Asteraceae and Compositae are synonymous; both names for this family are correct. This volume covers the 75 genera and 276 species of the sunflower family native to or naturalized in Ohio. It includes several types of identification keys for specialists and laypeople; maps showing distribution, abundance, and flowering periods, descriptions of each species and its habitat, and very clear drawings. Knowledge of botanical terms is helpful. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 2 provides an easy-to-use key to the genera and species and a complete description and nomenclatural and habitat notes for each plant, including its usefulness, if applicable--back cover.

This book covers the proceedings of a major 2006 symposium on macropods that brought together the many recent advances in the biology of this diverse group of marsupials, including research on some of the much neglected macropods such as the antilopine wallaroo, the swamp wallaby and tree-kangaroos. More than 80 authors have contributed 32 chapters, which are grouped into four themes: genetics, reproduction and development; morphology and physiology; ecology; and management. The book examines such topics as embryonic development, immune function, molar progression and mesial drift, locomotory energetics, non-shivering thermogenesis, mycophagy, habitat preferences, population dynamics, juvenile mortality in drought, harvesting, overabundant species, road-kills, fertility control, threatened species, cross-fostering, translocation and reintroduction. It also highlights the application of new techniques, from genomics to GIS. Macropods is an important reference for academics and students, researchers in molecular and ecological sciences, wildlife and park managers, and naturalists.

This second volume of renowned English botanist Alfred Barton Rendle's The Classification of Flowering Plants was published in 1925.