafting English Walnut. It is now naturalized in many=20 areas of the west, but can be distinguished by its serrated=20 leaflets.=20 Some of the _Juglans hindsii_ X _J. regia_ hybrids are more=20 difficult to identify (Whittemore & Stone 1997). =20 =09 Specimen: Open roadside of Lakeshore Drive, East Osoyoos,=20 49.0172 =B0N, -119.4345 =B0W, 2007-06-04, P.M. Catling (DAO).=20 TAMARICACEAE Salt-Cedar, _Tamarix ramosissima_ Ledebour =09 A large shrub or small tree, Salt-Cedar is native to Africa and=20 Eurasia. It was introduced into the to the western U.S. in the=20 early 1800s for use as an ornamental and to control erosion. The=20 U.S. Department of Agriculture has ranked it as one of the most=20 harmful invasive species in the U.S. It depletes groundwater,=20 increases surface salt concentration and degrades habitats for=20 native species of plants and animals. Its groundwater-absorbing=20 qualities may be adding to the severity of the drought in the=20 western U.S. Baum (1967) had one record of it in Canada from the=20 Experimental Station in Morden where it was presumably=20 cultivated. In 2007 it was found growing without cultivation and=20 apparently not planted in damp ditches near Penticton (specimen=20 cited below) and on the sandy shores of Osoyoos Lake (at East=20 Osoyoos etc.) where both small and large plants occurred with=20 poplars and native vegetation suggesting natural spread. It was=20 also observed in roadside ditches near Osoyoos. An unidentified=20 species of _Tamarix_ was also observed along a sandy path above=20 Osoyoos Lake on the Osoyoos Indian Reserve northeast of Osoyoos. =20 Although these were the only observations of apparent spread, it=20 was observed many times in the Okanagan valley in cultivation as=20 a garden ornamental. In at least some situations the cultivated=20 plants fail to produce seed so more study is required to=20 determine the origin of the apparently escaped plants.=20 Although Baum reported specimens of _Tamarix chinensis_ Lour.=20 from British Columbia, Ontario, Manitoba and Quebec and noted=20 that it is "cultivated and naturalized to a large extent", it is=20 not clear if there was ever any evidence of naturalization in=20 Canada. Baum also reports having seen records for _Tamarix=20 parviflora_ DC. in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. It=20 is not clear whether or not these referred to cultivated or=20 escaped plants but it was excluded from the British Columbia=20 flora by Douglas et al. (2000) as a result of not persisting in=20 the wild.=20 =09 _Tamarix ramosissima_ differs from other North American species=20 in having all of the staminal filaments inserted under the lobes=20 of the disk but near the margin, 4-merous flowers and sepals more=20 or less entire.=20 =09 Specimen: ditch on E side of hwy 97 on NW side of Penticton,=20 49.5012 =B0N, -119.6171 =B0W, 2007-06-04, P.M. Catling (DAO). =09 For information on other woody plants, either recently=20 established or spreading in Canada, see Catling et al. (1996),=20 Catling & Carbyn (2005) and Catling (2005, 2006, 2007). LITERATURE CITED Baum, B. 1967. Introduced and naturalized Tamarisks in the=20 United States and Canada (Tamaricaceae). _Baileya_=20 15: 19- 25.=20 Catling, P.M. 1997. The problem of invading alien trees and=20 shrubs: Some observations in Ontario and a Canadian=20 Checklist. _Canadian Field-Naturalist_ 111: 338-342. Catling, P. M. 2005. Identification and status of the=20 introduced Black Pine, _Pinus nigra_, and Mugo Pine,=20 _Pinus mugo_, in Ontario. _Canadian Field-Naturalist_=20 119(2): 224-232. =20 Catling, P.M. 2006. False Indigo-bush, _Amorpha fruticosa_ L., an addition to the Ottawa flora and a possible native of the Ottawa valley. _Trail & Landscape_ 40(3): 150-154. Catling, P.M. 2007. Weeping Forsythia, another shrub naturalized in Canada. _Botanical Electronic News_ 378: 1-2. Catling, P. M. and S. Carbyn. 2005. Invasive Scots Pine (_Pinus sylvestris_) replacing Corema (_Corema conradii_)=20 heathland in the Annapolis valley, Nova Scotia, Canada.=20 _Canadian Field-Naturalist_ 119(2): 237-244 Catling, P.M., M.J. Oldham, D.A. Sutherland, V.R. Brownell,=20 and B.M.H. Larson. 1996. The recent spread of Autumn-olive=20 (_Elaeagnus umbellata_) into southern Ontario, and its current status. _Canadian Field-Naturalist_ 111(3):=20 376-380. Douglas, G.W., D. Meidinger and J. Pojar. 2000. _Illustrated=20 flora of British Columbia. Vol. 5, Dicotyledons=20 (Salicaceae through Zygophyllaceae) and Pteridophytes_. British Columbia Ministry of Forests. 389 p. =20 Douglas, G.W., D. Meidinger and J. Pojar. 1999. _Illustrated=20 flora of British Columbian Vol. 3, Dicotyledons=20 (Diapensiaceae through Onagraceae)._ British Columbia Ministry of Forests. 423 p.=20 Reichard, S.H. and C.W. Hamilton. 1997. Predicting invasions of woody plants introduced into North America.=20 _Conservation Biology_ 11(1): 193-203. Whittemore, A.T. and D.E. Stone. 1997. Pp. 425-428 in=20 _Flora of North America_ Editorial Committee, eds. =20 _Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 3,=20 Magnoliophyta: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae._ Oxford=20 University Press, New York, NY. 590 p.=20 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: THE FLORA OF MOUNT ADAMS, WASHINGTON Biek, David & Susan McDougall. 2007. _The Flora of Mount=20 Adams, Washington._ Sound Books, Seattle, WA.=20 ISBN 0-9776285-1-5 [soft cover] iv+474 p.=20 Available from: Sound Books, 13008 37th Ave. NE Seattle , WA 98125 Phone: 206-363-1372 soundbooks@clearwire.net http://mtadamsflora.clearwire.net/ This is the first complete flora ever prepared for Mt. Adams.=20 foot level to the highest reaches of the mountain. The book is=20 similar to the _Flora of Mount Rainier Park_ (see BEN # 251 -=20 June 10, 2000) in size and format and covers 843 species that=20 occur at Mount Adams above the 4,000 foot level, a unique=20 blending of Cascade and sage/steppe floras. Each species is=20 fully described and accurate identification is provided=20 by keys. The keys are relatively simple, but quite reliable. Mount Adams has seldom been visited by botanists since=20 Suksdorf's time. Authors'fieldwork spanned three summers,=20 during which time they collected over 600 vouchers, while=20 off-seasons time was spent in northwest herbaria.=20 The _Flora_ contains many references to the older collections, such as those made by Suksdorf, Flett, Howell and Henderson.=20 Introductory chapters cover the geology, ecology, ethnobotany,=20 and history of botanical explorations of the area. Especially=20 valuable is the comparison of the Mount Adams flora with its=20 more northern neighbour Mount Rainier. The book is an important addition to the knowledge of the flora=20 of the Pacific Northwest. BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: HISTORY OF BOTANY IN NORWAY From: William A. Weber [Bill.Weber@Colorado.EDU] Per Magnus Joergensen, ed. 2007. _Botanikkens historie I Norge_ [_History of Botany in Norway_]. Fagbokforlaget Vignostad & Bjoeke AS, ISBN 978-82-450-0499. 96 pages, profusely illustrated.=20 Price: The price from the editor (on the nettshop) is Norwegian=20 kr. 428, - [One Euro =3D ca. 8 N kr.] Following his editing of the beautiful book on the life and work=20 of Johan Havaas (reviewed in BEN # 354, Dec. 22, 2005) and his=20 numerous papers on Norwegian botanical history, including a=20 recent paper, History of lichenology in Norway up to 1973, in=20 _Bibliotheca Lichenologica_ 95: 41-61. Recently, this preeminent=20 Norwegian lichenologist, world authority of the lichen family=20 Pannariaceae, has produced this exceptional illustrated history=20 of botany in his country. The book is dedicated to the memory of=20 Professor Finn-Egil Eckblad (1924-2000), who had assembled a=20 great amount of material contribution to the subject. This work is in large part the editor's own contribution, and is=20 supported by many other Norwegian botanists whose authorship is=20 noted in the individual chapters. The text helpfully bold-faces=20 all of the personal names of the players in this botanical=20 odyssey. The language throughout is Norwegian, but this should=20 be no drawback to ones enjoyment since it is profusely=20 illustrated in color and black and white. Figure 1 is that=20 of the first plant illustration on a granite stone dating=20 from 500 B.C. The chapters (roughly translated here): 1. Botanical roots - from prehistoric times.=09 2. Early botanical scientists (1535-1753)=09 3. The Linnean period, floristics, and establishment of=20 national institutions (1814-1905)=09 4. The development of all the various disciplines (1905-1964).=20 This chapter, with multiple authorship, occupies the bulk of the volume. It includes applied botany; forestry,=20 dendrology and phenology; experimental and laboratory=20 botany; physiology; cytology; ethnobotany; floristics and=20 taxonomy; floras; botanical art; plant geography;=20 international expeditions; cryptogamic botany including=20 bryology, lichenology, algology, and mycology; paleontology; vegetation and ecology; plant sociology; 5. Afterword: future development and perspectives=09 6. English summary.=09 7. Appendices: Biographies of the major players; Genera named for=20 Norwegian botanists up to 1964; Cited literature 8. Indices: Personal names, plant names, editorial committee=09 The illustrations are stunning and often amusing: portraits,=20 landscapes, handwritten letters, title pages, plant species, old=20 drawings, buildings, cartoons, Professor Scholander as a child,=20 holding a load of red beets. Altogether this is a book that is=20 not only useful for its information, but a joy to pursue at=20 leisure.=09 The book is also reviewed in _Blyttia_ 2007 (2): 73-75. ________________________________________________________________ Subscriptions: http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/ben-l Send submissions to aceska@telus.net BEN is archived at http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ ________________________________________________________________