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The Plant Science Bulletin

(Print: ISSN 0032-0919, Electronic: ISSN 1537-9752) is an informal communication published three times a year, with information on upcoming meetings, courses, field trips, news of colleagues, new books, and professional opportunities. It provides a means of advertising items or materials wanted. It also serves as a forum for circulating BSA committee reports, for distributing innovative teaching approaches and methods, and for discussing issues of concern to Society members such as environmental policy and educational funding.

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Books for review are available to members of the Botanical Society of America. If you are a BSA member and would like to review a book or books for PSB, the easiest way to do so is to: highlight and copy the book details, click on the Reviewer Requested link to the right of the book's details and paste the information into the email form that pops up. Remember to include your name, University/Department, all of your mailing details and the date by which the book will be reviewed. Book reviews should not exceed 800-1000 words. Alternatively, e-mail Mackenzie Taylor, the editor-in-chief, at psb@botany.org, including the details noted above, as soon as you notice the book of interest in this list, because they go quickly!

Brown Seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) of Britain and Ireland Fletcher, Robert L. 2024. ISBN: 978-1784272470. (Hardback US$120). 888 pp. Pelagic Publishing	Reviewer Requested
Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy Toomey, Anne Helen. 2024. ISBN: 978-1642833287. (Paper; US$35). 296 pp. Island Press.	Reviewer Requested
History and Future of Plants, Planet, and People: Towards a New Ecologically Sustainable Age in People’s Relationships With Plants Hamilton, Alan and Pei Shengi. 2024. ISBN: 978-1789248920. (Hardcover; $128.34). 400 pp. CABI.	Reviewer Requested
Illustrated Genera of Rust Fungi of Brazil de Carvalho Jr., Anibal Alves and Joe Fleetwood Hennen. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-889878-72-0. (hardback; US$40. 148 pp. BRIT Press.	Reviewer Requested
Max and the Milkweed Grand, Auggie. 2024. (paper US$32.52). 31 pp. Auggie Grand Books. (for readers 2-5).	Reviewer Requested
Sustainability for the Forgotten Machlis, Gary E. 2024. ISBN: 9781647691677 (Paper US$24.95) 262 pp. The University of Utah Press.	Reviewer Requested
Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics Thaler, Gregory. 2024. ISBN: 978-0-300-27248-2. (paper US$40) 312 pp. Yale University Press	Reviewer Requested
Frustrating Flowers & Puzzling Plants: Identifying the difficult species of Britain and Ireland. Warren, John M. 2024. ISBN: 978-1-78427-331-6. (paper US$40). 290 pp. Pelagic	Reviewer Requested
Botánicos: A novel Meerow, Alan. 2023. ISBN: 979-8-9891677-0-82. (Paper US$14.99) 92 pp. Griffinia Press.	Reviewer Requested
A Splendor of Succulents and Cacti Ball, Caroline. 2023. ISBN: 9781851245970 (cloth, US$25). 144 pp. Bodleian Library Publishing	Reviewer Requested
A guide to the Flora of the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir \| Una guía a la de de la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir Harper, Alan, Sula Vanderplank, and Jon Rebman. 2021. ISBN-13: 978-1-889878-64-5 (flex-binding US$35). 320 pp. BRIT Press.	Reviewer Requested
Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition Lesica, Peter with Contributions by Matt Lavin and Peter F. Stickney. 2022. ISBN-13: 978-1-889878-87-4. (flex binding US$65). 729 pp. BRIT Press.	Reviewer Requested
Tidal Marshes of Long Island, New York. Potente, John E (ed). 2022. ISSN: 22380 128x. (Hardback) Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Society Vol 26. 4th edition. 171 pp. Torrey Botanical Society.	Reviewer Requested
Auxin Signalling: From Synthesis to Systems Biology. 2nd Ed. Weijers, Dolf, Karin Ljung, Mark Estelle, and Ottoline Leyser. 2022. ISBN 978-1-621824-00-8. (Hardcover, US$135). 468 pp. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.	Reviewer Requested
Grasses of the Northern Forest: Quick Guides Jenkins, Jerry. 2022. ISBN: 9781501764318. (digital; US$11.95) 4 pp. Cornell University Press (physical copy available by request).	Reviewer Requested
Field Guide to Manzanitas: California, North America, and Mexico Kauffmann, Michael, Tom Parker, and Michael Vasey. Photography by Jeff Bisbee. 2021. ISBN: 978-1-941624-15-9. (Paper US$27.95). 175 pp. Backcountry Press.	Reviewer Requested
Flora of Oregon. Volume 2: Dicots A-F Meyers, Stephen, Thea Jaster, Katie E. Mitchell, Tanya Harvey, and Linda K. Hardison (eds.). 2020. 978-1-889878-61-4 (Hardback US$85). 880 pp. BRIT Press.	Reviewer Requested
Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes: A California Study in Rebalancing the Needs of People and Nature Butterfield, H. Scott, T. Rodd Kelsey, and Abigail K. Hart (eds). 2021. ISBN: 9781642831269. (Paper US$39). 252 pp. Island Press	Reviewer Requested
The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest Saville, Dara. 2021. ISBN: 978-0-8263-6217-9. (Paper US$24.95) 312 pp. University of New Mexico Press	Reviewer Requested
Descent and Logic in Biosystematics McCabe, Thomas. 2021. ISBN: 978-0-578-75848-0. (Electronic book, PDF format). 130 pp. Perseverant Publishing.	Reviewer Requested