NYBG North American Bryophyte Catalog Update

[bthiers at NYBG.ORG]

     NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN NORTH AMERICAN BRYOPHYTE CATALOG
     (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/bryo/bry3.html).

     Approximately 13,000 new records from the contiguous U.S. have been
     added to the searchable catalog for the following families of mosses:

     Archidiaceae, Bryoxiphiaceae, Calymperaceae, Cryphaeaceae,
     Hylocomiaceae, Meteoriaceae, Oedipodiaceae, Pterobryaceae,
     Ptychomitriaceae, Racopilaceae, Rhytidiaceae, Schistostegaceae,
     Seligeriaceae, Sphagnaceae, Splachnaceae.

     The total number of records now available for searching in the North
     American Bryophyte Catalog is approximately 111,000.  This number
     includes all hepatics and anthocerotes from the entire flora area
     (U.S., Canada and Greenland), and all mosses from Canada, Alaska, and
     Greenland.

     The NYBG North American Bryophyte Catalog project has been supported
     in part by the National Science Foundation since 1996. We anticipate
     that the catalog will be completed by April, 2001.