ASBS Newsletter
Number 152, September 2012
Contents
From the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Death noticess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Articles
Nancy Tyson Burbidge – a centenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
A. Cunningham, P.P. King and the legacy to the botanical fraternity . . . . . . . 4
A Post-Olympic View from Kew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Book Reviews
Australia's Poisonous Plants, Fungi and Cyanobacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Biology of the Red Algae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Cape Arid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
A Field Guide to the Eucalypts of the Cape York Peninsula Bioregion . . . .14
Flora of Peninsular Malaysia: Series II: Seed Plants, Volume 3 . . . . . . . . . . 16
Huanduj: Brugmansia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Kimberley History: People, Exploration and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Photographing Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
The Smallest Kingdom:
Plants and Plant Collectors at the Cape of Good Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Tropical Plant Collecting, from the Field to the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Wetland Weeds: Causes, Cures and Compromises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
The Plant Press: News from the Allan Herbarium
Hybridisation among New Zealand beech tree species (Nothofagus) . . . . . . 28
New key to flowering plant genera released . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
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