In the Castanea December 1980 issue (Vol. 45:4; pg. 278-281) a Notes and News “note” by Mary L. Smyth had two unfortunate errors committed.
In the Castanea December 1980 issue (Vol. 45:4; pg. 278-281) a Notes and News “note” by Mary L. Smyth had two unfortunate errors committed.
At the spring trustees meeting, conducted in May in Portland, Oregon, the trustees of the Holly Society of America, Inc., voted to split the office of Secretary/Treasurer into two positions.
Nancy C. Coile has been appointed Curator of the Herbarium of the University of Georgia.
Talinum teretifolium, thought to be extirpated in Tennessee, was discovered in Hamilton County. The known range of Lilium philadelphicum is extended to Hamilton and Sequatchie Counties. Cymophyllus fraseri and Lycopodium alopecuroides were found in Polk County, and Hydrastis canadensis was collected in Dekalb County.
The KAS Foundation for Botanical Research is now receiving applications for grants to be awarded. It is anticipated that up to $900 will be available to support student research. Deadline for receipt of applications by the Chairman of the foundation is April 1, each year.
Fimbristylis perpusilla Harper, formerly known from only two counties in southwest Georgia, is now documented from northeast South Carolina. Considered by Kral (1971) as the rarest species of Fimbristylis in North America, the South Carolina record is a range extension of approximately 600 km.
During the past year, ten new species of vascular plants have been identified or verified at the West Virginia University Herbarium as new records for the state of West Virginia.
The North Carolina Plant Conservation Program announces the availability of monies to qualified researchers for the purpose of studying plant species which are protected in the state.
State records or otherwise interesting reports for 21 foreign species of vascular plants are given for the southern United States. Most of the 21 appear to be weedy adventives either from the north or west, or spreading rapidly within the southern states; a few seem to be naturalizing escapes from gardens or nurseries.
Hypericum graveolens and H. mitchellianum are sympatric in the high mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. In this region three areas were found where few to many individuals were judged to be morphologically intermediate between the putative parents. These three populations as well as five populations of each of the putative parents were studied through morphological analysis. Breeding experiments conducted in the field as well as in the Botanical Garden showed that the hybrids produced experimentally were morphologically similar to the natural populations of intermediate plants. Hybridization must be occurring naturally to form the observed intermediates.