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BOOK NEWS:

(1) Pollen Flora of China, 2nd edition, by Wang Fuhsiung et al., 1995.
Beijing: Science Press. 461pp, 205 plates (Chinese version). Price: 89US$.

THE MAIN CONTENTS INCLUDE: Descriptions of pollen morphology, and their 
distribution in China, ecological habitat; 121 families, 912 genera 
and over 1400 species of pollen are described and illustrated (with both 
Chinese names and Latin names).

(2) Spore Morphology of Chinese Pteridophytes, by Zhang Yulong et al., 1990.
Beijing: Science Press. (English version: 592pp, 101 plates, price: US$100.
Chinese version: 451pp, 101 plates, US$40)

In this book, the authors systematically described the morphology of 
spores of over 1000 species representing 175 genera and 52 families. 
The illustrations include 119 text-figures (line-drawings) of spore 
types, 89 plates of photomicrographs of extant spores, and 12 plates 
of fossil spores. The main contents are: geographic distribution of
extant pteridophytes in China; distribution of fossil fern spores in 
geological periods; general spore morphology of pteridophytes; 
spore types of pteridophytes; description of spore morphology in 
all families of pteridophytes.

Postage: surface mail: $15 (each book)
         air mail: $25 (each book)

If you are interested in any one of the books, please contact:

Dr Changqing Song                   Dr Qinhua Jiang
Paleobotany Section      or         Geology Dept.
Institute of Botany                 Peking University
Beijing 100093                      Beijing 100871
P.R. China                          P.R. China
                                    E-mail: qjiang@geoms.geo.pku.edu.cn