37° THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA 



CARDUACEAE. 

 (CompO'sitae.) 



VERNONIA Schreb. 



V. GiGANTEA (Walt.) Britton. Iron-weed. (V. altissima Nutt). 

 Low grounds. A frequent weed throughout the northern, 

 central and western portions of the State. Fayette: near 

 Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 



V. MAXIMA Small. 



Moist river bottom. Monongalia :near Morgantown (Mills- 

 paugh 677) . 

 V. MAXIMA PUBESCENS Morris, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 15:25. 

 (1901). 



In gross characters like the species. Reaching 10° or over, 

 more or less pubescent. Leaves thin, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 the upper finely, the lower sharply doubly serrate^ 3'- 12' long, 

 j4'-2j/2' wide, finely pubescent below, somewhat so above; in- 

 florenscence open, its branches rather erect, the peduncles 

 bracteat^ for 2"-^" below the heads; the heads long-peduncled 

 or the centre ones nearly sessile ; the bracts greenish purple, 

 acute to short-acuminate, ciliate, erect ; corollas light to dark 

 pink, not purple ; otherwise as in the species. 



Collected among plants of the species along Hound Creek, 

 below Baileysville, Wyoming County, alt. 1,100-1,200 ft, 

 August 20, 1900 (Morris, 1274). Type specimen is deposit- 

 ed in the U. S. National Herbarium. 



Through a misapprehension of the case the subspecies pub- 

 escens was referred (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 13 :I79, October 

 1900) to Vernonia gigantea of the Atlantic seaboard, which 

 does not occur in the Alleghenies or westward. The species 

 so common throughout the latter range is V. maxima SmaD 

 (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 27:280, May, 1900). Hence the name 

 of the subspecies collected near Baileysville, West Virginia, 

 is Venionia maxima pubescens. (Morris'). 

 V. NovEBORACENSis (L.) Willd. Iron weed. 



In meadows and pastures, common throughout the State- 

 Far. LATiFOLiA Gray. 



Meadows and fields. Mason : near Point Pleassnt. Monon- 

 galia : near Morgantown. Fayette : near Nuttallburg (Nut- 

 tall) . 



ELEPHANTOPUS L. 



E. Carolinianus Willd. 



Dry banks. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 



