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K. linearis (Michx.) Spach. (Oenothera linearis Michx.). Damp places. Wood: near Kanawha Station. Wirt: near Elizabeth. Calhoun : near Grantsville. Gilmer : near Glenville (Mapel). Upshur : near Buckhannon. K. longii'Edicellata Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 23:178. (1896). Annual, slender, bright green, more or less puberulent. Stem erect or assurgent, 4-7dm. tall, red, slender, simple or sparingly branched above; basal leaves spatulate or obovatespatulate, 4-cm. long; stem leaves few, linear-lanceolate, 3-gcm. long, obtuse or acutish, entire, often somewhat undu late, narrowed into a short petiole ; flowers yellow, subtended by leaf-like bracts in terminal racemes which are sometime.-, corymbosely arranged; caylx hirsute, its tube slender, 1-1.5 cm. long, its segments linear, longer than the tube, the tips free in the bud ; petals obovate, 2cm. long, many-nerved, emarginate, stamens less than one-half as long as the petals ; styles slender, two-thirds as long as the petals ; capsule narrowly obovoid, icm. long, its angles winged, its faces ridged, on pedicels longer than the body; seeds irregularly oblong, .8mm. long, brown, minutely papillose. Between K. subglobosa and K. linearis. It differs from the former in its sparsely leafy, usually nearly simple stem, the hirsute calyx, the larger flowers and the narrowly ob ovoid capsules. It can easily be separated from K. linearis by its pedicel, which exceeds the body of the capsule. Moist places. Webster: at Long Glade (Millspaugh 579, July 1890). GAURA L. G. BIENNIS, L. Dry banks. Webster: near Taylor. Greenbrier: near White Sulphur Springs. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Harrison : near Lumberport. Berkeley: near Martinsburg. Hardy: near Moorefield (Gamble). CIRCAEA L. C. Lutetiana L. Enchanter's Nightshade. Low grounds, and wet woods. Lewis : up Stone Coal Creek. Gilmer: near Glenville (Bronv1). Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Webster: on Tater Knob (H. H. Smith 1478). Preston: near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele). C. alpina L. Deep, rich woods. Randolph, Grant, Tucker and Pendle ton : prevalent in the Alleghanies. Gilmer : near Glenville (Mapel). Monongalia: along Cheat River, above Camp Eden. Preston : near Aurora (Mr. & Mrs. Steele).