WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 245 



ARISTOLOCHIA L. 



A. SERPENTARIA L. Virginia Snakeroot. 



Rich woods. Wirt : near Burning Springs. Randolph : 

 near Ford's and on Point Mountain. Gilmer : near Glen- 

 ville (Brown). Grant: near Bayard. Tucker: near Davis. 

 Mineral: near Keyser (Wortman). Fayette : near Nuttall- 

 burg (Nuttall). Wetzel : near Burton (Mertz, 2328). 



A. MACROPHYLLA Lam. Dutchman's Pipe. (A. Sipho L' Her.). 

 Rich woods, frequent throughout the State. Abundant 

 in the following localities. Randolph : on Point Mountain 

 (Millspaugh). Webster: Hacker Valley (H. H. Smith, 

 1705). Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). Up- 

 shur : near Buckhannon (Pollock). Pocahontas : valley of 

 the East Fork of Greenbrier River (Greenman, 204). Grant : 

 near Bayard. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel, Brown). Fay- 

 ette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Mercer: Ingleside. Wirt: 

 near Burning Springs (Mertz, 2329). 



POLYGONACEAE. 



ERIOGONUM Michx. 



E. ALLENI, Watson, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 734 (1890). 



Perennial, white tomentose throughout, the tall scape-like 

 stem repeatedly dichotomous above ; radical leaves lanceolate, 

 long-petiolate, the upper in whorls of 4 or 5, ovate to ovate- 

 oblong, very shortly petiolate, much reduced above; invo- 

 lucres mostly sessile; flowers glabrous, yellow, the segments 

 elliptical. Near White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier Co. 

 (Allen, Britton, Small, Mackenzie). 



RUMEX L. 

 R. BRITTANICA L. Water Dock. 



'Wet places. Ohio: on Bogg's Island (Meris & Gutten" 

 berg). Berkeley, near Martinsburg. 

 R. CRISPUS L. Curled Dock. 



Waste places and cultivated fields. Frequent. 

 R. OBTUSIFOLIUS L. Bitter Dock. 



Waste grounds and cultivated fields, common. 

 R. CRISPUS x OBTUSIFOLIUS. Millsp. Prel. Cat. Fl. W. Va., 433. 



Waste places. Monongalia : streets of Morgantown. 

 R. SANGUINEUS L. Bloody Dock. 



Damp places in waste grounds. Berkeley: near Martins- 

 burg. 



R. CONGLOMERATES Murray. 



Shady places. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 



