368 THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA 



CREPIS Linn. 



C. CAPiLLARis (L.) Wallr. 



Established near -iMorgantown, Monongalia County, 1808 

 (Sheldon 3317). 



HIERACIUM L. 



H. Canadense Michx. Hawkweed. 



Dry woods. Webster : near Upper Glade. 



H. PANICULATUM L. 



Moist grounds. Preston : near Cranberry Summit (Alerts 

 & Guttenbcrg) ; near Aurora {Mr. & Mrs. Steele). Fayette : 

 near Nuttallburg {Nuttall). 

 H. VENOSUM L. Rattlesnake-weed. 



Openings, and edges of dry woods. Frequent throughout 

 the State. 

 H. scABRUM Michx. 



Dry open woods. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 

 Monongalia : along Decker's Creek. Preston : near Terra 

 Alta (Millspaugh) ; near Aurora (Mr. &• Mrs. Steele). 

 H. Alleghaniense Britton. Manual 2nd edit. 905. (1905). 



Stem rough-hairy below, glabrous or nearly so above, 

 about 6.5dm. tall. Lower and middle stem-lea^'es oblanceo- 

 late, i-i.5dm. long, 3cm. wide or more, obtuse, cuspidate, 

 tapering into narrowly margined pubescent petioles, thin, 

 pale and pubescent along the midvein beneath, green above, 

 with a few very distant minute glandular teeth ; upper leaves 

 oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, narrowed to a sessile 

 base; inflorescense paniculate, its branches filiform, glandu- 

 lar ; heads rather numerous : involucre about 7nim. high, its 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, sparingly glandular, a little shorter 

 than the brown pappus : young achenes truncate. 



Preston : in the Alleghany Mountains near Aurora, August 

 29, 1898 (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). 

 H. Gronovii L. 



Dry soils. Fayette : near Nuttallburg, alt. 2,000 ft. (Nutt- 

 all) . Upshur : summit on Staunton Pike. 

 H. LONGiPiLUM Torr. 



Dry situations. Monongalia : Decker's Creek, near Mor- 

 gantown. Fayette : near Kanawha Falls, and Hawk's Nest 

 (James). 



NABALUS Cass. 



N. ALTissiMus (L.) Hook. (Prcnanthes L.) 



Rich moist woods. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall)- 

 Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). 



