The boreal species Mitella nuda L. is attributed to Champaign County, Ohio, by Schaffner (1932), and to northern Ohio by Fernald (1950). Schaffner’s report is based on a single specimen collected by M. G. Williams in what is now Cedar Bog Nature Preserve.
Dr. Ward M. Sharp, well-known for years for his work in wildlife habitat ecology, is presently donating his valuable collection of hawthorns to the West Virginia University Herbarium.
Walnut Hill is an area of about 33 acres in Montgomery County, Virginia, 6 1/2 miles NE of Blacksburg, on state road # 628.
In the most recent comprehensive taxonomic treatment of Enemion and its allies of Tribe Isopyreae Schrodinger (Ranunculaceae), Tamura and Lauener (Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 28: 270. 1968) omitted a previously described species endemic to the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, viz., Isopyrum savilei Calder & Taylor.
Picea rubens (red spruce) was found during the summer of 1977 in Cathedral State Park, West Virginia.
A recent collection is noteworthy in that it represents a new species for the state flora.
Previously considered as Utricularia fimbriata Kunth, the tropical disjunct U. simulans Pilger was observed growing in western Colrer County, Florida. Though previously reported rather widely in appropriate habitats in southern Florida, the older stations have been largely decimated by drainage and urbanization. Therefore, new stations were located. The habitat is moist sandy soils with very low nutrient content, mostly bordering the Big Cypress Swamp. In such areas, the species occurred in massive clumps with flowering peak in late October, and generally in openings among stands on Pinus elliottii v. densa and Serenoa repens.
The natural history of the Tribe Gossypieae, family Malvaceae, is given here in a very complete form.
This paper is the result of a study on the woody plants known to occur in the Francis Marion National Forest. Two hundred thirty-two taxa of woody plants are reported, together with a statement concerning the habitat of each. A brief description of the major habitats in the forest is included.
To determine the response of honeysuckle, forbs, grasses, and shrubs of a piedmont pine forest to fire, prescribed burns were conducted in April of 1978 and 1979 in an experimental forest of the Ecological Reserve at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina. The two fires reduced coverage and crown volume of honeysuckle by 35 and 80 percent, respectively. Shrub coverage and crown volume also decreased, while grasses and forbs increased. The results indicate that mild surface fires in the spring may rapidly alter the composition of ground flora of piedmont pine stands without significantly affecting the understory and overstory tree strata.