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thickly in a black spruce swamp, from which much of the timber had been 
removed, that an ecologist might well call it a Marchantia formation instead 
of a black spruce formation. Several species of hepatics have been collected 
at Cranesville on the border line between West Virginia and Maryland at an 
elevation of about 2500 feet. The meadows around Cranesville reminded me 
at the time I was there of the meadows of New England, except that there 
were no plants of Ranunculus bulbosus. 
The best place to collect hepatics that I have found is at Cheat Bridge in 
Randolph County. Last summer a party of us camped there for a week. 
We certainly landed in the rainy season, for the sun did not shine for more 
than a half a day while we were there, and rain fell the remainder of the 
time. But what a place for mosses, hepatics and lichens, and how they were 
growing and fruiting ! The rocks and decaying tree trunks were covered 
with a thick carpet of mosses and hepatics and the tree trunks with 
lichens. Specimens collected here have already found their resting place in 
the herbaria of several members of the Sullivant Moss Chapter. 
The places that I have named are probably no richer in species of hepa- 
tics than many others in the State. The broad strip of mountains to the 
east and southeast, where nearly all of the larger streams have their origin, 
and where there is still much timber, should furnish many species not 
yet reported for the State. While the number of species of hepatics 
reported for West Virginia is not large, I have thought it worth. while to 
bring such records as I have been able to secure together adding the new 
ones that I have collected. 
The following list is compiled from the Flora of West Virginia (Mill- 
spaugh, C. F. and Nuttall, L. W. Flora of West Virginia. Pub. Field Colum- 
bian Museum, 9: Bot. Ser. 1 , 3, 65-276. Jan. 1896.), the Bryologist ( 1 . c.), 
The Proceedings of the Biological.Society of Washington, D. C. (Morris, E. 
L.) Some Plants of West Virginia, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 13 : 171-182. Oct. 
31, 1900. (Pollard, Charles L. and Maxon, William R.) Some new and 
additional records on the flora of West Virginia, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 14 : 
160-163. Aug. 9, 1901, the specimens in the herbarium of the West Vir- 
ginia Agricultural Experiment Station, and from specimens in my own 
herbarium. In so far as possible, habitat and locality is given. I have not 
had access to the reports on the floras of the State, published before Mill- 
spaugh and Nuttall’s Flora of West Virginia, so that the habitat, locality and 
name of the collector can not be given for a number of species. Miss C. C. 
Haynes has examined duplicates of nearly all the specimens in the herbaria 
referred to and some of the originals; she has also given much valuable 
assistance in revising the nomenclature. 
MARCH ANTI ACE AE. 
Conocephalum coNicuM (L.) Dumont. On rocks beside stream, Randall, 
Monongalia County (Sheldon, 177). Cooper’s Rock, Monongalia County 
(Post, 1669). On rock beside stream, north of Morgantown, Monon- 
galia County (Sheldon, 1308). Below falls of Falling Run, University 
