172 Mo rr in— Some Plaiitfi of ^V('Kf M/y/i/iio. 



rection of surface exposiire, 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 bottom-land 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 liimius; 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, supj)orted 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 cam'p, 

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

 tains. Mr. \Vm. 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 ap])roximately complete the 

 knowledge of its flora.* 



Thallophyta. 



Myxomycetes. 



Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Muell.) MacR. (Determined by O. F. 

 Cook.) 

 Along Delashmeet Creek, Mercer County,^ altitude 2090 feet, 

 July 25, 1900 {Morris, 946). 

 Physakum kufipes (A. & S.)Mor^an. (Determined by (). F. Cook.) 

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

 [Morris, 945). 



*Consult Millspaugh and Nuttall, Field Columbian Museum Publica- 

 tion 9. Jtot. Ser. i, 2 (Flora of West Virginia), 1890. 



