Morris Some Plants of West Virginia. 179 



ville, Wyoming County, altitude 1150 feet, August 13-19, 

 1900 (Morris, 1203a). 



Boraginaceae. 



MYOSOTIS LAX A Lehm. 



About a spring near Kegley, Mercer County, altitude 2090 feet, 

 July 21, 1900 (Morris, 1041). 



Labiatae. 



BLEPHILIA CILIATA (L,) Raf. 



On dry banks at Bargers Spring, Summers County, altitude 1500 

 feet, July 13, 1900 (Morris, 999); thickets near Kegley, Mercer 

 County, altitude 2100 feet, July 27, 1900 (Morris, 1067). 



Solanaceae. 



Solarium Carolinense L. 



This species and Vearbesina occidental-its were the tommonest 

 weeds throughout the range. 



Plantaginaceae. 



PL ANT AGO AKISTATA Michx. 



Previously reported only by State in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 27: 



108. 

 Dry meadows near Bargers Spring, Summers County, altitude 



1500 feet, July 13, 1900 (Morris, 983). 



Campanulaceae. 



Campanula dii-aricata Michx. 



Millspaugh & Nuttall mention "the rare Campanula divaricata 

 . MX." among the bell-worts or bellflowers. If the southern 

 counties are to be taken into consideration in rating the oc 

 currence of species in the State, then this species can not be 

 accounted "rare" for the more rocky hillsides throughout are 

 heavily blue-dotted in the Summer with its delicate panicles. 



Compositae. 



Vernonia gigantea pubescens subsp. nov. 



In gross characters like the species. Reaching 10 or over, 

 more or less pubescent. Leaves thin, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 the upper finely, the lower sharply doubly serrate, 3 / -12 / long, 

 i'-S-J' wide, finely pubescent below, somewhat so above; in 

 florescence open, its branches rather erect, the peduncles 

 bracteatefor 2" -5" below the heads; the heads long-peduncled 

 or the centre ones nearly sessile; the bracts greenish purple, 

 acute to short-acuminate, ciliate, erect; corollas light to dark 

 pink, not purple; otherwise as in the species. 



Collected among plants of the species along Hound Creek, be 

 low Baileysville, Wyoming County, altitude 1100-1200 feet, 

 August 20, 1900 (Morris, 1274). Type specimen is deposited 

 in the U. S, National Herbarium. 



