168 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
A NEW STATION FOR THREE LOCAL APPALACHIAN PLANTS.—In 1894, 
Dr. J. K. Small described (Mem. Torr. Bot. Club 4: 112) a new 
species of native clover, Trifolium virginicum, as “growing on rocky 
slopes of Kate's Mountain, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in 
company with Clematis ovata." This is the only station given for 
this species in the seventh edition of Gray's Manual and in the 
second edition of Britton & Brown's Illustrated Flora. The species 
is omitted entirely from Dr. Small’s Flora of the Southeastern United 
States, which covers the area from North Carolina southward. But 
Miss L. F. McDermott, who in 1908 published a monograph of the 
“North American Trifoliums," reducing the plant to a variety of 
Trifolium reflexum L., states that it is “abundant throughout the 
Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States,” though she 
cites specimens only from Kate’s Mountain. The only specimens of 
- it in the Gray Herbarium are also from Kate's Mountain and Dr. 
Small has recently written me that “to say that the species is common 
in the Appalachian Mountains, may be prophecy, but such a state- 
ment certainly cannot be backed by good evidence." 
My interest in the distribution of the plant arose from the fact 
that besides having collected it on Kate's Mountain I have also found 
it growing on a slaty hillside at Virginia Hot Springs, Bath County, 
Virginia. That conditions here were very similar to those on Kate's 
Mountain was evidenced by the fact that with it at the Hot Springs 
was growing Clematis ovata, Pursh, the distribution of which is given 
in Dr. Small's Flora as “in dry soil, Kate's Mountain, West Virginia, 
and apparently first collected on. Negroes Head, a mountain of the 
Blue Ridge in South Carolina or Georgia." With it there was also 
found the rare and local Pseudotaenidia montana, Mackenzie, for 
which Kate’s Mountain and Luray Cavern are the only localities 
mentioned in Gray's Manual. Specimens of these three species 
from the Hot Springs have not been deposited in the Gray Herbarium. 
—F. W. HunNEWELL, Wellesley, Massachusetts. 
Vol. 25, no. 296, including pages 117 to 148 and portrait. plate, was issued 
28 August, 1928. 
