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THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA CARDUACEAE. (Compositae.) VERNONIA Schreb.

V. giGantea (Walt.) Britton. Iron-weed. (V. altissima Nutt). Low grounds. A frequent weed throughout the northern, central and western portions of the State. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). V. maxima Small. Moist river bottom. Monongalia :near Morgantown (Millspaugh 677). V. maxima PUBESCENS Morris, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 15:25. (1901). ' In gross characters like the species. Reaching io° or over, more or less pubescent. Leaves thin, lanceolate, acuminate, the upper finely, the lower sharply doubly serrate, з'-12 long, У2-2У2 wide, finely pubescent below, somewhat so above; inflorenscence open, its branches rather erect, the peduncles bractcate for 2"-$" below the heads; the heads long-peduncled or the centre ones nearly sessile ; the bracts greenish purple, acute to short-acuminate, ciliate, erect ; corollas light to dark pink, not purple ; otherwise as in the species. Collected among plants of the species along Hound Creek, below Baileysville, Wyoming County, alt. 1,100-1,200 ft, August 20, 1900 (Morris, 1274). Type specimen is deposit ed in the U. S. National Herbarium. Through a misapprehension of the case the subspecies pubescens was referred (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 13:179, October 1900) to Vernonia gigantea of the Atlantic seaboard, which does not occur in the Alleghenies or westward. The species so common throughout the latter range is V. maxima Small (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 27:280. May, 1900). Hence the name of the subspecies collected near Baileysville, West Virginia, is Vernonia maxima pubescens. (Morris). V. Noveboracensis (L.) Willd. Iron weed. In meadows and pastures, common throughout the State Var. LATIFOLIA Gray. Meadows and fields. Mason : near Point Pleasant. Monon galia : near Morgantown. Favette : near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). ELEPHANTOPUS L. E. Carolinianus Willd. Dry banks. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall).