378 ' THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA 



LEPTILON Raf. 



L. Canadense (L.) Britton. Butter-weed. Horse-weed. 

 Waste places. Common throughout the State. 



DOELLINGERIA Nees. 



D. UMBELLATA (Mill.) Nees. (Aster Mill.) 



Moist thickets. Along Cheat River in Randolph, Tucker, 



Preston and Monongalia counties. Fayette : near Nuttall- 



burg (Nuttall). Preston : near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). 



D. INFIRMA '(Michx.) Greene. (Aster Michx.) 



Mountain woods. Randolph : Point Mountain, alt. 2,800 



ft. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 



lONACTIS Greene. 



I. LiNARiiFOLius (L.) Greene. (Aster L.) 



Rocky places. Fayette : near Nuttallburg, along the banks 



of New River below high water mark, common (Nuttall) ; 



New River Falls (Eggleston 5521). Barbour: near Tygart 



Junction (Greenman 223). 



GIFOLA Gass. 



G. Germanica (L.) Dumort. (Gnaphalium G ermanicum- L.) 

 Along the road north of Athens, Mercer County, alt. 2,500 

 ft., July 18, 1900 (Morris 1034). 



ANTENNARIA Gaertn. 



A. plantaginifolia (L.) Richards. Everlasting. 



Sterile hills. Frequent or common throughout the State. 



A. Parlinii Fernald. 



Greenbrier: near White Sulphur Springs (Eggleston 

 4348). Monongalia: near Morgantown (Sheldon 2gg) . 



A. propinqua Greene, Pittonia 4:83. (1899). 



Near A. arnoglossa but more slender and only half a= 

 large, the stolons relatively more elongated and more co- 

 piously beset with black gland-tipped hairs, the bracts of the 

 flowering branch often rather strongly ciliate with them : 

 mature leaves one and a half to two inches long, with almost 

 elliptic blade and short petiole, mucronately acute, bright 

 green and nearly veinless above, white-tomentose and obvi- 

 ously triple-nerved beneath : flovvering branches fin the male, 

 which alone is known) three to six inches high, bearing 4 or 

 5 involucres, the terminal one sessile, the rest short-pedicel- 



