172 Morris Some' JVimt* <>f in.s-f 



rection of surface exposure, of springs and small streams, of 

 sandstone and limestone cliff and talus formations, of vast 

 forest tracts not until the present falling to the axe, and of oc 

 casional stretches, narrow to be sure, of bottomland along the 

 larger streams. The great impression is that of many mountains 

 for the most part well timbered. The impression from minute 

 characters is that there is a constant supply of moisture. Al 

 though the Summer of 1900 was so dry that many springs and 

 streams reputed to be constant went dry, the mountains not yet 

 deforested were covered with a rich, moist humus; the rocks 

 were hidden under mosses and lichens till the surface looked 

 like a vast tapestry; the fields and open hillsides, exposed to 

 the sun, supported everywhere between the stems and roots of 

 higher plants a filling of mosses and liverworts* These condi 

 tions are traceable to the nightly enveloping of every summit 

 and the filling of every valley with clouds. 



In making the following records and collections, the writer 

 practically was limited by other requirements to the country 

 immediately adjacent to the roads traversed from camp to camp, 

 along a few of the streams, and to only three summits of moun 

 tains. Mr. Wm. R. Maxon of the National Herbarium has 

 kindly determined and described as new a subspecies of Poly- 

 podium. 



The object of publishing this ^ list, containing forty-seven 

 species unreported from West Virginia, and two new sub 

 species is to show the need of very active collecting in the ex 

 treme southern part of the State to approximately complete the 

 knowledge of its flora.* 



Thallophyta. 

 Myxomycetes. 



CERATIOMYXA FRUTICULOSA (Muell.) MacB. (Determined by O. F. 

 Cook.) 

 Along Delashmeet Creek, Mercer County, altitude 2090 feet. 



July 25, 1900 (Morris, 946). 



PHYBARUM RUFIPES (A. & S.)Morgan. (Determined by O. F. Cook.) 

 Along Tugg Creek, Hinton, Summers County, July 10, 1900 

 (Morris, 945). 



*Consult Millspaugh and Nuttall, Field Columbian Museum Publica 

 tion 9. Bot. Ser. i, 2 (Flora of West Virginia), 1S9<>. 



