ASBS Newsletter

Number 98, March 1999

Contents

Editorial .................... 1

President's Report .................... 1

ASBS Inc Business
Annual General Meeting .................... 2
Council Elections .................... 2
Hansjorg Eichler Research Fund Applications .................... 3

ABRS Report .................... 4

ABLO Report .................... 6

Letters to the Editor .................... 8

Articles
The rediscovery of Trioncinia retroflexa (Asteraceae) in central Queensland .................... 9
Notes on Hemistrpia lyrata (Asteraceae) and its Australian occurrence .................... 10
Serendipity .................... 12
Hunting the elusive Dillwynia .................... 13
ASBS first summer series picnic .................... 14

Reviews
1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants .................... 15
John Lindley 1799-1865, Gardener - Botanist and Pioneer Orchidologist .................... 15
Adventrop Doc - Les adventices d'Afrique soudano-saheliene .................... 18
EUCLID - Eucalypts of south-eastern Australia .................... 19

Conferences/Workshops
International Symposium Ethnobotany .................... 21
Dampier 300 .................... 23
2000: New Zealand .................... 23
Where Worlds Collide: Faunal and floral migrations and evolution in SE Asia-Australasia .................... 24

Herbarium News
Darwin Herbarium .................... 27

News from FASTS
FASTS "Ten Top" for 1999 .................... 27
FASTS circular for December .................... 29
Scholarships in Germany .................... 31