— SHORTER NOTES 241 seems appropriate and practical that this widespread hybrid have a It may binomial. Perhaps providing this taxon with an epithet raise botanists* awareness of this taxon and spur future discoveries and understanding of hybrid. this — Polypodium Xincognitum Cusick, hybr, nov. Holotype: Ohio, Meigs Co County, sandstone exposures on mesic slope above Leading Creek, Rt 10, SW kml MU MICH. Hybrida Polypodium appalachianum virginianum exorta, char- e et P. aliis acteribus parentes media, sporis abortivus. inter My research was supported in part by the Division of Natural Areas and W. Ohio Department Natural Resources. Allison Cusick, Divi- Preserves, of sion of Natural Areas and Preserves, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, OH Columbus 1889 Fountain 43224. Sq. F-1, Ct., — New Lycopodium lagopus in West Virginia, West Virginia a southern is outpost many boreal species Larix laricina in Preston County] that for (e.g. were stranded in the state's highlands and arctic-like bogs following the last and West Mor- Strausbaugh E.L. Core, Flora of Virginia, glacial retreat (P.D. gantown WV, Seneca Books, 1997). Along the Allegheny Front, elevations m Lycopodium reach 1482 (Spruce Knob) and there are ten peaks over 1430 m. lagopus (Laestradius ex Hartman) G. Zinserling ex Kuzeneva-Prochorova, C. more Murmansk generally northern in distribution, Obi. 1:80, 1953), its (Fl. A was recently located here as well. small, but thriving population grows on now used country Blackwater the of a coal strip mine, as a cross ski trail in site Tucker County, an elevation of about 1070 m. sister spe- Falls State Park, at Its clavatum, also here in abundance, but the two lycopods remain dis- cies, L. is more compact on slender peduncles, a lagopus features single strobili tinct; L. growth more appressed and shorter leaves, and sporophylls that taper habit, gradually to a hair tip. monostachyon Hooker and clavatum Lycopodium lagopus (formerly var. L. common name North by **one-cone club-moss*' [Flora Greville) goes the apt of many New America, York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1993). shares characters It common growth and branching with club moss, clavatum, general the L. e.g., and hair-tipped leaves, but clavatum has multi- patterns, stalked strobili, L. and on most peduncles, spreading longer two) of ple strobili (typically its No and end abruptly in hair hybrids are docu- sporophylls that tips. leaves, between mented between these closely related species, nor, for that matter, any species in the genus Lycopodium s,s. This is in sharp contrast to the many 1956 within the related genera Lycopodiella, hybrids described since Huperzia, and Dipbasiastrum Eiger, Biol. Rev. City Coll. 18:17-22. 1956; (J. Flora North America), of As lagopus occurs from Alaska Newfoundland, Green- a boreal plant, to L. 242 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL: VOLUME NUMBER 92 3 (2002) land, Scandinavia, and northern Eurasia. In the contiguous 48 has states it been New reported from Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, York, New now Hampshire, Vermont, and West Michigan would Virginia. be the known km neighbor West closest of the Virginia population, about 650 dis- tant [Flora North America, The West of cited above]. Virginia the site is flat top of an abandoned coal mine within Blackwater strip Falls State Park, near town The the of Davis. park was established in 1937, and mining operations within borders ceased its prior to that. Since that time a remarkable assem- blage of plants has reclaimed mine the coal spoils piled along the highwall. In cool ravines there Tsuga canadensis, while on is the open, sunny, coal- strewn areas Picea nibens, Acer rubrum, Rhododendron maximum, Kalmia and latifoUa, Vacciniiim species dominate the woodv Three orchids flora. are amon Many the Wo group of fern has reclaimed allies also this disturbed, acidic habitat, includ- ing Lycopodiella inundata on moist near soil the ponds. Diphasiastrum digi- tatum, D. tristachyum, and their hybrid D. Xhabereri abundant on are exposed Lycopodium obscurum, tailings. dendroideum, and L. hickeyi L. al- wooded so occur along the And, edges. the aforementioned clavatum L. is found in nearly surrounding all habitats. Several Dryopteris and species Pteridium aquiUnum some (with common rare, fertile colonies) are also in immediate AspJenium montanum the area. grows on granite rocks along the Pase and nearby, appalachiana trail Vittaria (Appalachian gametophyte] is under spreading sandstone a ledge near the prominent which waterfall for the 683 hectare (1688 park named. acre) is The Lycopodium lagopus colony consists of about a dozen long rhizomes, three occurring on exposed Woodcock soil adjacent to the and Trail the rest m in a protected area about low woods 6 into spruce beyond The the trail. colony probably and clonal is quite nearly is fertile, upright shoots all bear- when ing characteristic single was strobili the surveyed site in mid-July, A 2001. voucher specimen one of upright shoot was fertile, collected for de- ^ ^ ^ -V -4ta 4M Mus CM) but hardly the only known it is disjunct, rare pteridophyte West in Virginia. The western Asplenium species septentrionale and Cheilanthes eatonii [C. castanea) occur on shale in Hardy and Monroe Counties (W. H. Wagner, Ann. Missouri Bot. Card. 59:203-217, 1972).— Jr., Joan Eiger Gottlieb, 2310 Marburv PA Road. 1R971 Pittsburgh.