Special Issue of Madroño—Bryoflora of California
The California Botanical Society (CBS) is pleased to announce that the California moss catalogue and key to species by Daniel H. Norris and James R. Shevock will appear in Madroño, A West American Journal of Botany as Volume 51 issues 1 and 2, 2004.
Norris, D. H. and J. R. Shevock 2004a. Contributions toward a bryoflora of California. I. A specimen-based catalogue of mosses. Madroño 51: 1-131.
______ 2004b. Contributions toward a bryoflora of California. II. A key to the mosses. Madroño 51:132-269.
Doyle, W.T. and R.E. Stotler. 2006. Contributions toward a bryoflora of California. III. Keys and annotated species catalogue for liverworts and hornworts. Madroño 53(2):89-198.
The catalogue lists 596 mosses documented for the state of California. Each species entry contains the following attributes: 1) literature references for that species in California, 2) citation(s) for illustrations, 3) statewide distribution based on physiographic provinces, and 4) citation of representative specimens.
The keys include 731 mosses known to occur in the Pacific States of Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and California. In addition these keys also include mosses recorded from Baja California, Norte, Mexico. Field notes and identification observations are provided for each of the 200 genera covered by these keys.
Part III is similar to the catalogue and key to the mosses; however, this work has the added feature of diagnostic narratives to separate species beyond the use of the keys. The work provides keys and identification narratives for the 150 liverworts and hornworts documented for California. Although written for California, it will be extremely useful for Nevada and southern Oregon.There are no liverworts or hornworts known from Nevada that are not in this work.
Order information: CBS is offering these three works for sale at 15 USD each (includes postage worldwide). An order form can be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat file.
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