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general southerly direction, is the Gloucester Branch of the Atlantic 
City Railroad. During a number of trips back and forth over this 
line there was ample opportunity, while the train stopped at the 
numerous stations, to make car-window observations for E. peregrina. 
This is a single track road and at many of the stations there are small 
sidings for the accommodation of freight cars. Several localities were 
mentally recorded with confidence and one was properly verified by 
collection — at Blenheim. Here it was noted as very common about 
the station, being equally well distributed over the cinder ballast of 
both the main track and the siding. 
Along the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad (of the Pennsylvania 
system) the plant was detected once on the Atlantic City Division 
and twice on the more southerly line of the Cape May Division.— 
A few miles below Haddonfield, at Ashland, the species was collected 
on the siding by the railroad station. The ballast here is very fine, 
hard, and compact. Very few species have been able to obtain a 
foothold but plants of E. peregrina, though all small, were frequent. 
In passing Woodbury by train numerous colonies of an Eragrostis 
with the habit of E. peregrina were observed on several occasions in 
the railroad yards south of the Pennsylvania station. Investigation 
at a later date verified the occurrence here of the species. It was seen 
to be widely distributed over the railroad ballast, being most abundant 
on the sidings, in weedy spots, and about piles of débris. Along 
adjacent streets it has become a conspicuous weed in the gutters and 
on the borders of the sidewalks. At Sewell (several miles beyond 
Woodbury) it was noted in an interesting habitat. Although occur- 
ring sparingly on the driveway up. to the station, it was found most 
frequent about the railroad station hydrant, chiefly on the well- 
- trodden area where one stands to drink. 
On the Salem Branch of the Pennsylvania, Railroad lies Mickleton 
where E. peregrina was collected by Benjamin Heritage in 1887. 
Speculation on its possible persistence induced a search at this locality 
on one of the last trips of the season. By this time its favorite habitat 
had become so well known that the freight siding by the railroad 
station was at once sought and almost immediately revealed the 
presence of the plant. Although the scrutiny of the tracks was not 
overthorough, the species appeared to be rather infrequent, at least 
in this exact spot. On this Branch two new localities were noted — 
Swedesboro and Harrisonville. Swedesboro is one of the more impor- 
