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From: Barry Yinger <asiatica at NNI.COM>
Subject: Re: Asarum references, was gnat pollinators
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I no longer have any of these materials.

On Apr 2, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Pacific Rim wrote:

> About references for Asarum and its kin:
>
> 1. There is, or was, a Japanese book about Asarum s.l. offered on
> Barry's
> Asiatica website. Periodically I attempt to order it but get no
> response
> (though I have had replies about other things).  Is the book still
> available
> and if so will you ship it to Canada, Barry?
>
> 2. What about the papers by Lawrence Kelly, formerly of Cornell
> University
> and now of the New York Botanical Garden? He has been working on the
> treatment of Asarum/Hexastylis for the Flora of North America, I
> believe. I
> am no botanist but based on his several published papers he appears to
> be
> familiar not only with the physical traits, large and small, of the
> various
> possible taxa but also with the problems and traps of cladistics.
> Comments,
> anyone?
>
> Paige Woodward
> paige at hillkeep.ca
> www.hillkeep.ca
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Yinger" <asiatica at NNI.COM>
> To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: gnat pollinators was: What is the name of this plant?
>
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> There really isn't anything.  Unfortunately, with my manuscript, field
> notes, slides, and library gone, I don't know if I have the energy to
> start over on the project.  But it should be done, and I don't know
> anyone else to do it.
>
> Barry
>
> On Apr 2, 2004, at 3:47 PM, Jim McClements, Dover, DE z6 wrote:
>
>>
>>  In a message dated 4/1/04 6:10:14 PM, asiatica at NNI.COM writes:
>>
>>
>>
>> Various species are more or less discriminating about their
>>  pollinator(s). The plants in subgenera Asarum and Asiasarum are
>>  generally less discriminating, and those in subgenera Heterotropa
>>  (Japan and China) and Hexastylis (America and maybe China) are more
>>  specific. Chinese and Japanese species in subgenus Heterotropa rarely
>>  spontaneously set seed in cultivation.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Barry
>>
>>  Is there anything approaching a comprehensive key/description/book on
>> the whole Asarum genus? I know that you were working on the idea a few
>> years ago.
>>
>>  If nothing in one place, what would you recommend as a group of
>> resources, particularly the Chinese species that Chen Yi sells and the
>> NA species?
>>
>>  Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>  Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>  Jim McClements
>>  50 S. Prestwick Ct, Dover, Delaware, 19904, USA, Zone 7a
>