Wilbert M. Frye, 72, a charter member of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club, died on August 18, 1969, near his home at Augusta, West Virginia.
Wilbert M. Frye, 72, a charter member of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club, died on August 18, 1969, near his home at Augusta, West Virginia.
On June 25, 1969, while inspecting farms in the Southern Soil Conservation District, I found in a farm pond near Lookout, Fayette County, a number of plants of Eleocharis quadrangulata (Michx.) R. & S. This species has previously been found in West Virginia only in Shawnee Lake, Mercer County.
The several pertinent floras before me indicate that Micheliella verticillata (Baldw.) Briq. is a rare plant in Virginia and the Carolinas. I accordingly call attention to a collection of this species which I made in Virginia thirty years ago
The Congaree swamp, located within 20 miles of Columbia, South Carolina, contains a large stand of mature Pinus taeda.
About 40 papers, many of them classical in their field, are included in this important collection, brought together from many sources. The papers are arranged in five sections, namely Changes in Populations, The Origin of Species, Reticulate Evolution, Major Features of Evolution, and the Evolution of Man. Nearly half of the entire book is included in Part IV.
The publication in July, 1969 of Part 1 of this monumental work completes a 25-year project to provide a guide to the Northwestern flora. The result has been the production of a reference work of tremendous significance to the region.
Study of diagnostic characters on herbarium specimens shows that approximately half of the Ohio specimens of the Stachys hispida-S. tenuifolia complex are easily assignable to one species or the other. The remainder, with various combinations of characters and/or intermediate characters, are referrable to a species only with difficulty or are impossible to place in either. Ohio specimens are best treated as a single variable species.
The Marshall Forest flora, dispersed through Pine-Oak, Hickory Plant Communities, numbers 300 taxa of which most range widely over eastern and southeastern United States.
Several abiotic factors are considered in an attempt to explain the locally discontinuous distribution of Draba ranwsissima in Kentucky.