Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:49:46 EST From: aquilla2@juno.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg228$foo@default> Subject: Re: Sphagnum ID
Perhaps of help to CP growers in N. America in the Identification of The
Sphagnum
mosses is the "Field Guide to the Peat Mosses of Boreal North America"
by
Cyrus B McQueen University of New England Press 1990 ISBN
0-87451-522-X
" This book contains color photos 30 major
species and field keys to nearly all species in the Northern Hemisphere.
This new guide reveals an area of natural science previously available
only to bryologists and those with extensive compound microscopes.
McQueen's guide, used and tested for several years by botany
students, provides all the tools needed to identify north American peat
mosses in the field. It's unique combination of simple macroscopic keys,
color Photographs, line drawings, and non technical descriptions quickly
opens the world of Sphagnum species most frequently encountered in boreal
regions of the U.S. and Canada to anyone with a hand lens, tweezers, and
a metric ruler." Quoting from the back cover.
Michael A. Sankovich
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