(50) Prof. A(lbert) S(pear) Hitchcock, Agrostologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, made small but discriminative collections, mostly of grasses, in the neighborhood of Morgantown, Monongalia County, in 1902, and Harpers Ferry, in Jefferson, in 1905. His plants are in the herbarium of the Department in Washington.
(51) F(red) E(rnest) Brooks, of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, traveled extensively throughout the State engaged in field work for the Bureau, from 1902 to 1912. During that work he collected such plants as appeared of particular interest. His plant collection is deposited in the herbaria of Prof. John L. Sheldon and the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station ; both at Morgantown.
(52) Kenneth K(ent) Mackenzie, Esqr., collected, from August 27th to September 9th, 1903, in Greenbrier County, in the vicinity of White Sulphur Springs and Kates Mountain. He secured 187 numbers of interesting plants, among which is his new genus in the parsley family (Pseudotaenidia). His prime set of plants is in his private herbarium and a full series of duplicates in that of the New York Botanical Garden.
(53) C(harles) L. Boynton, of the Biltmore Herbarium, collected, during the month of June, 1903, at Huntington, Kenova, Milton, St. Albans, Saltes, Charleston, Eastbank, Gauley Bridge, Thurmond, Hinton and White Sulphur Springs ; revisiting the latter place in October. In May and September 1904 he again collected in the neighborhood of White Sulphur Springs and Tuckahoe. His total gatherings amounted to 295 plant numbers, the prime set being deposited in the Biltmore Herbarium.
(54) Dr. A(lbert) LeRoy Andrews, while connected with the West Virginia University from 1903 to 1904. collected in many localities in Monongalia and Preston Counties. He specialized in the Bryophytes. His plants are principally in the herbaria of the Experiment Station at Morgantown and at Williams College, and in his private herbarium. (See his "Additions to the Bryophytic Flora of West Virginia", in "The Bryologist", Vol. 8 : 63-6.1 1905).
(55) John L(ewis) Sheldon, Professor of Botany and Bacteriology at the University of West Virginia, has made discriminative and specialized collections in the State, covering principally the counties of Monongalia, Preston, Greenbrier, Monroe, Pocahontas, Berkeley, Jefferson, Randolph, and all those along the Ohio River, from 1903 to 1912. His field work has added a large number of species to the previously known Flora ; these are indicated in the text of this work. Prof. Sheldon's prime set of 4454 numbers is deposited in his private herbarium at Morgantown, where it is freely utilized by his classes at the University. His collections consist largely of cryptogams. (See "The Bryologist," Vol. X:80-84; Vol. XIII :64-65 for his "Additional West Virginia Hepaticae." and "Species of Hepaticae Known to Occur in West Virginia.")
Dr. Sheldon has contributed to this Flora full lists of all
the fungi of his herbarium that have passed under the critical
examination of specialists in the various groups. He has also
