From Plant Press, Vol. 6, No. 1 from January 2003.
Maria Faust has published “Identifying Harmful Marine Dinoflagellates” (2002, Smithsonian Institution, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 42: 1-144). The guide is the most comprehensive reference manual for identifying harmful algal bloom (HAB) dinoflagellates. The guide illustrates the morphology of toxin-producing HAB species, which have been implicated to cause red tides, marine life mortality, and seafood-borne human diseases. The taxonomic treatment of species includes nomenclatural types, type locality, synonyms, and etymology. Information is also available on species reproduction ecology, biogeography, distribution, habitat and locality. Species illustrations are presented as SEM and light micrographs and line drawings. A comprehensive glossary and reference section is included. This fully illustrated reference guide is intended for the scientist, instructor and student. It can also serves as a field guide for marine biologists, environmental researchers and health professionals.
Tom Hollowell, Lynn Gillespie (Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa), Vicki Funk, and Carol Kelloff have published “Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guyana: 1989 – 1991, Lynn J. Gillespie,” (2003, Smithsonian Institution, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 44: 1-104). This publication details the Guyana collections of Lynn J. Gillespie. It is intended as a comprehensive reference for herbaria holding collections made by the collector and as an aid to taxonomists interested in particular groups of plants. The volume also contains a list of collections of particular interest, a fascinating narrative about the collecting trips, and photographs of localities and plants taken by Gillespie. Part I provides the collector’s notes on trips in chronological order. Part II lists collection localities, with collection number ranges, habitat descriptions, geographic coordinates, and assisting collectors. Part III consists of maps of Guyana showing collecting localities. Part IV lists collections in numerical order with identifications and authors. Part V lists collections ordered by determined name. The appendix is a personal account by the collector describing some of her experiences while collecting plants in Guyana. This volume is the second in a series on the Smithsonian Institution’s Biological Diversity of the Guianas collectors, the first being on the collections of John J. Pipoly, which is available at <http://www.mnh.si.edu/biodiversity/bdg/collector.html>.