Contents Table des matières The Canadian Botanical President’s Message page 25 Motions adopted at the AGM Association Bulletin page 26 Editor’s Message / Message du rédacteur page 26 Lawson Medal - Mary E. Elliott Award 2005 Vipen Sawhney page 27 CBA Student Awards 2005 page 28 Bulletin de l’Association Papers / Articles botanique du Canada October/ Octobre 200 5 • Volume 38 No. / No 3 Poorly Known Economic Plants of Canada - 46. Black chokeberry ().Photinia melanocarpa President’s message E. Small and P.M. Catling pages 29-34 Dear CBA/ABC member: The Global Taxonomy Initiative Mark Graham Hope you are all having an exciting and enjoyable summer. A year has gone by pages 35-36 since I took over as the President and I feel that although we have moved forward on a few things, there is still a lot to be accomplished. News from the Teaching Section Christine D. Maxwell First of all, I would like to thank all of you for your support in the last year. In page 37 particular, I want to thank all members of the Board who truly have done an outstanding job in each of their respective responsibilities. We are grateful to the Book Reviews / Revues de livres out-going executive membersChristine Maxwell , the secretary, and Roisin pages 38-43 Mulligan, the Vice-President, for their dedicated service and enormous help to the Association. We welcomeMarian Munro as the new secretary and Daya F.S. Gilliam and M.R. Roberts: The Herbaceous Layer in Forests Dayanandan as the Vice-President and I look forward to working with them. The of Eastern North America complete list of new Board members is available on the website: www.cba-abc.ca Barbara V. Ramovs and on page 44 of this issue. J. Barker: Encyclopedia of North American Wild Flowers By all accounts, thePlant Canada 2005 meeting at Edmonton in June was a big Erika E. Gaertner success. This was the first time six plant-related Canadian societies got together under the umbrella of Plant Canada and it was a rewarding experience to get to T. Dickinson, et al.: The ROM Field Guide know colleagues from our sister societies. With over 500 registrants, the task of To Wildflowers of Ontario. organizing this meeting was a mammoth one and the credit goes to Mike Luc Brouillet Deyholos, Chair of the local organizing committee and his organizing team, and a large number of student volunteers for doing an outstanding job. The CBA/ABC R.L. Peterson, H. Massicotte, and L.H. Melville: Mycorrhizas: Anatomy and Cell Biology. representatives on the organizing committee wereRoisin Mulligan and Randy Bryce Kendrick Currah and our heart-felt thanks to them for all their hard work and for looking after the various needs of our society and its members. The meeting had an Miroslav M. Grandtner: Elsevier’s Dictionary of Trees. excellent series of plenary sessions, several symposia, and a number of oral Marcel Blondeau presentations and poster sessions on a wide variety of topics. The quality of speakers and presentations was excellent. With a large number of interesting J. Dawson and R. Lucas: The Nature of Plants: sessions at a time, one often had a hard time making a choice. The social Habitats, Challenges, and Adaptations. Jeff M. Saarela program included a number of excursions and field trips, a barbeque and a very enjoyable and entertaining banquet at the Fort Edmonton Park. Overall, it was a very stimulating and exciting meeting, and it was wonderful to meet many new Communiqué Exposition virtuelle: Marie-Victorin. L’itinéraire colleagues and to visit with old friends. d’un botaniste. page 43 I am very pleased to report that at the Plant Canada meeting CBA/ABC gave out The CBA Board of Direction 2005-2006 / a number of awards. TheLawson medal was awarded to Denis Barabé of the Le bureau de direction de l’ABC 2005-2006 Jardin Botanique de Montréal and the University of Montréal for his life time page 44 contribution to botany for his research on flower development, phyllotaxy and (continued on next page) CBA / ABC Bulletin 38(3) 25 President’s Message (continued from preceding page ) Canadian symmetry in plants. TheMary E. Elliott award went to Paul Catling of the Botanical Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, for his Association service to CBA/ABC in various capacities over many years (citations for both these awards appear on page 27 in this issue of the Bulletin). There were several Bulletin excellent student presentations, both oral and posters, at the meeting and the The CBA Bulletin is issued quarterly (in theory judges for the Lionel Cinq-Mars and Iain and Sylvia Taylor awards committees in March, June, September, and December) and sent to all CBA members. had a difficult time selecting the best presentations. Indeed, for the Cinq-Mars award there was a tie and there were also two Honorable mentions. The names of Information for submitting texts the winners for both these awards and titles of their presentations appear on page All members are welcome to submit texts in the 28 in this issue. form of papers, reviews, comments, essays, requests, or anything related to botany or botanists. Any medium is acceptable for This year CBA/ABC gave out four John Macoun Travel Bursaries to students from submission but electronic documents are likely different parts of the country to attend the Plant Canada 2005 meeting. However, to speed up the publication. For detailed there were only four applications for travel bursary and I encourage students, and directives on text submission, please go to the Editor’s web site: http://www.umce.ca/cours/ the supervisors to coax their students, to apply for these bursaries and to present martin/CBA_ABC_Editor/ or feel free to contact their research at the annual meetings. I am also pleased to report that this year the Editor (see below). For general info on the following student paper awards were made: Stan Rowe award in ecology, CBA, go to the web site: http://www.cba- abc.ca Leulla K. Weresub award in mycology, and Taylor Steeves award in structure and development. The Porsild prize in systematics was not awarded this year and I must again ask students and their supervisors to submit the best student papers Association for each of these awards. The winners of the student paper prizes, along with the titles of their papers, and the recipients of the John Macoun Travel Bursary are botanique listed on page 28 in this issue. du Canada At the AGM in Edmonton a number of important decisions were made and a Bulletin summary of those is provided by Martin Dubé, the editor of the Bulletin (see Le Bulletin de l’ABC paraît quatre fois par année, normalement en mars, juin, septembre below). The complete minutes of the AGM are available at the CBA/ABC website. et décembre. Il est envoyé à tous les membres de l’ABC. My best wishes to you all for an exciting and rewarding autumn. Soumission de textes Tous les membres de l’Association sont invités Cheers, à envoyer des textes de toute nature Vipen Sawhney, CBA/ABC President concernant la botanique et les botanistes (articles, revues de publication, commentaires, requêtes, essais, etc.). Tous les supports de texte sont acceptés. L’utilisation de documents Motions adopted at the AGM électroniques peut accélérer la publication. Pour des renseignements détaillés sur la soumission de textes, veuillez consulter le site According to the AGM minutes (I did not attend the meeting), the following web du rédacteur: http://www.umce.ca/cours/ motions were carried by a working majority: -Brian Husband , Rodger Evans martin/CBA_ABC_Editor/ et n’hésitez pas à andHugo Cota Sánchez stay as directors for a scond term (2006-2008); - contacter le rédacteur (voir ci-dessous). Infos générales sur l’ABC à l’url suivant: Marian Munrobecomes the association’s secretary (2006-2008); - S. Daya http://www.cba-abc.ca Dayanadan is nominated as Vice President (2005-2006); - The number of issues of the Bulletin is reduced from four to three per annum; - The third coming issue Editor / Rédacteur will be electronic. Those members willing to continue to receive paper copies will Martin Dubé get it at extra cost (nominal) per annum (free for retired people). M.D. Campus d’Edmundston Université de Moncton Propositions adoptées à l’assemblée générale annuelle Edmundston, NB CANADA E3V 2S8 Trois directeurs, Brian Husband,et, Rodger Evans Hugo Cota Sánchez Téléphone / Phone (506) 737 5154 entament un second mandat (2006-2008). Marian Munro prend la succession de Télécopieur / Fax (506) 737 5373 Courriel / E-mail : Christine Maxwell au poste de secrétaire (2006-2008). S. Daya Dayanadan [email protected] devient vice-président (2005-2006). Dorénavant, le Bulletin est publié trois fois par année (et non quatre). Le troisième futur numéro sera électronique. Les Next issue / Prochain numéro membres désirant recevoir une copie papier devront débourser un léger Texts for the next issue,38 ( 4 ), must be supplément annuel (sauf les retraités). M.D. received beforeNovember 15th , 2005. La date de tombée des textes du prochain numéro, le no38 ( 4 ), est le 15 novembre 2005. Editor’s Message / Message du rédacteur Published in Edmundston, on September 27th , I heartly thanks those members whospontaneously sent their texts for publication 2005. Publié à Edmundston, le 27 septembre 2005. and those other members who kindly accepted my requests for texts. ISSN 0008-3046 Je remercie vivement les membres qui m’ont soumisspontanément des textes et ceux qui ont répondu favorablement à messollicitations de textes. 26 38(3) CBA / ABC Bulletin Lawson Medal - 2005 Lawson medal is the most prestigious award of the Canadian Botanical Association and was established in 1969 in honor of Prof.