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aie principally sandstone, limestone, and shale. The special features of the now very- 

 fertile and tlien qnite sterile soils compounded of the ahove deposits and roclcs, we 

 need not enter into in this place ; suffice it to say that our soils give us a varied llora, 

 and one often widely different in localities only a few miles apart. * » * 



With the exception of a few transient botanists who have worked over, for their 

 own personal pleasure, the neighborhood of some vacation resort in the State, the 

 only attempts at obtaining a knowledge of the vegetable resonrces of the State nmy 

 be sunnnarized as follows : 



1807 and 1871. Dr. A. S. Todd, as chairman of a committee of the Medical Society 

 of West Virginia, published a list of the medicinal plants of West Virginia. This 

 list contains an enumeration of 9 trees, 7 shrubs, and GO herbs. 



1870. Mr. DissDebarr, State commissioner of immigration, in his Handbook of 

 West Virginia, compiled a list of the timber trees of the State, in which he enu- 

 merated ;V2 species and added 12 species of shrubs. 



187(5. Professor Fontaine in compiling his portion of the eentenninl volume upon 

 the Resources of West Virginia, listed more earefnlly the forest trees, shrubs, and 

 medicinal plants of the Slate, drawing the last from the publicatitm of Dr. Todd. 

 This work contains an enumeration of (>1) trees and 1<3 shrubs. 



1878. Profs. U. N. Mertz and G. Gutfenberg published a check li.st of the flora of 

 West Virginia, being an account of work done abmg the upper Ohio bottoms, and 

 in the mountains of the northeastern portion of the Stale, the latter while located 

 at Harpei's Ferry. This list enumerates f.lt trees, :57 shrnlis, and -IIM herbs. 



Miss Verona Mapel, preceptress of the high school atGleuville, Gilmer County, has 

 quite thoroughly worked over her immediate vicinity in connection with her school 

 duties. She reports I'i trees, 2;} shrubs, and 2'.»0 herbs. Her list does not include the 

 commoner weeds and herbs, nor the grasses or sedges. 



.Judge Frank A. Guthrie, of Point Pleasant, at the mouth of the Great Kan.iwha 

 Kiver, has carefully worked his vicinity, which includes the bottom lands of the 

 Oliio and Kanawha Kivers and the adjacent ridges. 



liEPORT OF Entomologist, A. I). Hopkins (pp. 145-180, plates 2). — 

 This includes notes on a nntnbiT of .species of farm and fjarden insects 

 and a preliininaiy re[)ort on investigations of foiost and sbade-tree 

 insects. 



Farm and (janhn insects (pp. 117-103). — Notes are given on the fol- 

 lowinj; insects, including accounts of life histoiy, olKservations by the 

 author, and statements regarding experiments with insecticides: 

 Striped Hea beetle {Phullotrcta rilfata), .sheep tick {Mclophagus oviniis), 

 plum curcnlio {Conotrnchelns nenuphar), codling moth [Carpocajyaa 

 pomoneUa), imported currant worm {yrmatus rrnfricosu.s), house t\y 

 [MuHca flomestica), Colorado potato beetle {Doryphora 10-Uncata), cur- 

 rant worm (Pristiphora grossularkv), \vh\te grub (Lachnosterna fusca), 

 wireworms, cabbage worm (J'itris rapa'), cabl'nge {)iofiea {Piojua rinio- 

 salis), apple tree tent caterpillar {CU.siocauipa antcricana)^ stock borer, 

 grain plant louse {Siphonopyhora avena'), peach tree borer {.Itgeria cxi- 

 tiosa), apple tree borer, liorn fly, and raspberry gouty gall beetle 

 {Agrtlus ruJicoUis). The account of the raspberry beetle is acc«>m- 

 panied by a plate containing nine original figures. Two ])arasites were 

 discovered by the author on the larva' of this insect, which were deter- 

 mined at this Department to be, respectively, a uew species of Bracon 

 and Charitopus niagnijicufi. 



