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Pleurocarpous Mosses in Maine and Their Habitats July 3 - Aug 6 Instructors: William Buck and Bruce Allen Location: Eagle Hill Institute, Steuben, Me In this seminar, participants will study the pleurocarpous mosses of coastal Maine. Pleurcarps are those mosses that are mostly well branched and mat-forming, and produce their spore capsules laterally along the stems (contrasting with acrocarpous mosses). Field study will involve collection of material from local habitats. There will be considerable study of specimens and sharing of observations, including the use of keys for determination. Larger genera, such as Brachythecium and Hypnum, will receive special attention. Lectures will emphasize familial (and to a lesser extent generic) characteristics, including both microscopic features as well as field characteristics. Difficult microscopic features, such as axillary hairs and pseudoparaphyllia, will be demonstrated. Participants are welcome to bring a limited number unidentified pleurocarps from outside the region. To the extent possible, these specimens will be considered during the seminar. Specimens should be packeted and labelled as herbarium specimens (please consider bringing packeted and labelled replicates for sharing with other participants). about the instructors William Buck ([email protected]) is the curator of Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. His main research interests are associated with understanding the relationships of different groups of mosses, especially pleurocarps (with creeping, branched stems and laterally placed spore capsules). To see living mosses in the field, he has traveled throughout much of North and South America, as well as to parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Melanesia. As a result, he has a wide experience with morphological variation in mosses. Bruce Hampton Allen ([email protected]) is a Curator of Bryophytes at the Missouri Botanical Garden. He received his B.S. in Biology in from the Pennsylvania State University and began studying mosses there where he received his M.S. in Botany working with Ron Pursell as his mentor. He received Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, working with Jerry Snider. From there he went directly to the Missouri Botanical Garden, where he has been ever since. He is best known for his two floras, Moss Flora of Central America and Maine Mosses. For general information, go to http://eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/natural-history-seminars.shtml For course calendar and course descriptions, go to http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/nhs-calendar.shtml For application information and cost breakdown, go to http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/general/application-info.shtml For more information, contact [email protected], 207-546-2821 x 1
