WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 3OI 



AE. OCTANDRA Marsh. Sweet Buckeye. (Ae. ftava, Ait.). 



Rich mountain woods. Webster : Buffalo Bull Mountains, 

 alt. 2,100 ft. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel). Lewis: near 

 Weston (H. H. Smith 1751). Wood: near the mouth of the 

 Little Kanawha (Michaux). Mercer: near Ingleside (Mills- 

 paugh 1468). Summers: near Hinton. Kanawha: near 

 Charleston and Handley. Marion : near Worthington. An 

 immense tree of this species, measuring twenty feet in cir- 

 cumference at the ground, twelve feet at the height of one's 

 shoulder, and nearly if not quite one hundred feet high, 

 stood by the bank of Dry Fork above Peeryville, McDowell 

 County (Morris). Randolph: along Tygarts Valley River 

 above Huttonsville (Grcenman 196). 



Var. HYBRIDA (DC) Sarg. (var. purpurascens Gray) 



Woodlands. Fayette : near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 



AE. PAVIA L. 



Rich lands along streams. McDowell : along Tug Fork 

 near Elkhorn. 



BALSAMINACEAE. 



IMPATIENS L. 



I. AUREA, Muhl. Pale Touch-me-not. (/. pallida, Nutt.). 



Rich soils near streamlets. Gilmer : near Glenville (Ma- 

 pel) . Kanawha : near Charleston. Fayette : near Nuttall- 

 burg (Nuttall) ; and common throughout the State. Also 

 common in the deep, primitive forests along spring runs. 

 Randolph : on Rich and Cheat Mountains. Grant : near Bay- 

 ard. Tucker: along the Blackwater Fork of Cheat (Mills- 

 paugh) ; vicinity of Parsons (Greenman 151). Hardy:' near 

 Moorefield (Gamble). Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. 

 Steele). 



I. BIFLORA Walt. Spotted Touch-me-not. (/. fuha Nutt.) 



Shady, moist places, more common than the preceding 

 species and generally seeking lower altitudes (Millspaugh) 

 Tucker: near Hendricks (Greenman 150). 



RHAMNACE AE. 

 RHAMNUS L. 



R. LANCEOLATA Pursh. 



In moist soil. Hampshire: at Little Cacapon, rare 

 (Brooks). 

 R. ALNIFOLIA L'Her. 



In swampy places. Head of East Fork Greenbrier River 

 (Brooks). 



