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Index of Subjects --00000000000031699a057849c96f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" You might want to contact Karen Casselman, who lives in Wolfville, and is an authority on lichens. Richard Stern sent from my Android device On Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 8:51 PM David, <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote: > Dear All, > LONG PREAMBLE: > In the course of cutting firewood I frequently see Lichens which would > rarely be seen in detail from the ground and bought a copy of Brodo, > Sharnoff & Sharnoff shortly after their Lichens of North America came out. > Attempts to key these out based on morphological characters (don't > have the chemicals) have nearly always led to dead ends or close but not > quite right. And extreme frustration because the text is in alphabetical > order by Genera. So one can be very close and never know it because members > of a family are scattered throughout the 760+ pages. > Yesterday a friend found a very common lichen and asked me what it was > so I said *Usnea* but I don'r recall the species. It did not agree with > any *Usnea *in Lichens of NA, so I thumbed through all pages and drew a > blank. > Wondering why I had supposed it to be *Usnea, *I checked a small > Observers book of Lichens which Alison had bought in 1967 and found *Usnea > florida* at once. And a Google of *Usnea florida* confirmed the ID > without doubt. > QUESTION: > I don't have much time these days for luxury activities but would like > a practical and reliable key for NS lichens and experience tells me that > Lichens of NA is not suitable. Can anyone suggest a good source for > identification of NS Lichens; preferably illustrated ? [I have a vague > memory of having asked this question years ago but lost most e-mails on my > now off-line Dell when some malicious characters gained access to it. And > why bust a gut finding an archived copy of a 10 year old e-mail when a > current answer may yield something better ?] > Yt, DW, Kentville > --00000000000031699a057849c96f Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"auto">You might want to contact Karen Casselman, who lives in W= olfville, and is an authority on lichens.<br><br><div data-smartmail=3D"gma= il_signature">Richard Stern<br>sent from my Android device</div></div><br><= div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 8:51 PM Da= vid, <dwebster@glinx.com> w= rote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex= ;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div>Dear All,<div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 LONG PREAMBLE:<br><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 In th= e course of cutting firewood I frequently see Lichens which would rarely be= seen in detail from the ground and bought a copy of Brodo, Sharnoff & = Sharnoff shortly after their Lichens of North America came out.=C2=A0</div>= <div>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Attempts to key these out based on morphologic= al characters (don't have the chemicals) have nearly always led to dead= ends or close but not quite right. And extreme frustration because the tex= t is in alphabetical order by Genera. So one can be very close and never kn= ow it because members of a family are scattered throughout the 760+ pages.<= /div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Yesterday a friend found a very common lichen and a= sked me what it was so I said <i>Usnea</i> but I don'r recall the speci= es.=C2=A0It did not agree with any <i>Usnea =C2=A0</i>in Lichens of NA, so = I thumbed through all pages and drew a blank.=C2=A0</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0= Wondering why I had supposed it to be <i>Usnea,=C2=A0</i>I checked a small= Observers book of Lichens which Alison had bought in 1967 and found <i>Usn= ea florida</i> at once.=C2=A0 And a Google of <i>Usnea florida</i> confirme= d the ID without doubt.</div><div>QUESTION:</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 I don&#= 39;t have much time these days for luxury activities but would like a pract= ical and reliable key for NS lichens and experience tells me that Lichens o= f NA is not suitable. Can anyone suggest a good source for identification o= f NS Lichens; preferably illustrated ? [I have a vague memory of having ask= ed this question years ago but lost most e-mails on my now off-line Dell wh= en some malicious characters gained access to it. And why bust a gut findin= g an archived copy of a 10 year old e-mail when a current answer may yield = something better ?]=C2=A0</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Yt, DW, Kentville</div></= div></div></blockquote></div> --00000000000031699a057849c96f--
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