In response to many suggestions that Claytonia, the publication of the Virginia Committee on State Flora, be printed, the first number in the attractive new dress appeared in July, 1936.
In response to many suggestions that Claytonia, the publication of the Virginia Committee on State Flora, be printed, the first number in the attractive new dress appeared in July, 1936.
As the train glided down the Pacolet gorge toward Tryon, in Polk Co., North Carolina, I looked eargerly out of the window. It was ten years since I had seen this nay favorite collecting ground.
The American Chestnut whose generic name, Castanea, has been chosen as the name of this Journal, is primarily a tree of the Appalachian region. Its geographic distribution is roughly as follows: “Southern Maine to the Valley of the Winooski River, Vermont, and southern Ontario, along the southern shore of Lake Ontario to southern Michigan, southward to Delaware and southeastern Indiana, and along the Alleghany Mountains to central Alabama and Mississippi, and to central Kentucky and Tennessee; very common on the glacial drift of the northern states and, except at the north, mostly confined to the Appalachian hills; attaining its greatest size in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee”.