sentences:  Munz published "A California Flora" without any research support and with a relatively small subvention for publication to the University of California Press.James Hickman, editor of the 1993 revisions of "The Jepson Manual", writing in "The Blazing Star" (the newsletter of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society), Sept./Oct., 1993 states "Munz used a phylogenetic system which so far as I know has never been explained in print except for a statement on the inside of the front portion of the dust jacket, 'It abandons the conventional family order and attempts to follow that suggested by recent contributions from morphology and phylogeny.