OPTIMA Newsletter 38

Publications
added on loose sheets), grouped thematically
in 9 sections or subsections. The full versions
of lectures and posters will, subject to
positive peer review, be published as a volume
of “Bocconea”.
W.G.
145. 144BIgnazio CAMARDA, Santiago CAS-
TROVIEJO & Pietro MAZZOLA (ed.) –
Proceedings of the VI Conference on
Plant Taxonomy, Alghero, 31 May – 2
June 2003. [Bocconea (ISSN 1120-4060),
19.] – Herbarium Mediterraneum Panormitanum,
Palermo, 2006. 308 pages,
tables, illustrations (some in colour);
paper.
Although it is nowhere mentioned in the
proceedings volume, this conference is the
6 th edition to what started in 1988 in Sevilla
as a purely Spanish event, named “Jornadas
de Taxonomía Vegetal”. It has long since
turned into an international congress of renown,
held every three years on average,
with its subsequent stations in Madrid (190),
Munich (1993), Barcelona (1996), and Lisbon
(1999). Its 6 th edition is the first to be
held on Italian territory. Of the 7 th I could
find no announcement as yet.
Of the 30 papers here included, 18 are by
Italian and 12 by (mainly) Spanish authors.
They cover substantially the same geographical
area, except for two each that are
relevant to Tunisia and Oman. Some new
binomials are proposed: Centaurea delucae,
Dipsacus valsecchii, Limonium elfahsianum,
and Oncostema maireanum (‘maireana’).
other groups treated include bryophytes,
orchids, Genisteae, and the genera Anthoxanthum,
Hieracium, Lotus, Matthiola, Orobanche,
and Quercus.
W.G.
146. 145BGiuseppe VENTURELLA & Francesco
Maria RAIMONDO (ed.) – 102° Congresso
della Società Botanica Italiana,
Palermo, 26-29 Settembre 2007. Orto
Botanico. Riassunti. Relazioni – comunicazioni
– poster. [Collana Siciliana
Foreste, 34.] – Università degli Studi di
Palermo, Dipartimento di Scienze
Botaniche, Palermo, 2007. 425 pages;
paper.
The 2007 Congress of the Italian Botanical
Society in Palermo comprised 6
symposia on subjects related to botanic gardens,
monumental trees, cell biology, tropical
vegetation, proteomics, and biodiversity
conservation. The abstracts here presented
are mostly extensive, often covering the
allotted page in full, some with bibliography,
a few even spilling over to a second
page.
The abstracts of 37 symposium lectures
and almost 300 posters are printed here,
grouped into 21 sections and subsections, by
796 different authors – and with up to 18
posters for a single author. It is obvious that
Italian botany is in a healthy state!
W.G.
147. 146BSalvatore GENTILE (ed.) – Botanici
dell’Ottocento in Liguria. Atti del Convegno.
Genova, 25 ottobre 2002. Chiavari,
26 ottobre 2002. [Accademia Ligure
di Scienze e Lettere, Collana di
Studi e Ricerche, 29.] – Accademia Ligure
di Scienze e Lettere, Genova, 2003
(ISBN 88-86746-16-4). 255 pages, illustrations
in black-and-white, colour
and half-tone; paper.
Thanks to its clear structure, with invited
lectures each on one 19 th century Ligurian
botanist, plus an account of the
Genoa herbarium, this book is more that the
haphazard assemblage of loosely interconnected
papers that is usual in symposium
proceedings. It is a useful and informative
compendium of Liguria’s botanical history,
from 1800 to 1900 and with spinoffs until
today.
There are 15 botanists treated here, not
all of Ligurian origin, nor all remembered
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