{"title":"Stem and Leaf Anatomy of Saruma henryi Oliv., Including Observations on Raylessness in the Aristolochiaceae","authors":"W. Dickison","doi":"10.2307/2996773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68410799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Composition, structure, and disturbance history of Crabtree Woods: an old-growth forest of western Maryland'","authors":"B. Mccarthy, D. Bailey, D. Bailey","doi":"10.2307/2996783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996783","url":null,"abstract":"MCCARTHY, B. C. AND D. R. BAILEY. (Department of Environmental & Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701-2979). Composition, structure, and disturbance history of Crabtree Woods: an old-growth forest of western Maryland. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 123: 350-365. 1996.-Crabtree Woods is an old stand of mixed Appalachian hardwoods which has been identified as one of the finest examples of this vegetation type in Maryland. Because few botanical studies have been conducted on the Allegheny Plateau of Maryland and because the old-growth nature of this stand is unique in its present landscape, we undertook this study to describe the composition, structure, and disturbance history of the stand. A one hectare permanent plot was established in which all trees, saplings, snags, and logs were quantified. Woody seedlings and herbs were subsampled from 25 quadrats to describe the understory. Increment cores were obtained from all Quercus rubra trees within the plot and used for dendroecological analysis. The stand shows many structural and compositional features characteristic of old-growth forest. The overstory was dominated by Acer saccharum, Q. rubra, and Tilia americana. The stand exhibited a reverse-J diameter distribution typical of old forests and a number of trees were observed to have a diameter >100 cm DBH. Acer saccharum and Hamamelis virginiana were the prominent understory constituents. Quercus rubra was essentially absent from seedling and sapling size classes and does not appear to be regenerating. Logs and snags were abundant and occurred in a variety of decay states and diameter classes. Thirty-nine species of herbs were discovered, with Dicentra canadensis, Urtica dioica, and Impatiens pallida being the most abundant. Stem increment analysis shows multiple periods of recruitment likely associated with gap dynamics. However, certain synchronous releases suggest possible light anthropogenic disturbance (e.g., selective cutting or chestnut salvage).","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996783","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68411553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Fire Frequency on Plant Species in Oak Savanna in East-Central Minnesota","authors":"J. Tester","doi":"10.2307/2996779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996779","url":null,"abstract":"TESTER, J. R. (Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108). Effects of fire frequency on plant species in oak savanna in east-central Minnesota. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 123: 304-308. 1996.-From 1964 through 1984, nine forest sites, ranging in size from 2.6 to 27.5 ha, were each burned from two to 19 times. Percent cover of 13 of 14 true-prairie grasses was positively correlated with burn frequency. Of these, eight have C4 and six have C3 photosynthetic pathways. Cover of 34 of 39 true-prairie forbs, and of Amorpha canescens, increased with frequency of burning. All except Aster oolentangiensis are C3 species. Cover of six of seven native, not prairie, species, all C3, decreased with increasing burn frequency. These data suggest that the adaptation of true-prairie species to repeated burning outweighs the effects of their photosynthetic pathways.","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68410632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pollination biology and breeding system of Alliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae)","authors":"R. Cruden, A. M. McClain, G. P. Shrivastava","doi":"10.2307/2996775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996775","url":null,"abstract":"CRUDEN, R. W., A. M. MCCLAIN (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242) AND G. P. SHRIVASTAVA (School of Environmental Biology, APS. University, Rewa (M.P.), India 486 001). Pollination biology and breeding system of Alliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 123: 273-280. 1996.-Alliaria petiolata (Bieb.) Cavara and Grande is widely naturalized in the northeastern 1/4 of the United States and adjacent Canada, where it is an aggressive invader of moist woods. The plants are facultatively xenogamous, and the white flowers attract a variety of short-tongued bees and flies. High fruit and seed set by open-pollinated, emasculated flowers demonstrated that flower visitors move pollen between flowers. Cross-pollination resulted from the bees visiting only one or two flowers per plant. High fruit and seed set by bagged flowers demonstrated that flowers self-pollinate in the absence of pollinators. The nectar contained 51% fructose, 44% glucose, and little sucrose, which is typical of the nectars of flowers pollinated by short-tongued bees. The nectar contained no free amino acids, but did contain numbers of peptides, which, when hydrolyzed, yielded most of the amino acids present in floral nectars.","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996775","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68411019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of canopy gaps and flower patch size on pollinator visitation of Impatiens capensis","authors":"B. B. Walters, E. Stiles","doi":"10.2307/2996793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996793","url":null,"abstract":"WALTERS, B. B. AND E. W. STILES (Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855). Effect of canopy gaps and flower patch size on pollinator visitation of Impatiens capensis. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 123:184-188. 1996.-We measured pollinator visits of Impatiens capensis flowers found in different-sized patches beneath canopy gaps and beneath closed canopy in a mature, old-growth deciduous forest in New Jersey. Honeybees, bumblebees and halictid bees made up the majority of visitors. Visitation rates per flower increased slightly, but not significantly, in relation to flower patch size (number of open flowers) and floral density. By contrast, pollinator visitation rates, floral density and seed production per pod were all significantly higher in patches located beneath forest canopy gaps compared to patches located beneath closed canopy.","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996793","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68411159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparison of growth efficiency of plants on the east and west sides of a forest canopy gap","authors":"L. S. Barden","doi":"10.2307/2996799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996799","url":null,"abstract":"BARDEN, L. S. (Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223). A comparison of growth efficiency of plants on the east and west sides of a forest canopy gap. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 123:240-242. 1996.-The theoretical distribution of light in a circular forest canopy gap is symmetrically equal on the east and west sides of the gap. However, small plants on the west side of the gap receive maximum light in the morning when air temperature and vapor pressure deficit are relatively low, while plants on the east side receive maximum light in the afternoon when temperature and VPD are high. To test the hypothesis that plants on the west side of a gap are able to use light more efficiently, Microstegium vimineum, a shade-adapted annual grass, was grown in pots in a forest canopy gap, both in the actual open gap and in the extended gap. In the actual gap there was no difference in growth efficiency. However, in the extended gap growth efficiency was 39% greater on the west side than on the east side under equal light (integrated photon flux density). Thus, asymmetry of microclimate on the east and west sides of a canopy gap causes an east-west asymmetry in plant growth efficiency and may induce asymmetry in species composition of understory vegetation.","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996799","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68411375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understory influence of the invasive Norway maple (Acer platanoides).","authors":"P. Wyckoff, S. Webb","doi":"10.2307/2996795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996795","url":null,"abstract":"WYCKOFF, PETER H. AND SARA L. WEBB (Biology Department, Drew University, Madison NJ 07940). Understory influence of the invasive Norway maple (Acer platanoides). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 123:197-205. 1996.Norway maple (Acer platanoides) is invasive within a Fagus grandifolia-Acer saccharum-Quercus spp. forest preserve in New Jersey. To assess the community-level consequences of this invasion, we compared understory composition, richness, and structure beneath canopies of invasive Acer platanoides and of native Acer saccharum and Fagus grandifolia. Understory species richness was significantly lower beneath Acer platanoides and highest beneath Fagus grandifolia. Stem densities were high beneath Acer platanoides but consisted primarily of its own seedlings and saplings. When these Acer platanoides stems were removed from the analysis, there was a trend toward lower stem densities beneath the exotic tree compared with the native canopies. Individual shrub and forb species were too patchy for any canopy affinities to demonstrate significance within this small forest preserve, with two exceptions: Epifagus virginiana, a beech (Fagus) root parasite, was less abundant under Acer platanoides than under either Fagus grandifolia or Acer saccharum; and the shrub Lindera benzoin was less abundant under Acer platanoides and Fagus grandifolia than under Acer saccharum. Among tree seedlings, the exotic Acer platanoides far outnumbered all others, beneath its own canopy and also beneath the two native trees. A surprising paucity of Fagus grandifolia reproduction seems unrelated to the biological invasion. Acer saccharum has some prospects for self-replacement judging from sapling distributions but has sparse reproduction under the other canopy species relative to its exotic congener.","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996795","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68411228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The breeding system of desert milkweed, Asclepias subulata","authors":"R. Wyatt, C. Ivey, S. Lipow, C. Ivey","doi":"10.2307/2996792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996792","url":null,"abstract":"WYATr, R. (Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), C. T IVEY AND S. R. LiPOW (Department of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602). The breeding system of desert milkweed, Asclepias subulata. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 123: 180-183. 1996.-Like most other species of Asclepias, A. subulata is largely genetically self-incompatible; of 99 cross-pollinations, 15 were successful, versus only 1 of 99 self-pollinations. The number of apparently viable seeds per cross-pollinated fruit was unexpectedly variable and low, averaging 98.5, as was percent seed germination, which averaged 58.3%. Fluorescence microscopy revealed that self-pollen tubes grew as rapidly as outcross-pollen tubes and entered the micropyles of ovules within the ovary. It appears that this unusual late-acting form of self-incompatibility, which is characteristic of milkweeds, arose early in the basal Asclepiadaceae/Apocynaceae clade and has been retained in both morphologically plesiomorphic and apomorphic lineages.","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996792","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68411147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Icones Pleurothallidium. XII. Systematics of Brachionidium. Addenda to Dresslerella, Platystele and Porroglossum (Orchidaceae).","authors":"K. Barringer, C. Luer","doi":"10.2307/2996801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996801","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68411487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Manual of California Vegetation.","authors":"A. Greller, J. O. Sawyer, T. Keeler-Wolf","doi":"10.2307/2996802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2996802","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9453,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2996802","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68411635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}