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K. LINEARIS (Michx.) Spach. (Oenothera linearis Michx.). 



Damp places. Wood : near Kanawha Station. Wirt : near 

 Elizabeth. Calhoun : near Grantsville. Gilmer : near Glen- 

 ville (Map el). Upshur : near Buckhannon. 



K. LONGIPEDICELLATA Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 23:178. (1896). 

 Annual, slender, bright green, more or less puberulent. 

 Stem erect or assurgent, 4-7dm. tall, red, slender, simple or 

 sparingly branched above; basal leaves spatulate or obovate- 

 spatulate, 4-cm. long; stem leaves few, linear-lanceolate, 

 3-9cm. long, obtuse or acutish, entire, often somewhat undu- 

 late, narrowed into a short petiole ; flowers yellow, subtended 

 by leaf-like bracts in terminal racemes which are sometimes 

 corymbosely arranged; caylx hirsute, its tube slender, 1-1.5 

 cm. long, its segments linear, longer than the tube, the tips 

 free in the bud; petals obovate, 2cm. long, many-nerved, 

 emarginate, stamens less than one-half as long as the petals ; 

 styles slender, two-thirds as long as the petals ; capsule 

 narrowly obovoid, icm. long, its angles winged, its faces 

 ridged, on pedicels longer than the body; seeds irregularly 

 oblong, .8mm. long, brown, minutely papillose. 



Between K. subglobosa and K. linearis. It differs from 

 the former in its sparsely leafy, usually nearly simple stem, 

 the hirsute calyx, the larger flowers and the narrowly ob- 

 ovoid capsules. It can easily be separated from K. linearis by 

 its pedicel, which exceeds the body of the capsule. 



Moist places. Webster : at Long Glade (Millspaugh 579, 

 July 1890). 



GAURA L. 



G. BIENNIS, L. 



Dry banks. Webster: near Taylor. Greenbrier: near 

 White Sulphur Springs. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nutt- 

 all). Harrison: near Lumberport. Berkeley: near Martins- 

 burg. Hardy: near Moorefield (Gamble). 



CIRCAEA L. 



C. LUTETIANA L. Enchanter's Nightshade. 



Low grounds, and wet woods. Lewis : up Stone Coal 

 Creek. Gilmer: near Glenville (Brown). Fayette: near 

 Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Webster: on Tater Knob (H. H. 

 Smith 1478). Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). 



C. ALPINA L. 



Deep, rich woods. Randolph, Grant, Tucker and Pendle- 

 ton : prevalent in the Alleghanies. Gilmer : near Glenville 

 (Map el). Monongalia: along Cheat River, above Camp 

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



