The New York Botanical Garden has just put up three new lichen web sites. The first one (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/french_guiana/graphidaceae.html) is on the preliminary work on the Graphidaceae of Central French Guiana, based on work by Rebecca Yahr. The emphasis is on the genus Graphis, with the other large genus, Graphina, planned for the future. The second site (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/lichens/eln/) is the web page for the Eastern Lichen Network. It contains a history of the organization and the Tuckerman Lichen Workshops, an address directory of the participants, the first three parts of the Lichen Flora of Eastern North America, and an unpublished key to the lichens occurring on limey substrates in eastern North America by R. C. Harris. The third site (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/lichens/ozarks/) is the page for the Lichens of the Ozarks project of R. C. Harris (NYBG) and Douglas M. Ladd (The Nature Conservancy). The Ozarks are an ancient highlands area in the central United States, principally in the states of Missouri and Arkansas. The site contains a project description, a preliminary checklist of the ca. 500 lichens known from the area, and a preliminary manuscript on 75 undescribed taxa from the area (ca. 15% of the total flora). (Bill Buck, New York).

The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany (US National Herbarium) has a new internet accessible database available through its Web site. Ellen Farr, Beatrice Wilde Hale, and Paula DePriest have completed and posted "Parmeliaceae: A Searchable List of Names in the Parmelioid Genera (Lichens)". The database is an updated and internet-accessible form of an electronic database originally developed in the late 1980s by Smithsonian Lichen Curator Mason E. Hale, Jr. (1928-1990). Volunteer B.W. Hale spent over five years editing and updating the list - adding new and omitted epithets, correcting spellings, and modernizing the classification - and recently published it with co-author DePriest (Bryologist 102: 462-544. 1999). The new database structure, set up by E. Farr in Microsoft Access with a Web interface developed using Cold Fusion, allows searches by genus name or species epithet, provides accepted names and generates lists of synonyms. The goal of the database project was to provide a convenient reference for locating the accepted genus among 35 recent generic segregants of Parmelia s. lat. for over 2,500 species epithets. Already the database has proved a valuable tool for locating species and specimens among various classification schemes in publications and in the US National Herbarium. Visit the Department of Botany's home page (http://www.nmnh.si.edu/departments/botany.html) and look in the "Research" section or under "Lichens" in the site index.

Bulletin of the California Lichen Society - The California Lichen Society Bullletin, now in its 6^th year, has published papers on a wide variety of lichenological subjects. Some of the issues can be seen at: http://ucjeps.herb.berkeley.edu/rlmoe/cals.html

Checklist of Estonia - The checklist of lichenized, lichenicolous and allied fungi of Estonia is now available at http://www.ut.ee/lichens/fce.html

Checklist of Australia - The checklist of Australian lichens (updated to November 1999) can now be viewed at the ABRS website: http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/lichenlist/introduction.html - The checklist includes publication details of 2820 accepted species and infraspecific taxa in 363 genera, as well as several thousand synonyms and misapplied names. In addition, basic information is provided on distribution in the eight Australian States and Territories; also Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island (SW Pacific Ocean) and Macquarie Island (Subantarctic).