A New Station for Trichomanes Petersii

Abstract

The mountain is cut up by many deep gorges which empty the water of the tableland into the Tennessee River which lies to the west. Growing along these cool, damp gorges one will find a varied flora. There occurs a strong mingling of types that are at home in the Alleghenian area of the adjoining states and of North Carolina with plants of the lower ranges within the Carolinian area, the like of which has not been observed in any other part of the mountain region of Alabama. Among the woody plants peculiar to the Alleghenian area, Rhodendron catawbiense and Tsuga canadensis are the most prominent. Among the more rare ferns one finds Asplenium Bradleyi, A. montanum, A. pinnatifidum, A. Trichomanes and occasionally Pellaea atropurpurea growing along the sandstone cliffs, and lower down, where the creek bed has been cut into the limestone shales, Camptosorus rhizophyllus and Dryopteris spinulosa intermedia occur. Where the sandstone is kept continuously wet one will find an occasional bed of Trichomanes radicans.