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Progress
- watch these charts!
Only
graphs for part 1 are shown; part 2 was published,
as Flora of North America volume 25, in May, 2003.
Date last edited:
November, 2005
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| Explanations
Each of the graphs shows the status
of two key parts of the Manual of Grasses for North America, generic
treatments and illustrations.
Part
1: This part corresponds to Flora North America, vol.
24. It will include the family description, two keys to the genera,
and treatment of the tribes, genera, and species of the Pharoideae,
Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pooideae. At present, it includes
147 genera and 665 species.
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in Text Graphs:
"Received" means exactly that
- we have a reasonable looking manuscript in hand.
"General Edit" means that Dr.
Kathleen Capels has put the manuscript into Manual format and
then gone through it for consistency between keys and descriptions and,
to a lesser extent, for parallelism in the descriptions.
"Science Edit" is conducted by
Mary Barkworth, Sandy Long, and Laurel Anderton. It involves making descriptions more
explicit (e.g., changing "long hairs to "hairs 2-3 mm"),
checking the keys (they should work), and reviewing the descriptions
for consistency of fact and wording between treatments and keys.
"Regional Review" means that
we have sent the edited copy out for review to over 75 taxonomists around
the country. Anderton, Long, and Barkworth examine the reviewers' comments, address
as many of the issues raised as possible, and then send the amended
manuscript to the contributor for comment and/or approval. If approved,
the manuscript is made available on the Web
as a draft treatment.
"Final" means ready to be moved
into the publication program, a step that cannot be taken until we have
the illustrations and maps in publication-ready format and have compared
the generic description with the keys to genera and tribes.
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in Illustration Graphs
Illustrations are started after an approved (or almost approved)
treatment is in hand. At present we do not have the funding needed for
additional work on the illustrations for part 1.
Penciled or inked illustrations are
sent to the contributors for approval. After any necessary changes have
been made, the drawings are sent to OUP for scanning. Once scanned,
scale bars and labels are added to the scan, based on the illustrator's
penciled marks. We have not yet sent any of the illustrations for volume
24 to be scanned. |
