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THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA LEPTILON Raf.

L. Canadense (L.) Britton. Butter-weed. Horse-weed. Waste places. Common throughout the State. DOELLINGERIA Nees. D. UMbellata (Mill.) Nees. (Aster Mill.) Moist thickets. Along Cheat River in Randolph, Tucker, Preston and Monongalia counties. Fayette : near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Preston : near Aurora (Air. & Mrs. Steele). D. infirma (Michx.) Greene. (Aster Michx.) Mountain woods. Randolph : Point Mountain, alt. 2,800 ft. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). IONACTIS Greene. I. LiNARiiFOLius (L.) Greene. (Aster L.) Rocky places. Fayette : near Nuttallburg, along the banks of New River below high water mark, common (Nuttall) ; New River Falls (Eggleston 5521). Barbour: near Tygart Junction (Greenman 223). GIFOLA Cass. G. Germanica (L.) Dumort. (Gnaphalium Germanicum L.) Along the road north of Athens, Mercer County, alt. 2,500 ft., July 18, 1900 (Morris 1034). ANTENNARIA Gaertn. A. plantaginiFOlia (L.) Richards. Everlasting. Sterile hills. Frequent or common throughout the State. A. Parlinii Fernald. Greenbrier: near White Sulphur Springs (Eggleston 4348). Monongalia: near Morgantown (SheIdon 299). A. PROPiNQUA Greene, Pittonia 4:83. (1899). Near A. arnoglossa but more slender and only half аз large, the stolons relatively more elongated and more co piously beset with black gland-tipped hairs, the bracts of the flowering branch often rather strongly ciliate with them : mature leaves one and a half to two inches long, with almost elliptic blade and short petiole, mucronately acute, bright green and nearly veinless above, white-tomentose and obvi ously triple-nerved beneath : flowering branches С in the male, which alone is known) three to six inches high, bearing 4 or 5 involucres, the terminal one sessile, the rest short-pedicel