THE CANADIAN BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 0008-3046 BULLETIN LASSOCIATION BOTANIQUE DU CANADA April 1981 Volume 14 Number 2 Vancouver PATRON HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDWARD SCHREYER, C.C., C,M,M., C.D,, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA PATRON D ' HONNEUR SON EXCELLENCE LE TRES HONORABLE EDWARD SCHREYER, C.C., C.M.M., C.D., GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRALE DU CANADA CBA/ABC ANNUAL MEETING 1981, GUELPH XIII INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS — UPDATE ON TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS Members should now have received the Regis- tration Forms for the 1981 Annual Meeting in Trip #2 is going. All applicants for this Guelph, June 7-11. Late registration fees trip (Depart August 7; one week in New Zealand; proceed to Congress; Return August 29) will apply after April 1, 1981. receive further details soon. This trip has at If you have not received a Form, contact:- least 15 members. Dr. J. Gerrath, Department of Botany and Genet- Trip #1 (Depart August 7; all time in Austra- ics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont N1G 2W1 lia; Return August 29) is still open and, with a few more applicants, it will definitely go. Trip #3 (Depart August 7; one week in the CALL FOR "EMERGENCY RESOLUTIONS" Cook Islands; proceed to Congress; Return August 29) may still go, but subscription is low and Members are reminded that, in accordance with this trip will be cancelled on May 15 unless it By-law 76, ""emergency resolutions" may be sub- fills. mitted to the Board of Directors at any time ALL OTHER TRIPS ARE CANCELLED due to lack of prior to their meeting immediately before the interest. annual meeting. The Board of Directors will Travel and accommodation details, plus as then decide whether they conform to the general many botanical tips as we can gather, will be guidelines for resolutions " circulated to travellers. Meanwhile, GET AN Resolutions submitted under By-law 76 must be UP-TO-DATE PASSPORT. You will hear from the received by the Secretary 10 days before the travel agent about visa requirements before the annual meeting (NO LATER THAN MAY 29, 1981). end of May. "Emergency resolutions" can only be admitted if Dont forget the Abstract deadline — May 15, they deal with an emergency situation, which leaves no time for preparation of a normal 1981. resolution. Please contact the Secretary if you have any Send "emergency resolutions" plus all rele- questions, or you wish to join any of the three vant material to the Secretary: Dr. Iain Taylor, trips above: Dr. Iain Taylor, Dept. of Botany, Secretary, CBA/ABC, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 2B5 V6T 2B1. Phone: (604) 228-2340. 13 NEWS FROM THE SECTIONS OFFICERS OF CBA/ABC 1980-1981 Ecology Section President: Dr. Michael Shaw Univ. of British Columbia Chairman: Dr. K.I. Maclnnes, Site 11, Box 21, Yellowknife, NWT X1A 1H1 Past-President: Dr. Nancy G. Dengler Univ. of Toronto Vice-President: Dr. W.G. Barker General Section Univ. of Guelph Chairman: Dr. R.I. Greyson, Dept. of Plant President-Elect: Dr. J.B. Phipps Sciences, Univ. of Western Ontario, Univ. of Western Ontario London, Ont N6A 5B7 Secretary: Dr. Iain E.P. Taylor Univ. of British Columbia Mycology Section Treasurer: Dr. David Punter Chairman: Dr. J.A. Traquair, Plant Pathology Univ. of Manitoba Section, Agric. Canada Research Directors: Dr. W.G. Barker Station, Lethbridge, Alta T1J 4B1 Univ. of Guelph The time of the Annual CBA/ABC Meeting in Dr. A.B.M. Bouchard Guelph is rapidly approaching, and we hope that Jardin Botanique, Montréal mycologists are planning to attend. In addition Dr. D.T. Canvin to the regular contributed paper and poster Queens Univ. sessions, the Section is initiating the Luella Weresub Memorial Lecture to honor the support Dr. P.F. Maycock and participation of an internationally Erindale College respected member who died in Ottawa on October Dr. M.V.S. Raju 12, 1979. The Lecture this year will be given Univ. of Regina by Bryce Kendrick, distinguished "Hypomycetolo- gist" from the University of Waterloo. Dr. J.S. Rowe Univ. of Saskatchewan Phycology Section Editor Bulletin: Mrs. Sylvia Taylor Chairman: Dr. H.C. Duthie, Dept. of Biology, (ex off.) UBC Botanical Garden Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont Archivist: Dr. W.I. Illman N2L 3G1 Carleton Univ. The Section is planning a symposium on Nano- plankton at the Annual Meeting in Guelph, to be followed by a contributed paper session. We LIONEL CINQ-MARS AWARD hope that many of you can attend, and look forward to a lively meeting. The following regulations have been adopted Systematics Phytogeography Section for the judging of the Lionel Cinq-Mars Award. Chairman: Dr. G.A. Argus, Museum of Natural 1. The Lionel Cinq-Mars Award shall be given Sciences, Botany Division, Ottawa, for the best student paper presented at the Ont K1A 0148 Annual Meeting of the CBA/ABC. 2. Any bona fide student enrolled at any Cana- dian institution of higher learning is eligible. PHYLETIC HEDGE? 3. Guidelines to competitors:- a) The paper will be presented during the Robert F. Thorne, a plant phylogenist and appropriate session as determined by the program evolutionist, has a very personal and charac- committee. teristic writing style. Opinions are strongly stated, and are scattered throughout his publi- b) Adjudication will be on the basis of content, 60% (originality, technical expertise, cations. I found the following quotation very and associated subject knowledge), and presenta- funny, and thought that I would share it:- tion, 40% (lucidity and logical flow, value of Incidentally we should bury for ever visual aids if appropriate, audibility and the metaphor of the phylogenetic tree presence). as highly unrealistic, at least for a J. B. Phipps complex group like the angiosperms Chairman, Judging Panel with numerous main trunks and many Lionel Cinq-Mars Award branches rising through geologic time to the present. The phyletic shrub is a much more accurate metaphor though perhaps a phyletic hedge might be even more appropriate. WELL, DID YOU EVER? (Thorne 1976, p. 56) Problems of drinking and driving are not new, Think the "phyletic hedge" will catch on? it seems. The Romans had legislation trying to (Thorne, R.F. 1976. A phylogenetic classifi- reduce the number of collisions between drunken cation of the Angiospermae. Evol.Biol. 9:35-106) charioteers. Robin Day From: Gardenland 8(2):25 Univ. New Brunswick 14 2ND MARY E. ELLIOTT MYCOLOGICAL FORAY Tricholoma flavovirens (Fr.) Lund Tulostoma simulans Lloyd The 2nd Mary E. Elliott Mycological Foray was held on October 19, 1980, at the Pinery Provin- species deposited in the Mycological Herb- cial Park near Grand Bend, Ontario. The foray arium (ALTA) at the University of Alberta in was hosted by the Department of Plant Sciences Edmonton, Alberta. at the University of Western Ontario, London. The assistance of Mrs. Susan Legeza in arranging laboratory facilities is greatly appreciated. STATUS REPORTS ON ENDANGERED, THREATENED, AND Although the foray was scheduled late in the RARE CANADIAN PLANTS "mushroom" season, about 50 different fungi from diverse taxonomic groups were observed in the varied sand dune and pine-oak stands in this At the April 1980 meeting of the Committee on Lake Huron park. The abundant ascocarps of the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada Cordyceps ophioglossoides parasitizing Harts (COSEWIC), a status report on Pedicularis Truffle (Elaphomyces sp.) were noted with furbishiae S. Wats., written by G. Stirrett, interest, as were the Stalked Puffball Grand Falls, N.B., was considered and the found on sand dunes, and(Tulostoma simulans) the species was placed in the endangered category Delicate Mushroom, Mycena griseoviridis, with a in Canada. This action had a rapid positive distinctive cucumber-like odor when fresh. response from the government of New Brunswick, who, in October 1980, placed it under its Endan- List of Fungi Noted on the 2nd Mary E. Elliott gered Species Act. This result of a COSEWIC Foray, Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario initiative is very gratifying, and underscores the usefulness of preparing status reports on endangered or threatened species. Agaricus silvaticus Vitt. ex Fr. Amanita citrina (Schaeff.) S.F. Gray In response to our request for persons to A. muscaria (Fr.) Hooker write COSEWIC status reports (CBA/ABC Bulletin Apiosporina morbosa (Schw.) von Arx 12(4), October 1980) the World Wildlife Fund is Byssocorticium atrovirens (Fr.) Bmd. Singer now funding the preparation of full length Candelabrum spinulosum van Beverwijk reports on:- Limnanthes macounii Trelease Cantharellula umbonata (Gmelin ex Fr.) Singer (report being prepared by A. O. Ceska, Univ. Clavaria pistillaris (L.) Fr. of Victoria), and on Phegopteris (Dryopteris) Clitocybe adirondackensis Pk. hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée (report being pre- Collybia butyraceae Fr. pared by G. Vincent, Univ. de Montréal, under C. dryophila (Bull, ex Fr.) Kummer the direction of A. Bouchard). Short reports Cordyceps ophioglossoides (Ehr.) Link are being written for 23 taxa that are endemic, Coriolus versicolor (L. ex Fr.) Quél. or of limited distribution, in British Columbia Cortinarius spp. and the Yukon (reports being written by G. Crepidotus fulvotomentosus Pk Douglas, Victoria), and documented maps of Cystoderma granulosum (Morg.) Smith rare New Brunswick plants are being prepared Dacrymyces palmatus (Schw.) Bres. (by H. Hinds, Univ. of New Brunswick). Daldinia repandum (Bolt. ex Fr.) Ces. de Not In addition, status reports are being funded Dentinum repandum (L. ex. Fr.) S.F. Gray by other sources for: Abronia umbellata var. Entoloma lividum Fr. acutalata (Standley) Tillett, Carex arenicola Elaphomyces spp. ssp. pansa (Bailey) Koyama and Calder, and Fomes everhartii (Ell. Gall.) von Schrenk Ophioglossum vulgatum L. (reports being prepared Spaulding by M. Blouw, Univ. of British Columbia, under Hygrophorus conicus (Fr.) Fr. the direction of R.