3I()rris — Some Plaiifx of Wtst Mryhiln. 177 



Caryophyllaceae. 



Silene Virginica L. 



Growing on a low roadside banl<, fully exposed to the sun, but 

 well supplied with root moisture. 



Anyrhia dirhotoma Michx. 



Millspaugh & Nuttall say "This species first appeared at this 

 locality in ISO.i, at the bottom of a newly excavated railroad 

 cut. Had the seeds been buried and dormant?" I should 

 say, no. This species was common with and nearly as abun- 

 dant as the next throughout the above mentioned counties. 

 It is probable that the newly excavated cut proved, perhaps 

 unusually, suitable for the germination of scattering seeds. 



Anychia Canadensis (L.) B. S. P. 

 Magnoliaceae. 



Mac/nolia tripetaht L. 



This and the next species form a very conspicuous part of the 

 forests along Dry Fork and Crane Creek in McDowell County, 

 and along the Guyandot River in Wyoming County. A great 

 many young trees are now filling the places made vacant by 

 the catling of a few selected trees of other species. It is no- 

 ticeable that until these trees reach the age of fiowering and 

 thereafter there is none of the characteristic umbrella-like 

 clustering of the leaves on the axis of the season but they are 

 strongly alternate and distant. This character confuses the 

 species with Magnolia acuminata in the young large-leaved 

 stage, unless the smoothness or pubescence of the leaf-buds 

 be noted. 



Podostemaceae. 



PoDOSTEMON Ceratophyllum Michx. 



Three well marked stages, (a; an entirely sessile growth on new 

 surfaces, (b) matted growth of previous seasons on old sur- 

 faces, with stems an inch or two high, (c) very old masses with 

 stems from five to eight inches high or as long where the cur- 

 rent prevented an erect habit; in the Guyandot River below 

 Baileysville, Wyoming County, altitude 1100 feet, August 15, 

 1900 {Morris, 1210). 



Crassulaceae. 



Penthorum sedoides L. 



Very luxuriant specimens three feet and more high were noted 

 in the delta of a spring under limestone cliffs below Baileys- 

 ville, Wyoming County. 



Rosaceae. 



Spiraea salicifolia L. 



Forming a hedge along a woodland swamp between Harvey and 

 Trap Hill, Raleigh County. 



