Species Collected in Alberta on the First 1971 Foray of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. Part II. Bryophytes

Abstract

In June 1971 the Canadian Botanical Association and the American Institute of Biological Sciences held their first joint meeting, in Edmonton, Alberta. The pre-meeting field trip (No. 2) of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society consisted of 13 collecting stops in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and foothills in the Banff-Jasper area of Alberta. The participants collected 112 taxa of mosses and 42 of hepatics. Of these, Hylocomium pyrenaicum, Oligotrichum hercynicum, and Moerkia blyttii were collected for the first time in Alberta. Field trip number 2 of the first joint meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the Canadian Botanical Association was held 18-20 June 1971. Fifty-three scientists participated in the trip which contained 13 collecting stops in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and eastern foothills between Calgary and Edmonton. Part I (Bird, 1973) of this series gives a description of the general area in which the trip was held and includes an annotated list of the 206 lichen taxa collected on the trip.