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F -- CONTINUATION OF A NATIONAL LIST OF PLANT SPECIES THAT OCCUR IN WETLANDS. POC Marlene L Haywood, (703) 358-1728. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to award a sole source contract for a sum not to exceed $105,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to continue and complete the data capture for the remaining 1,275 wetland vascular plants in the continental United States and revise the data assignments for 1,054 species of Grasses and Asteraceae for the Multiple Attribute Recognition System for Hydrophytes (MARSH). The University will do data capture from the literature and dried herbarium specimens and the incorporation of state distribution information for each species. The data will be merged with data previously gathered by Dr. John Kartesz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This project will complete the MARSH key to the vascular wetland plants of the United States. Consequently, the University of North Carolina is the only organization capable of providing the necessary information to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. See Note 22. (111)

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