(13) E. Richardson collected in Ohio County in the vicinity of Wheeling, in 1877 and 1879 ; and the neighborhood of Bethany, Brooke County, in 1878. The extent of his collections is not known to me at this writing. His plants are deposited in the U. S. National Herbarium, Washington, D. C.
(14) Mertz & Guttenberg. Profs. H. N. Mertz and Gustav Guttenberg, of Wheeling and Pittsburg, collected extensively from 1877 to 1888 through all the northern counties of the State from Wheeling to Harpers Ferry. They published, in 1878, "A Check List of the Plants of West Virginia" in which they enumerated 590 species. Their collections are deposited in the herbarium of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg.
(15) Mertz & Jones. Prof. H. N. Mertz and Miss Hattie Jones made a comprehensive collection of the plants of Cranberry Summit, Preston County, in 1878. Their specimens are preserved in the herbarium of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg.
(16) Prof. Cha(rle)s R(eid) Barnes, late professor of Physiological Botany, University of Chicago, spent a short time, in June. 1879, collecting along the Kanawha River from Charleston to Gauley Bridge, principally in the neighborhood of Charleston. His collections are in the Herbarium of Wabash College. (See his "Notes from West Virginia" in Botanical Gazette Vol. 4:181-2, 1879).
(17) Prof. John M(erle) Coulter, Professor of Botany, University of Chicago, conducted, while Professor of Biology at Wabash College. Indiana, an excursion of his class in Geology, to the mining regions of southern West Virginia, in 1879. On this trip he collected a few interesting plants from Charleston, Kanawha County, to Gauley Bridge, Fayette County. His specimens are deposited in the herbarium of Wabash College.
(18) Captain John Donnell-Smith spent his summers, from 1879 to 1882, at Oakland, Md., from whence he made occasional short trips to various points in West Virginia, especially those reached by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. During these excursions he collected such plants as appeared to be of special interest, particularly at Tygarts Valley, Mannington and Grafton. His plants are in his private herbarium now deposited in the U. S. National Herbarium, Washington, D. C.
(19) C(yrus) G(uernsey) Pringle, the noted botanical collector, late of Charlotte. Vt., made a small but interesting collection at White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier County, and in the neighborhood of Ronceverte, in Fayette County, in 1880. The exact number of his specimens is not known to me at this writing; they are deposited in his private herbarium now at the University of Vermont.
(20) Porter & Redfield. Prof. Tho(ma)s C(onrad) Porter and Mr. J(ohn) H(oward) Redfield collected from White Sulphur Springs. Greenbrier County, to Hawks Nest, Fayette County, in 1880. The numerical strength of their separate collections I have not been able to determine. Prof. Porter's plants are in the herbarium of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. ; those of Mr.
