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Rh WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY L. syphilitica L. Great Blue Lobelia. Low, wet grounds. Randolph : near Elkins, and along the valley of Tygart's. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel). Fay ette : near Nuttallburg. Greenbrier : near White Sulphur Springs. Monongalia : near Morgantown. Summers : near Hinton. Jefferson : near Shepherdstown. Hardy : near Moorefield (Gamble). Preston: near Aurora (Л/г. & Mrs, Steele), forma albiflora Britton. With the species. Randolph : near Huttonsville, frequent. L. puberula Michx. Low grounds. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall) Monongalia: near Morgantown (Millspaugh) ; near Burnt House (Sheldon 4250). L. amoena Michx. var. glandulifera Gray. Swampy spots. Fayette : near Nuttallburg, alt. 2,000 ft., rare. (Nuttall). L. LEPTOSTACHYS A. DC. Sandy soil. Wood : near Leachtown. Summers : near Hinton. t L. spicaTA Lam. Sandy hillsides. Monongalia : near Ice's Ferry, and above Camp Eden. Upshur: near Buckhannon (Millspaugh, Pol lock). Var. PARvi flora Gray. Wet places. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel). L. inflata L. Indian Tobacco. Lobelia. Dry soils. Common throughout the State. Var. simplex (Raf.) Millsp. Prel. Cat. Fl. W. Va., 398. Dry places. Randolph : near Cricard P. O. Characters of the species, but simple stemmed. Having noted that this form perpetuated itself at one station in New York State, near Binghamton, for five years, I have decided that it is a true variety. Approaching the question from another point of view : I worked over a field near Morgantown this season, examining 783 small plants of L. inflata, many of which were not over four inches high, without finding a single simple-stemmed plant among them At the station above named, as well as that in New York, there was a goodly amount of the variety, with none of the species in the immediate neighborhood. SPECULARIA Heist. S. PERFOLiATA (L.) A. DC. Venus' Looking-glass. Dry soils. Monongalia: near Morgantown. Upshur: near Buckhannon. Gilmer: near Glenville (Mapel). Fay-