From aceska@cue.bc.ca Mon Mar 1 11:51:47 1993 Date: 1 Mar 93 7:34 -0800 From: Adolf Ceska To: ben@cue.bc.ca Subject: BEN # 50 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. 50 February 21, 1993 Address: aceska@cue.bc.ca Victoria, B.C. ---------------------------------------------------- ELVA LAWTON (1896 - 1993) From: Melinda Denton [from ] Elva Lawton died February 3, 1993, at the age of 96, in Seattle, Washington. She retired from Hunter College in New York in 1959 after teaching 31 years and moved to Seattle, where she assumed a Research Associate position in the Herbarium of the Department of Botany at the University of Washington. She collected and studied mosses from western NA, and between 1962-1971, she received grants from NSF to produce a regional moss flora. The comprehensive flora was published in 1971. In addition to this, she published 25 articles, of which 23 were on mosses. Most of these were written in the 34 years that she was associated with UW. She was able to work at the Herbarium nearly every day well into her 90's. A dept. memorial service will be held in Seattle on Monday, March 1. I have prepared a biography of her life, including a list of publications. DIE WEISSE ROSE VON KALIFORNIEN - SHASTA SNOW WREATH From: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, NY Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Novon In May 1992 Dean Taylor and Glenn Clifton stopped at limestone cliffs close to highway 299 east of Redding and found a shrub that turned to be a new species of the genus Neviusia. The plant was described as N. cliftonii (Novon 2: 285-289). Neviusia belongs to Rosaceae, tribe Kerrieae, and its closest relatives Kerria and Rhodotypos occur in eastern Asia. Neviusia was considered a monotypic genus with a single rare species, N. alabamensis, known only from several localities in AL, AR, GA, MS, and TN. With one more day of additional field work, botanists located two more populations of N. cliftonii along Shasta Lake, all of them within a radius of about 15 miles. No fossil records of Neviusia were reported, by just at the time of discovery, Jack Wolfe and Wesley Wehr (Burke Museum in Seattle, WA) decided that some fossil leaves from the Eocene Princeton formation of British Columbia belonged in Neviusia. JEPSON MANUAL From: Adolf Ceska I was in the UC herbarium in Berkeley last Friday, Feb. 26, and the place was a bedlam. The printers had just delivered the first shipment of the Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California for distribution to the general public. Everybody was running around with a heavy brown cardboard box and the place was full of excitement. Yes, the Jepson Manual is out ! I will tell you a little secret on how to get your copy. Send a check for $45.00 payable to "Friends of the Jepson Herbarium" and mail it to the Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 as a MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL CONTRIBUTION. If you send a contribution of $45 (or more), you will become a member of the "Friends" and receive a complimentary copy of the Jepson Manual. This offer expires April 1, 1993, and no, folks, this is not an April joke. Please print your address and phone number on your "membership renewal application" and be patient, Jepson Herbarium has only small staff to answer all requests. SCHOFIELD: SOME COMMON MOSSES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - 2nd EDITION From: Tara Steigenberger The second (revised and expanded) edition of the popular Museum Handbook no. 28 was published by the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria and costs $12.95 Canadian. Individuals order from The Royal Museum Shop at 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 1X4, Tel (604) 356-0505, Fax (604) 356-8197. The Shop charges $1.50 shipping and handling per book. Please add 7% GST to total order. Major credit cards, purchase orders, personal cheques, money orders accepted. Resale outlets and institutions order from CROWN Publications, Inc. at 546 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, V8W 1K8, Tel (604) 386-4636, Fax (604) 386-0221. Major credit cards, purchase orders, personal cheques, money orders accepted.