A station for the Hairy Lip Fern, Cheilanthes lanosa D. C. Eaton (C. vestita Sw. of Gray’s Manual, 8th ed.) has been found growing in Cabell County at Martha, one mile south of Barboursville. The station was discovered by Mr. George Mumma on the Mumma farm along state road 31. The plants grow abundantly along a very narrow ridge on sandstone outcrops. Collections have been placed in the herbaria of West Virginia University and Marshall University. (Gillespie, 2183) .
The filmy fern, Trichomanes boschianum Strum (Hymenophyllaceae), is very rare in West Virginia. It was first discovered by Dr. Louis Plymale (Plymale, 1938) near Stiltner in Wayne County.
All species of vascular plants known to occur wild in Missouri are included in this work, published in November, 1963 by the Iowa State University Press. A monumental work of 1,725 double-column pages, more than 2,400 species are treated. The author is Julian A. Steyermark, whose field and herbarium studies of Missouri plants have extended over a period of more than thirty years.
The latest volume in the well-known Peterson Field Guide Series is this handy-sized volume of around 300 pages, treating about 600 species of the wildflowers most likely to be encountered in the Rocky Mountain region. The area covered extends from northern New Mexico and Arizona to British Columbia.
This little book is a distinct innovation in the category of wildflower guides, because, while we have had numerous works dealing with the plants of the northeastern United States “and adjacent Canada,” this is among the first to be written for eastern Canada “and the adjacent northeastern United States.” About 400 species of native wild flowers of the region can be identified from the text, and the families for many others can be determined. Four full-color plates illustrate 25 species and there are 298 black-and-white sketches.
This little book is designed to serve as a trail guide to Bowman’s Hill State Wild Flower Preserve, Washington Crossing State Park, but the excellent color photographs. black-and-white sketches, and clear descriptions make it of value to amateur botanists throughout the general area. Flowering dates are given, and the plants treated include wildflowers, vines, shrubs, ferns, and fern-allies. An index to common and Latin names is included.
It is unlikely that there will be another series of drawings of the British flora comparable to this one, now at its half-way mark. This is the 18th part and there will be about 36 parts in all. Now that the author is able to give much more time to the work it should be completed in about six years.
This paper-back book of 280 double-column pages is one of the first to provide an easy way to recognize the common plants of the extremely diversified flora of Mexico. Tourists on Mexican highways are bewildered by the great number of unfamiliar trees, shrubs, and herbs they see. Since Mexico has just about all climates from perpetual snow on mountain tops to tropical heat along the coasts, habitats are provided for an enormously large number of species.
This paper presents a list of additions to the known flora of Giles County, Virginia, as well as a catalogue of species for each of the various habitats found in the county.
The following list. based entirely on collections almost all of which are on file in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park herbarium and the Tennessee State herbarium at the University of Tennessee, follows generally the order of Gray’s Manual of Botany, eighth edition (1950). The list includes some 70 species of southeastern plants not included in the manuals for the plants of northeastern states and adjoining provinces but are described in other manuals and papers.