The purpose of the work is to enable students of botany to identify
accurately Oregon ferns, both as living plants and as dried specimens.
Therefore, it provides vegetative keys to the families, genera
and species of the ferns (Class FILICINAE) found in Oregon. Correct
names have been determined using the...
Cultural and developmental characteristics of a collection of
Anthracobia melaloma with a brown hymenium and a barred exterior
appearance were examined. It grows well in culture on CM and
CMMY agar media and has a growth rate of 17 mm in 18 hours. It is
heterothallic and produces asexual multinucleate...
Two sampling lines were established in the intertidal region at
each of three geographically separate sites on the coast of Oregon.
Each sampling line, which was positioned in the zone dominated by
the brown alga Hedophyllum sessile, was one meter in height and
extended 50 meters horizontally. Information was sought...
Ecological factors associated with the relictual distribution of
the endemic shrub Kalmiopsis leachiana (Ericaceae) were investigated.
A prostrate evergreen species with small coriaceous leaves,
K. leachiana is restricted to two disjunct populations in the Siskiyou
Mountains and southern Cascade Mountains of southwestern Oregon,
USA. Exact distributions of individual populations were...