WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 365 



L. SYPHILITICA L. Great Blue Lobelia. 



Low, wet grounds. Randolph : near Elkins, and along the 

 valley of Tygart's. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel). Fay- 

 ette : near Nuttallburg. Greenbrier : near White Sulphur 

 Springs. Monongalia : near Morgantown. Summers : near 

 Hinton. Jefferson : near Shepherdstown. Hardy : near 

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

 Steele), 

 forma albiflora Britton. 



With the species. Randolph : near Huttonsville, frequent. 

 L. PUBERULA Michx. 



Low grounds. Fayette : near Nuttallburg (Nuttall) 

 Monongalia: near Morgantown (Millspaugh) ; near Burnl 

 House (Sheldon 4250). 

 L. AMOENA Michx. var. glandulifera Gray. 



Swampy spots. Fayette : near Nuttallburg, alt. 2,000 ft., 

 rare. (Nuttall). 

 L. leptostachys a. DC. 



Sandy soil. Wood : near Leachtown. Summers : near 

 Hinton. 

 L. spicata Lam. 



Sandy hillsides. Monongalia : near Ice's Ferry, and above 

 Camp Eden. Upshur : near Buckhannon (Millspaugh, Pol- 

 lock). 

 Var. PARviFLORA Gray. 



Wet places. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel). 

 L. inflata L. Indian Tobacco. Lobelia. 



Dry soils. Common throughout the State. 

 Var. simplex (Raf.) Millsp. Prel. Cat. Fl. W. Va., 398. 



Dry places. Randolph : near Cricard P. O. Characters of 

 the species, but simple stemmed. 



Having noted that this form perpetuated itself at one 

 station in New York State, near Binghamton, for five years, 

 I have decided that it is a true variety. Approaching the 

 question from another point of view: I worked over a field 

 near Morgantown this season, examining 783 small plants of 

 L. inflata, many of which were not over four inches high, 

 without firtding a single simple-stemmed plant among them 

 At the station above named, as well as that in New York, 

 there was a goodly amount of the variety, with none of the 

 species in the immediate neighborhood. 



SPECULARIA Heist. 



S. perfoliata (L.) a. DC. Venus' Looking-glass. 



Dry soils. Monongalia: near Morgantown. Upshur: 

 near Buckhannon. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel). Fay- 



