Notes and News: Saxifraga Pensylvanica and West Virginia
Notes and News: Saxifraga Pensylvanica and West Virginia
Book Reviews: A New Edition of Schuyler Mathews’ American Wild Flowers
Book Reviews: Vascular Plants of Illinois
Mammoth Cave National Park, comprising about 50,000 acres, lies, in west central Kentucky. The area embraces parts of three counties: Edmonson, Barren and Hart, with the largest part in Edmonson.
Last year, principally on the basis of study of herbarium material, several relatives of Hedyotis caerulea L. were reduced to varietal status under that species (Fosberg, Castanea 19: 30-31, 1954). This spring, through an invitation by Dr. Roland MVI. Harper, an opportunity was afforded to study one of these, var. minor, in the field at a number of localities in Alabama and Georgia. Many hundreds of plants were seen and collections were made from eight colonies, mostly near Tuscaloosa, between there and Livingston and Prattville, Alabama, and along the Flint River, southwest of Roberta, Georgia. Certain details of occurrence and morphology were observed which are not easy to learn from herbarium material and which should be placed on record, especially those in which this plant differs from var. caerulea.
This article treats of some of the plants (excluding practically all the grasses, sedges and rushes) of extreme Northeast Tennessee. The area covered is a triangle, with the Virginia line forming one of the sides and the North Carolina line another side, and embracing the counties of Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington. So far as, I know, this is the first article devoted exclusively to plants of this particular area.