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Ae. octandra Marsh. Sweet Buckeye. (Ae. flava, Ait.). Rich mountain woods. Webster : Buffalo Bull Mountains, alt. 2,100 ft. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel). Lewis: near Weston (H. H. Smith 1751 ). Wood: near the mouth of the Little Kanawha (Michaux). Mercer: near Ingleside (Mitlspaugh 1468). Summers: near Hinton. Kanawha: near Charleston and Handler. Marion : near Worthington. An immense tree of this species, measuring twenty feet in cir cumference at the ground, twelve feet at the height of one's shoulder, 'and nearly if not quite one hundred feet high, stood by the bank of Dry Fork above Peeryville, McDowell County (Morris). Randolph: along Tygarts Valley River above Huttonsville (Greenman 196). Var. HYBRiDA (DC) Sarg. (var. purpurascens Cray) Woodlands. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Ae. PaviA L. Rich lands along streams. McDowell : along Tug Fork near Elkhorn. B A L S A M I N А C E AE. IMPATIENS L. I. aurea, Muhl. Pale Touch-me-not. (/. pallida, Nutt.). Rich soils near streamlets. Gilmer: near Glenville (Ma pel). Kanawha: near Charleston. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall) ; and common throughout the State. Also common in the deep, primitive forests along spring runs. Randolph: on Rich and Cheat Mountains. Grant: near Bay ard. Tucker: along the Blackwater Fork of Cheat (Millspaugh) ; vicinity of Parsons (Greenman 151). Hardy: near Moorefield (Gamble). Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). I. biflora Walt. Spotted Touch-me-not. (/. fuha Nutt.) Shady, moist places, more common than the preceding species and generally seeking lower altitudes (Millspaugh) Tucker: near Hendricks (Greenman 150). R H A M NACE AE. RHAMNUS L. R. LANCEOLATA Pursh. In moist soil. Hampshire : at Little Cacapon, rare (Brooks). R. ALNIFOLIA L'Her. In swampy places. Head of East Fork Greenbrier River (Brooks).