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liance on and relationship to their envi ronment should be further investigated as the strategies are being developed.

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

We thank the Batemi people, the village chairmen and other local au- thorities for their assistance. In addition, we thank M. Oberessl, E. B. Mhoro, E Olekashe, T. Kirnanani, E Sedia, M. L. Parkipuny and KIPOC for facilitating this field study and S. Mathenge for plant identifications. Financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Federal Environmental Assessment Research Office (FEARO) is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank two anony- mous reviewers for their helpful and insightful comments.

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BOOK REVIEW

Protected Plants of Georgia. An Information Man- ual on Plants Designated by the State of Georgia as Endangered, Threatened, Rare, or Unusual. T. S. Patrick, J. R. Allison, and G. A. Krakow. Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Natural Heritage Program, 2117 U.S. Highway 278 SE, Social Circle, Georgia 30279. 1995. 246 pp. Ilus. Cost not indicated.

Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River with a diverse flora and some very narrow state endemics. These include lsoetes rnelanospora, L te- getiformans, Elliottia racemosa, Penstemon dissectus, Baptisia arachnifera, and the most famous of all, Franklinia alatamaha now known only in cultivation. These and 198 other species are included in this book.

The Endangered Species Act is now endangered, ironically at a time when so much good work spon- sored by that legislation, like the present volume, is being produced. After a concise introduction and over- view of the book, each of the 103 species are discussed

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Concluding the work is a county by county occur- rence list (no mean task in a state with more than 150 counties!), distribution of the 103 species by physio- graphic provinces, laws, and most pragmatically, forms that observers can send to nominate a species and rec- ord a sighting. A list of common names concludes the book.

Overall, what impresses me most about Protected Plants of Georgia is its user friendliness and exhaustive treatment (although I was surprised that two endemic quillworts, lsoetes georgiana and L boomii were not included).

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