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Publications the basic reference works but all relevant floristic papers published between 1985 and 2002. Not to forget a comparative display of the floristic subdivisions used in the “Conspectus” with the quite different ones adopted in the national Floras. Good luck, then! For the first volume Takhtajan has benefited from the activity of a largish team of authors, but are they really enough? It strikes me that none comes from a Caucasian country. I would hope that in the future Caucasian botanists will be involved – and let themselves get involved. W.G. Excursions 70. 69BIna DINTER – Griechenland. Peloponnes. Botanische Studienreise 18. Mai – 1. Juni 2004. – Privately assembled/duplicated, Ostfildern, 2004. 57 + XX sheets + CD-ROM, maps, figures, black-andwhite photographs; paper, plastic front cover sheet. 71. 70BIna DINTER – Ibiza. Weltkulturerbe. Botanische Studienreise 5.-14. Mai 2005. – Privately assembled/duplicated, Ostfildern, 2005. 35 sheets + CD-ROM, maps, figures, black-and-white photographs; paper, plastic front cover sheet. 72. 71BIna DINTER – Languedoc. Botanische Studienreise 29. Mai – 7. Juni 2005. – Privately assembled/duplicated, Ostfildern, 2005. 45 sheets + CD-ROM, figures, maps, photographs (partly in colour); paper, plastic front cover sheet. 73. 72BIna DINTER – Andalucía. Botanische Studienreise 2.-12. April 2006. – Privately assembled/duplicated, Ostfildern, 2005. 49 sheets + CD-ROM, figures, maps and photographs in colour; paper, plastic front cover sheet. 74. 73BIna DINTER – Insel Samos. Griechenland. Botanische Studienreise 1.-15. Mai 2006. – Privately assembled/duplicated, Ostfildern, 2006. 51 sheets + CD- ROM, figures, maps and photographs in colour; paper, plastic front cover sheet. 75. 74BIna DINTER – Das geheime Paradies Griechenlands. Halkidiki. Botanische Studienreise 1.-12. Mai 2007. – Privately assembled/duplicated, Ostfildern, [2007]. 55 sheets + CD-ROM, figures, maps and photographs in colour; paper, plastic front cover sheet. Starting 2003 with the first Peloponnesus tour (see OPTIMA Newslett. 37 80-81. 2004), Ina Dinter’s excursion guides have adopted a new style, making full use of modern computer technology. The printed versions prepared in advance remain as they were before, but the “elaborations” incorporating the excursions’ own results have been transposed to CD-ROMs, which permits the inclusion of numerous highly resolved colour photographs, mostly of plants but also of landscapes and cultural highlights, together with the new plant lists. Information, thereby, is more complete and better documented than was possible before – and besides, the pictures are amazing both by their beauty and the detail they show. The preparatory booklets are computer printouts, usually illustrated in colour. Sometimes they appear again on the CD- ROM as printable files in pdf format. In the case of the Ibiza guide, of which at least my copy is of reduced size and printed blackand-white, it is thus possible to obtain a fullsize copy in colour if one is equipped with a colour printer. The plant lists in the print versions have been put together by Mrs. Dinter during a preliminary trip (she uses to prepare her guided tours very thoroughly), or sometimes a previous group excursion if, as exceptionally happens, she offers the same tour twice in sequence (e.g., for the Peloponnesus, in 2003 and 2004). They differ from the individual lists on the CD- ROMs, which reflect the groups’ results. All species with their localities are shown in a combined tabulation (for Samos, for in- (40) OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 2009
stance, with all data of the years 1993, 1994, 2005 and 2006). The value of Mrs. Dinter’s lists as scientific data sources is enhanced by the presence, in her personal herbarium, of voucher specimens of many rare and critical taxa. By the end of 2007, she had collected about 9000 numbered specimens all over the Mediterranean area. W.G. Chorology 76. 75BArto KURTTO, Raino LAMPINEN & Leo JUNIKKA – Atlas florae europaeae. Distribution of vascular plants in Europe, 13, Rosaceae (Spiraea to Fragaria, excl. Rubus). – Committee for Mapping the Flora of Europe & Societas Botanica Fennica Vanamo, Helsinki, 2004 (ISBN 951-9108-14-9). 320 pages (+ 11 pages on loose sheets), maps, table; paper. 77. 76BArto KURTTO, Sigurd E. FRÖHNER & Raino LAMPINEN – Atlas florae europaeae. Distribution of vascular plants in Europe, 14, Rosaceae (Alchemilla and Aphanes). – Committee for Mapping the Flora of Europe & Societas Botanica Fennica Vanamo, Helsinki, 2007 (ISBN 951-9108-15-5). 200 pages, drawings, maps, graphs, tables; paper. Volume 12 of the “Atlas florae europaeae” (see OPTIMA Newslett. 35: (17-18). 2000), the last to be published in the second millennium, marked the end of the work’s first phase, coinciding in coverage with the first volume of “Flora Europaea”. Much has changed, last but not least on the personal level, in the five-year interval between volumes 12 and 13. Of the two pillars of the “Atlas”, Jaakko Jalas sadly died at the end of 1999 and Juha Suominen retired. Other important changes concern the mapping grid, adapted to achieve a common European standard for biological mapping projects (while doing away with erstwhile sensible Publications exceptions); the technology used, which now permits the automatic generation, directly out of a database, of distribution maps and all sort of useful by-products; and territory definitions, no longer congruent with those defined for “Flora Europaea” but altered to match Euro+Med subdivisions. The question may be asked: are we thus entering a new era of relative stability, or rather a future of permanent change? I can live with either, provided the project continues, but instability is the more likely answer. Volume 14 already implements to further territorial changes: segregation of Malta from Sicily (joining Med-Checklist, at long last!) and of Luxemburg from Belgium – the next (separation of Serbia and Montenegro) being announced for vol. 15. Also, the position of project secretary, after two changes in rapid succession, is now in the able hands of Alexander Sennikov. With volumes 13 and 14 published, the “Atlas” is halfway through Rosaceae, arguably Europe’s second most complex flowering plant family (after Compositae). The spiraeoid and most rosoid genera (including Rosa and Potentilla) form vol. 13, Alchemilla and Aphanes, vol. 14; the two next volumes are to be devoted to the last rosoid genus, Rubus, and the maloid plus prunoid genera, respectively. Increasing time lag and independence of judgement have been gradually widening the gap between the treatments of the “Atlas” and of “Flora Europaea” that it was initially meant to mirror and complement. Deviations in vol. 13 are most obvious at generic level, where Comarum, Dasiphora, Drymocallis and Sibbaldianthe were removed from but Duchesnea included in Potentilla. In vol. 14, the difference at species level is dramatic: of 385 Alchemilla species, 204 are additional to the “Flora Europaea” treatment. It is a customary feature of the “Atlas” to document its deviations from the “Flora” in the introductory part, but in the future it may prove more space-economic to list the cases of congruence. W.G. 2009 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 (41)
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