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ТНК WEST VIRGINIA FLORA PLATANACEAE.

PLATANUS L. P. occiDENTALis L. Sycamore. Buttonwood. All soils. Wood : at the mouth of the Little Kanawha (Michaux). Common throughout the State. R О S А C E AE. OPULASTER Medic. (Physocarpa Raf. 1836.) O. oPULiFOLius (L.) Kuntze. Nine-bark (Physocarpa opulifolia Raf.). Along streams, common. Monongalia : along the Monongahela River. Webster : Upper Glade. Fayette : near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Hardy : near Moorefield. Upshur: near Buckhannon (Pollock). SPIRAEA L. S. coRYmbOSA Raf. Birch-leaved Meadow-sweet. (S. betulifolia Pall.). Rich mountain woods. Webster : near Upper Glade. Hardy: near Moorefield (Gamble). S. Virginiana Britt. West Virginia Meadow-sweet. Discovered 1890 along the Monongahela River near Morgantown. The following description is taken from Prof ßritton's account of the plant in "Bull. Torrey Club," Dec. 1890. "A glabrous shrub, the branches forming long wands, erect or reclining, 1-4 ft. long. Leaves oblong or slightly oblanceolate, thin, obtuse or short-pointed at the apex, round ed or cuneate at the base, 1y2 to 2 in. long, 5-8 lines wide, green above, pale beneath, entire or with a few low serration, in the upper half; petioles 2 lines long; pedicels and pedun cles pale and glaucous; flowers about 2-lines broad, in term inal compound corymbs 1-3 in. across; calyx teeth 5, tri angular, blunt, about the length of the short-campanulate tube, distinctly glaucous ; petals 5, white, ovate-orbicular, obtuse; stamens 15-20, persistent; styles 5-6; follicles in the specimens examined, 5-6. apparently sterile, included in the persistent calyx." "On damp rocks along the Monongahela River, Morgantown. West Virginia, collected by Dr. C. F. MHlspaugh in flower, June 20th, 1890, and in apparently imperfect fruit