According to Mr. John A. Derks, Cheoah District Ranger of the U. S. Forest Service, the Fraser Fir (Abies fraseri) reported for Haw Knob of the N. C.-Tenn. border by Mr. Jon E. DeVore (Castanea 37: 148. 1972) is transplanted.
According to Mr. John A. Derks, Cheoah District Ranger of the U. S. Forest Service, the Fraser Fir (Abies fraseri) reported for Haw Knob of the N. C.-Tenn. border by Mr. Jon E. DeVore (Castanea 37: 148. 1972) is transplanted.
In a previous paper (Eleuterius, L. N. 1972. The marshes of Mississippi. Castanea. vol. 37 (3):153-168) certain estimates of organic productivity of salt marsh were erroneously stated and are herein corrected. Specific reference is made to page 163, the last sentence of the third paragraph of the above cited paper.
On page 107, in the June, 1972, issue of CASTANEA, under the discussion of Polygala, the name of James Garland Saulmon appeared incorrectly in two instances. In line 10 it should have appeared as J. G. Saulmon, not J. B. Saulmon. In line 22 it should have appeared as Saulmon, not Saumon.
While making routine checks of specimens in the Herbarium of West Virginia University during the past several months I found among misidentified or unstudied material several species previously unreported for West Virginia.
On 1 July 1972 we found a small flowering colony of thread-leaf sundews, Drosera filiformis, in the Cedarville State Forest, Charles County, Maryland.
Earlier this year West Virginia University published the second edition of Part II of the “Flora of West Virginia” by P. D. Strausbaugh (now deceased) and Earl L. Core. This part, including pages 275-576, treats families of the dicotyledons from the Saururaceae to and including the Leguminosae.
Dracocephalum virginianum L. (Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.) occurs widely in east-central North America, ranging from Quebec to Minnesota, south to Delaware and Missouri and in the Appalachians to North Carolina and Tennessee. Numerous varieties are found throughout this wide range, some of which have been described as separate species but mostly with intermediate forms difficult to distinguish.
The flora of the outer Otter Island, a coastal island of Colleton County, South Carolina at 32° 28′ North Latitude, 80° 24 West Longitude, were collected on July 12, 1971. Three plants of each taxon were collected, and vouchers were deposited in the herbarium at the University of South Carolina. Nomenclature follows that of Radford et al. (1968).
A few intergeneric and interspecific crosses were tried for studying the relationships within the subtribe Euphaseoleae and between the subtribes, Euphaseoleae and Cajaneae. Most of the crossings failed to produce normal seed. But the success of crossings between two species, one of Dolichos and one of Cajanus suggests a close relationship of the two genera of different subtribes.
In the course of general studies of Ranunculi collected from Nepal, the authors came across some specimens of special interest in having floral anomalies of significance. These specimens were collected in the alpine zone of Nepal. Fischer (1960) had also found a number of species of New Zealand buttercups of the alpine group that showed variations of leaf shape. The results of the study of the Nepal material seemed sufficiently interesting to warrant their publication.