ASBS Newsletter

Number 118, March 2004

Contents

ASBS Inc. business
2004 Annual General Meeting................... 1
Call for nominations for ASBS Council................... 1
Workshop on Handbook on Families of Australian Vascular Plants................... 1
Eichler Award Recipients for 2003 ................... 2

Articles
Notes on Leucas R.Br. (Lamiaceae) in Australia ................... 2
French gardens rediscovered in Tasmania? ................... 4
Io, and other assorted names................... 5

Point of view
A book on Australian flowering plant families? ................... 6

Eichler Research Fund reports
Preliminary phylogeny of Phebalium (Rutaceae: Boronieae) and its allies based on the nrDNA regions ITS 1+2 ................... 7
Microcharacters in Hemigenia R.Br. and Microcorys R.Br. ................... 10
Sympodial structure of spikelets in the Tribe Schoeneae (Cyperaceae) ................... 11

Obituaries
Don Foreman. 12 Cliff Boomsma, South Australian eucalyptologist and forester ................... 12

Response
Response to Walker and Simpson’s views on the ICBN Proposal 1584 by Orchard and Maslin to conserve the name Acacia with a conserved type: ASBS Newsletter 117: 17-21 (2004) ................... 15

ABRS report................... 19

Miscellanea
A journal for tropical Australian botany...................20
Accessing more on the electronic publishing debate................... 20
New product from Lucid ................... 21

ABLO report ........ 21

News
Australia Day Honours ................... 22
Floras on line . 22 World Wide Wattle website launched ................... 23
International recognition for LANDSCOPE Expeditions................... 24
The Beagle of Charles Darwin and Australian exploration found? ................... 24
Taxonomy, vouchers and the AVH to underpin Blackberry science................... 25
Orchid enthusiasts prosecuted in New Zealand................... 25
Bumble bees: a cause for concern................... 26

Reviews
Ecology and vegetation of Western Australia - an account of 100 years ago................... 26
Translation of lecture by Carl Wilhelmi on early South Australia ................... 28
A field guide to the outback South Australian plants ................... 29
Plant collecting in the nineteenth and early twentieth century ................... 30
A phytochemical database ................... 31
Hobart: 200 years of European settlement................... 32

FASTS................... 33

Coming meetings
National Science Week 2004................... 34
Victorian Field Naturalists’ Cryptogamic Extravaganza II May 28th – 31st 2004 ................... 34
Drummond Symposium 27th-28th August 2004................... 34
Workshop on Native Seed Biology ................... 34

ASBS Publications ................... 35

ASBS Chapter Conveners ................... 36

Contacting Major Australian Herbaria and Systematics Institutions ................... 36

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