VOL. XIII, PP. 171-182 OCTOBER 31, 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



SOME PLANTS OF WEST VIRGINIA. 



BY E. L. MORRIS. 



During July and August, 1900, in company with Messrs. 

 Hay, Holt, Miller, Roller and Sterrett, of the United States 

 Fish Commission, to whose aid he is indebted in no small de 

 gree, the writer botanized a little in that part of West Virginia 

 which is south of the Greenbrier, New and Kanawha Rivers 

 and east of a northeast and southwest line bisecting the state 

 lengthwise. This portion of West Virginia comprises Sum 

 mers, Monroe, Mercer, McDowell, Wyoming and Raleigh 

 Counties, given in the order of travel. The nature of these 

 counties is very mountainous, though no very high altitudes are 

 reached, the extremes of the points visited being 975 feet at 

 laeger, McDowell County, and 3700 feet on East River Moun 

 tain, between Mercer County, West Virginia, and Bland Coun 

 ty, Virginia, while there are points reaching slightly over 4100 

 feet. Though the larger rivers trend in a westerly or north 

 westerly direction there are no definite chains of mountains in 

 these counties extending for more than a few miles, their ranges 

 being abruptly cut off by river tributaries of all sizes. These 

 small streams flow from all directions through such short and 

 deep valleys that the whole country is choppy. The advantage 

 to the botanist therefrom is the abundance of variety in the di- 

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