2l6 THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA 



LOLIUM L. 

 L. ItalicujM a. Br. 



Common on lawns. Marion: at Fairmont (Boiitloii). Up- 

 shur : near French Creek ( F. E. Brooks) . 



L. PERENNE L. Darnel. Rye Grass. English Blue Grass. 



Lawns, introduced with "Lawn Grass Seed." Monon- 

 galia: at Morgantown. Fayette : near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 



ELYMUS L. 



E. ViRGiNicus L. Virginia Wild-rye. 



River banks. Ohio: near Wheeling (Merts & Gtittcnberg). 

 Mason : near Point Pleasant. Fayette : near Nuttallburg 

 (Nuttall). 



E. Canadensis, glaucifolius (Muhl.) Gray. 



Dry banks and roadsides. Kanawha : along 8-Mile Creek. 

 Mason : near Point Pleasant. Fayette : near Nuttallburg 

 (Nuttall). 



E. STRIATUS Willd. 



Rocky banks. Monongalia : along the Monongahela River 

 below Morgantown. 



Var. viLLosus Gray. 



Monongalia : banks of the Monongahela below Morgan- 

 town. 



E. HiRSUTiGLUMis Scribn. & Sm. 



River banks. Monongalia: near Morgantown (Sheldon). 



E. iNTERMEDius Scribn. & Smith. 



Tucker : banks of the Blackwater River near Hendricks ; 

 and Pocahontas : East Fork of the Greenbrier River near 

 Travelers Repose (Greenman, 56, 89). 



HYSTRIX Moench. (1794). 



(Asprella, Willd. 1809.) 



H. Hystrix (L.) Millsp. Bottle-rush Grass. 



Moist woodland banks. Scattering in Wood, Wirt, Cal- 

 houn, Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur, Monongalia, Randolph, Web- 

 ster and Nicholas counties. Fayette : along the Gauley River ; 

 near Gauley Mountains ; near Nuttallburg ; near Kanawha 

 Falls (James). Summers : near Hinton. Mason : near Point 

 Pleasant. Harrison : near Lumberport. 



