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Rh WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MYRICACEAE. COMPTONIA Banks. C. peregrina (L.) Coulter. (Myrica asplenifolia L.). Dry soil, especially on hillsides. Hampshire : along Cacapon Creek (Brooks). BETULACEAE. CARPINUS L. C. Caroliniana, Walt. Blue or Water Beech. Damp thickets and river banks. Wirt : near Elizabeth. Monongalia : near Morgantown, plentiful. Gilmer : near Glenville (Mapel). Upshur: near Buckhannon (Pollock). Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Summers: near Hinton. Marion: near Worthington. Jefferson: near Harper's Ferry (Mertz & Guttenberg). Webster: Hacker Valley (H. H. Smith, 1 531). . OSTRYA Scop. O. Virginiana (Mill.) Willd. Lever Wood. Iron Wood. Rich woods and along streams. Wirt : near Elizabeth. Randolph : on Point Mountain ; at first Top of Cheat there is a forest of this wood where trees are found, in numbers, from 1-3 feet in diameter. Webster: on Buffalo Bull Moun tain. Greenbrier : near White Sulphur Springs. Summers : near Hinton. Marion: near Worthington. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). CORYLUS L. C. Americana, Walt. Hazlenut. Thickets, frequent throughout, the State. C. rostrata Ait. Beaked Hazlenut. Mountainous regions. Upshur : summit on Staunton Pike Randolph : near Fords. BETULA L. B. lenta L. Sweet Birch. Black Birch. Rich Woods. Common throughout the State. Grows very large in the mountains. One specimen near Cheat Bridge measure 7 ft. 9 in. in diameter. Preston: near Au rora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). B. lenta X lutea. Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 1:201 (1896). A number of specimens of this hybrid birch were found in 1892 at Pickens, Randolph Co. In all, the bark forms of each species were intermixed. All the specimens were small saplings about 2 in. in diameter (Millspaugh).