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near Gauley Bridge. Gilmer: near Glenville {Prof. Brozvn). 

 Kanawha : near Pocotaligo. Jackson : near Sandy ville. Jef- 

 ferson : near Harpers Ferry. Mason : near Point Pleasant. 

 Harrison : near Shinnston. Summers : near Hinton. Monon- 

 galia : near Morgantown. Hardy: near Moorefield {Gam- 

 hie). 



C. Medsgeri Shafer. 



Dry gravelly situations. Ohio: near Wheeling {Gutten- 

 berg). 



C. Chamaechrista L. Partridge Pea. 



Sandy fields. Monongalia : near the mouth of Cheat 

 River. Marion : near Opekiska. Fayette : near Nuttallburg 

 {Nut tall) . 



C. NicTiTANS L. Wild Sensitive Plant. 



Sandy places. Monongalia : along the Monongahela River. 

 Marion : near Clements. Fayette : near Nuttallburg {Nutc- 

 all) ; near Hawks Nest {Holton). Barbour: near Tygart 

 Junction {Greenman, i8i). Mason: near Point Pleasant. 

 Summers: near Hinton. Hardy: near Moorefield {Gamble). 



C. NICTITANS COMMIXTA ( Poll. & Max.) comb. nov. 



Chamaecrista nictitans commixta Pollard & Maxon, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash., 14:163 (1901). 



Plant of low stature, very densely and divaricately branch- 

 ing, the stems finely pubescent or puberulent : leaves resem- 

 bling those of nictitans but often with more numerous leaf- 

 lets; petiolar gland cupulate or truncate, usually nearly ses- 

 sile ; flowers and fruits as in C. nictitans. 



Collected by Charles L. Pollard and William R. Maxon in 

 alluvial soil along New River at Quinnimont, Fayette County, 

 August 21, 1899. Their No. 31, the type, is in the National 

 Herbarium as No. 357,069. 



GLEDITSIA L. 

 G. triacanthos L. Honey or Black Locust. 



Rich woods. Monongalia : near Morgantown. Wirt : on 

 Nigh-Cut Hill. Randolph: Rich Mts.;" Point Mt., alt. 23- 

 3,700 ft. Gilmer: near Glenville. Hardy: near Moorefield. 



GYMNOCLADUS Lam. 



G. DioiCA (L.) Koch. Kentucky Coffee-tree. {G. Canadensis, 

 Lam.). 



Rich woods, infrequent. Randolph : Point Mountain, be- 

 yond Valley Bend. Webster : Buffalo Bull Mountain, along 

 ridge. 



