In Wild Flowers of the United States Vol. I Plate 73 and Vol. II Plate 114, fruiting Monotropa hypopithys is called Monotropsis odorata. We, accordingly, publish here a photograph of Pygmy Pipe taken 8 May 1968 by Col. Donald W. Noake. The plants, discovered by Bernice M. Speese, grew beside the Colonial Parkway, east of Williamsburg and within twenty yards of the parking area at Jones Millpond. We saw Monotropsis there again 31 January 1969.
I had known about the “red pipestone quarry” about as long as I could remember but for some reason did not know its exact location until my good friends Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Reynolds were transferred there from Medora, North Dakota in 1954. For anyone traveling U. S. Highway 75 it is directly on the north side of the town of Pipestone, hardly half a mile from the highway.
The flavonoids of white and green ash were extracted from foliage samples. Flavonoids were separated by paper chromatography with several developing solvents. Two flavones, the 7- and 3′-glucosides of luteolin, were found to be present in white ash and absent in green ash. Identification was made by Rf values and confirmed by spectrophotogrametric analysis.
Dr. Daniel Drake (1785-1852), Cincinnati physician, scientist, and civic leader, published in his book, . . . Picture of Cincinnati . . . (1816), a description of the sweet or yellow buckeye under the name Aesculus maxima. This plant name, a synonym of A. octandra Marsh., has not been a part of botanical literature. The circumstances which led Drake to name and publish the description of A. maxima are briefly reviewed and evaluated. A search for a type specimen reveals that four contemporary sources mention Drake’s plant collection, but the whereabouts of his herbarium, if it still exists, is not known.
In an earlier paper (Wells, 1965) I reviewed important morphological characteristics of Polymnia canadensis and of P. laevigata without particular reference to their interrelationships or phylogenetic position within this western-hemisphere genus. After further study of the 19 presently-recognized species constituting Polymnia it is now clear that the subgenus Polymnia should herein be initially recognized and that its only constituents are Polymnia canadensis L., the type species of the genus, and Polymnia laevigata Beadle. Both species are restricted to eastern North America. Remaining subgenera, to be discussed elsewhere, will encompass the shrub and tree forms of South America as well as the herbaceous species on both continents.
As in the previous papers of this series,’ the type specimens are at the L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University, unless otherwise indicated. Hyphenated numbers refer to collections made by Albert M. Fuller, and are in the herbarium of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Unhyphenated numbers refer to collections made by Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Davis, and are in their private herbarium at Morgantown. In most cases, only a few collections, which indicate the known range of the species, are cited.
Buncombe County, with an area of about 640 square miles, is located in the Blue Ridge physiographic province of the Appalachian Highlands (Fenneman, 1938). The county may be physiographically divided (Fig. 1) into two sections, an intermountain plateau and the mountain ranges (U.S.D.A., 1954). The intermountain plateau, a strath terrace called the Asheville Peneplain by Fenneman (1938), is a broad valley through which flow the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers. Land is undulating and hilly, with elevations ranging from 1,740 to 2,367 feet. Several mountain ranges occur within the county, and the highest point is 6,419 feet at the summit of Potato Knob. The most rugged mountains are in northeastern and southwestern portions of the county.
An annotated list of species includes 580 new to Washington County, 208 new to southwestern Virginia, and three species new to the State.
A vegetational analysis of eleven fresh-water springs in southern Illinois revealed several communities of vascular and non-vascular plants in and near each spring.