Antarctic Lichens and Vascular Plants: Their Significance

Abstract

A second grant (GA-132) from the Antarctic Program of the National Science Foundation, for the period from April 1, 1964, until March 31, 1965, provides for the identification of the accumulated specimens and for the preparation of a comprehensive illustrated report for eventual publication. By a happy coincidence, my British counterpart, Dr. Stanley W. Greene of the University of Birmingham, who has established through the British Antarctic Survey a parallel national depository for bryophytes collected by the various British field parties in Antarctica, was willing to spend a year in cooperative work on our joint accumulations of specimens. Dr. Greene, the leading British authority on antarctic plants, has had extensive field experience on the subantarctic island of South Georgia. Early in 1965, during the austral summer, Dr. Greene and I spent several weeks in the field on the Antarctic Continent, basing our work at the U.S. research station at