Bryolog 4 (1 June 2016)

Upcoming

• Next year’s SO BE FREE will be near Sequoia National Park. Please register now…
• Paul Wilson will lead a walk for the Northcoast Chapter on Saturday 4 June, 9:00 to maybe 3:00. Meet inside Redwood Park beyond 14th Street, into the Community Forest, in Arcata. Bring lunch, water, hand lens, paper packets or envelopes.
• Microscope days at CSU Northridge. More…
• We are planning on co-hosting Chapter Council 2-4 December with the East Bay Chapter. More details to appear in the next issue of Bryolog.
• Run for office on Chapter’s board of directors. More…

Quarterly Report

• SO BE FREE in Sonoma County was a big success. For a species list…

Timeless Bits

• David Wagner has graciously given many of his teaching materials to the chapter. They will be gradually added to the website and/or the California Moss eFlora.
• Dan Paquette is the author of a new book of poems. For a sample poem…

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Microscope Days

While beginner trips and slideshows take a break over the summer, we will have some days when people will gather at Cal State University Northridge. For now, we’ve set aside 23 June and 21 July, but check the events menu on the webpage for possible additional Microscope Days. We are planning on working from 9:00-4:00, but if you are trying to dodge traffic, just tell us. This is a leaderless gathering. There will be no prepared presentation. Instead, we can bring our own bryos to share and to key out. Kids and other beginners should be accompanied by intermediate (or advanced) bryologists. Parking on campus costs $6, off campus is free if you want to walk a few blocks. Email bryophyte@cnps.org for more information.

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Run for Office

Every year we have an election. Terms are for two years starting the 1 January. This fall we will be voting on candidates for the offices of “Field-trip Director” and “Secretary” (explained in the Standing Rules). If you wish to run, fill out the LINKED FORM. Furthermore, many local chapters lack a liaison (see Contacts); to volunteer, email bryophyte@cnps.org.

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Tentative Species List from SO BE FREE in Sonoma County

During SO BE FREE 21, 18-21 March 2016, we recorded the following species. Location codes (given in parentheses) are cyo=camp, ar=Armstrong Redwoods, au=Austin Creek, fc=Finley Cove, bg=Bohemian Grove, hg=Harrison Grade. Please email additions and corrections to bryophyte@cnps.org.

MOSSES
Acaulon muticum (cyo); Alsia californica (ar au fc); Anacolia menziesii (au); Antitrichia californica (au); Atrichum selwynii (cyo au); Aulacomnium androgynum (au); Bartramia aprica [stricta] (au); Brachythecium albicans (au); Brachythecium frigidum (au); Bryolawtonia vancouveriensis (au bg fc); Bryum argenteum (au); Ceratodon purpureus (au); Claopodium whippleanum (au); Crumia latifolia (au); Dendroalsia abietina (au cyo); Dicranoweisia cirrata (au ar cyo); Didymodon eckeliae (au); Didymodon nicholsonii (au); Didymodon norrisii (au); Didymodon vinealis (au); Ephemerum serratum (cyo); Epipterygium tozeri (au); Eucladium verticillatum (ar); Fabronia pusilla (au); Fissidens bryoides (bg); Fissidens crispus (au); Fissidens curvatus (au); Fissidens sublimbatus (au); Gemmabryum barnesii (au); Gemmabryum gemmilucens (au); Gemmabryum vinosum (au); Grimmia laevigata (au); Grimmia lisae (au); Grimmia trichophylla (au); Hedwigia detonsa (au); Homalothecium arenarium (au); Homalothecium nuttallii (au); Homalothecium pinnatifidum (au); Imbribryum miniatum (au); Isothecium cristatum (au fc); Isothecium stoloniferum (au fc); Kindbergia oregana (au); Kindbergia praelonga (au); Metaneckera menziesii (au); Nogopterium gracile (au); Orthodicranum tauricum (ar); Orthodontium gracile (ar); Orthotrichum coulteri (au); Orthotrichum papillosum (au); Orthotrichum rupestre (au); Phascum cuspidatum (cyo); Pleuridium acuminatum (au cyo); Porotrichum bigelovii (au cyo); Pseudobraunia californica (au); Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans (au cyo); Ptychomitrium gardneri (au); Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum (au); Racomitrium heterostichum (au); Rosulabryum canariense (au); Rosulabryum gemmascens (ar); Scleropodium obtusifolium (au); Scleropodium touretii (au); Syntrichia princeps (au); Timmiella crassinervis (au); Tortula bolanderi (au); Tortula muralis (cyo); Weissia controversa (au); Zygodon rupestris (fc).

HORNWORTS
Anthoceros fusiformis (au); Phaeoceros pearsonii (au); Phaeoceros carolinianus (au); Phymatoceros bulbiculosus (cyo).

LIVERWORTS
Asterella bolanderi (au); Asterella californica (au); Calypogeia fissa; Cephaloziella divaricata (au); Cephaloziella turneri (au); Cryptomitrium tenerum (au); Fossombronia pusilla (au); Frullania bolanderi (au); Jungermannia rubra (cyo); Porella bolanderi (au); Porella navicularis (au); Radula bolanderi (ar); Sphaerocarpos texanus (au); Targonia hypophylla (au).

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Sample Poem

Often, We Are Permitted to Dwell in Small Places

The shower has ended. I agree to follow you
beyond the alders, the sun, and salmonberry.
The wind is chilly; it’s unpredictable; it sways
the licorice ferns. A moment later, it dangles
plum blossoms, then sprays its damp air on us. Yeah,

I see drab, disheveled Plagiomnium venustum
embroidered in the crook of that maple limb.
Bulbous is (was) the water drop rolling down
the bark inundating leaves. Rotifers resurrect
in newly formed cubic millimeter pools. Below them:

hormones in cell walls begin signaling; receptors
acquiescing; phosphorylation redesigns proteins,
enzymes inspect pedestrian amino groups. RNA
messengers are bustling, fussing over ribosomes.
Mighty the chloroplasts! After some stumbling steps,

clocked rhythms enlist chlorophyll-binding proteins.
Cytosol surges against cell walls. Nanomechanical
children, come listen. Detect sounds of molecules
motoring, transporting freight along microtubules,
my friend residing in Salem paints only still-life.

—J. Dan Paquette. 2015. Litany of the Plants.

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