Jan. 1896. Flora oi' W. Virginia — Millspauoh & Nuttall. 71 



in manuscript forty-two trees, twenty-three shrubs and two hundred 

 ninety herbs. Her list includes neither the commoner weeds and 

 herbs, nor the grasses and sedges. 



In i8go, '91 and '92, the present authors began a systematic sur- 

 vey of the State, publishing the results of their work in 1892 under 

 the title of '' A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of West Virginia." 

 This catalogue included all known previous work and enumerated 

 1,645 species, giving localities, numerous critical notes, and descrip- 

 tions and plates of several new forms. 



In 1892, Mr. John K. Small and Miss Anna Murray Vail spent 

 some time in Greenbrier County, exploring the vicinity of White Sul- 

 phur Springs. The results of their work are included in their 

 "Report of the Botanical Exploration of Southwestern Virginia," 

 published as one of the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



From 1892 to the present, the authors have continued their in- 

 vestigation of the flora, adding the knowledge of over one thousand 

 species to their preliminary list, and detecting many new localities for 

 previously published species. This additional work forms the basis 

 of the present publication. The small edition of the preliminary- 

 catalogue having been exhausted within a few months of its issue, 

 and many institutions, libraries and personal workers being unable 

 to secure copies of the work, it has been deemed expedient to include 

 here all the sjsecies of that publication, without, however, repeating 

 the body matter. These repeated species appear in small capitals, 

 additional species new to the flora in black-faced type. As in the 

 preliminary catalogue, all species that have been described from know n 

 West Virginia types are republished in full. 



special features of the flora. 



The distribution of plants within the boundaries of the State is 

 wonderfully comprehensive. Canada places representatives of her 

 boreal flora upon its Alleghanian mountain tops, some that have even 

 passed by the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Del- 

 aware and Maryland in the transit; the Southern States contribute to 

 its flora through the influence of the mysterious New River on the 

 southeast; the great trunk lines of railway, as well as the open condi- 

 tion of the western border line along the Ohio River, give entrance to 

 individuals of a migratory character from the Western Plains; and 

 from some not readily accountable reason, Eastern forms, and even 

 coast line species stray within its limits. 



Of the noteworthy species we connect in Anemone trifolia, L. , 

 Canby's and Curtiss' Virginian stations with Knipe's Pennsylvanian, 

 and that in a direct and sequential manner through the State. Our 



