1 8 THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA 



dentalis, and several species of Pinus, as well as a few scant 

 growths of Ta.vus Minor. 



Among the sedges the principal item of interest is the re- 

 discovery in Fayette County of what was doubtless the original 

 type station of Cavex Fraseri, And. 



Of the Equisetaceae the most notable form so far found is 

 E. laeirigatum, Braun., gathered in the southernmost part of the 

 State thus extending its distribution southeastward. 



Of the Filices, the rarer forms found with us are : Poly po- 

 dium polypodioides; Pellaea atropurpurea in great quantities in 

 the southern section; Asplcnium pinnatifidum, montanum (plen- 

 tiful) and angustifolium; Dryopteris Goldieana, and marginalis 

 Cystopteris bulbifera; Dicksonia punctilobula; and strange to say 

 on the summit of Spruce Knob at an altitude of 4,800 ft. 

 Dryopteris fragrans, in such great quantity that it is cut and 

 stacked for fodder, this species being greatly relished by cattle. 



Lycopodium lucidulum, L., annotinum, L., obscurum and its 

 var. dendroideum, L., clavatmn, and L. complanatum are all 

 found in the forests of black spruce along the Alleghanies. 



In the mosses, hepatics, and lichens, but little collecting has 

 so far been done, no systemic searches having been made for 

 specimens in these classes of plants. In the search for hepatics 

 incidental to other exploration, in Mercer County, the dry bald 

 face of a large limestone cave yielded a new species in Plagio- 

 chila Virginica Evans, as well as a rarity in the eastern flora of 

 the United States, Radula Xalapensis, Mont. Among the mosses 

 we have been rewarded in our itinerant work by finding two new 

 forms Dicranodontium Virginicus, Britt. m. and D. Millspaugh't 

 Britt. m., as well as numerous noteworthy species. 



Beside these unique forms, we report many species from our 

 region that have not been before credited to the flora of North 

 America, include many hitherto unpublished asci and spore 

 measurements of species otherwise well described, and have 

 transferred many not before well understood. 



The host plants have proven also to be of special interest in 

 that many of them yield certain species for the first time in the 

 mycologic literature of this country, and many others pose as 

 altogether new to Host Indices. 



