VOL. XIII, PP. 171-182 OCTOBER 31, 1900 PROCEEDINGS or THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON SOME PLANTS OF WEST VIRGINIA. BY E. L. MORRIS. During July and August, 1900, in company with Messrs. Hay, Holt, Miller, Roller and Sterrett, of the United States Fish Commission, to whose aid he is indebted in no small de gree, the writer botanized a little in that part of West Virginia which is south of the Greenbrier, New and Kanawha Rivers and east of a northeast and southwest line bisecting the state lengthwise. This portion of West Virginia comprises Sum mers, Monroe, Mercer, McDowell, Wyoming and Raleigh Counties, given in the order of travel. The nature of these counties is very mountainous, though no very high altitudes are reached, the extremes of the points visited being 975 feet at laeger, McDowell County, and 3700 feet on East River Moun tain, between Mercer County, West Virginia, and Bland Coun ty, Virginia, while there are points reaching slightly over 4100 feet. Though the larger rivers trend in a westerly or north westerly direction there are no definite chains of mountains in these counties extending for more than a few miles, their ranges being abruptly cut off by river tributaries of all sizes. These small streams flow from all directions through such short and deep valleys that the whole country is choppy. The advantage to the botanist therefrom is the abundance of variety in the di-37-BioL. Soc. WASH. VOL. XIII, 1900. (171)
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