WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 3! I 



"Two or three feet high, divergently branched, the 

 branches ascending. Leaves linear, elongated, 2-4-111. long, 

 i/^-4-lines wide, acute; flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 upper leaves or bracts, yellow ; sepals ovate-lanceolate acute, 

 narrower than those of L. alternifolia ; branches and both 

 sides of the leaves somewhat pubesent. Petals apparently 

 remaining on the plant longer than those of L. alternifolia ) 

 which, as Dr. Millspaugh observes, commonly fall away when 

 the plant is shocked." 



"Appearing very distinct from typical L. alternifolia, but 

 presumably but a variety of it. From the description it may 

 be the Rhe.via linearifolia, Poir ; in Lam. Encycl. vi. 2, said 

 to come from Carolina." 



CHAMAENERION Adans. 



C. ANGUSTIFOLIUM (L.) Scop. Fire-weed. (Epilobium spicatum 

 Lam.). 



In new clearings. Mineral : Grant : and Tucker : along the 

 W. Va. Cent. R. R. Randolph : summit of Point Mountain, 

 alt. 3,700 ft. Cheat Mountain, alt. 27-3,600 ft. ; near Pickens 

 (H. H. Smith 1396; 1454). Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & 

 Mrs. Steel e). Pendleton : on Spruce Knob (Greenman 173). 

 Hardy: near Moorefield (Gamble}. 



EPILOBIUM L. 



E. COLORATUM Muhl. Willow-herb. 



Ditches, and wet rocks. Greenbrier : near White Sulphur 

 Springs. Fayette : near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Preston: 

 near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). Mason: near Pt. Pleas- 

 ant ; and frequent throughout the State. 

 E. LINEARE Muhl. 



In swamps, Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). 

 Pocahontas : in Cranberry Glades (Sheldon 3848). 

 E. ADENOCAULON Haussk. 



Wet places. Randolph : in Blister Swamp near Gandy 

 Creek (Greenman 427). 



ONAGRA Adans. 



O. BIENNIS (L.) Scop. Evening Primrose. (Oenotherabiennis'L). 



Frequent or common, throughout the State. 

 Var. GRANDIFLORA (Ait.) Lindl. 



Frequent. Randolph : Cricard, P. O. ; Point Mountain 

 Wood : near Kanawha Station. Preston : near Tunnellton ; 

 near Terra Alta (Millspaugh) ; near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. 



