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PHRYMACEAE. 

 PHRYMA L. 



P. LEPTOSTACHYA L. Lop-seed. 



Rich open woods. Greenbrier : near White Sulphur 

 Springs. Fayette : near Kanawha Falls (James) ; near Nutt- 

 allburg (Nuttall). Kanawha: near Charleston. Mason: 

 near Point Pleasant. Webster: at Pugh (H. H. Smith 

 1653). Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele) ; and 

 frequent throughout the State. 



PLANTAGINACEAE. 

 PLANTAGO L. 



P. MAJOR L. Plantain. 



Waste ground. Ohio : near Wheeling (Mertz & Gutten- 

 berg). Fayette: Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Monongalia: Mor- 

 gantown. 

 P. RUGELII Decne. Common Plantain. 



Common throughout the State, near dwellings. 

 P. LANCEOLATA L. "Buck Plantain." "Ripple." "Buck-horn 

 Plantain." 



Becoming a common weed throughout the State; very- 

 little as yet however in Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan 

 counties. Greenbrier : near White Sulphur Springs. Fay- 

 ette : near Nuttallburg (Nnttall). Mercer: near Princeton. 

 P. VIRGINICA L. White Plantain. 



Sandy soils. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Mon- 

 ongalia : near Morgantown ; and frequent throughout the 

 State. Hardy: near Moorefield. 



P. ARISTATA Michx. 



Dry meadows near Bargers Spring, Summers County, alt. 

 1,500 ft., July 13, 1900 (Morris 983). Marion: near Farm- 

 ington (Boutlou). Monongalia: found, in 1912, near Mor- 

 gantown (Sheldon 4459). Wirt: near Newark (Hoff). 



R U B I A C E AE. 

 HOUSTONIA L. 



H. COERULEA L. Bluets. Innocents. 



Moist fields. Monongalia : Marion : Preston : Wood : 

 Wirt : Calhoun : Lewis : and Upshur. Gilmer : near Glen- 

 ville (Brozun; Mapel). Kanawha (James). Mineral: Jef- 



