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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



the achene. — Low sandy ground, near the coast, Georgia 

 and Florida, west to Mississippi. Spring to autumn. 



Specimens examined. — Georgia: Camp Cornelia, 

 Harper 1490, August 9, 1902 (M N). Florida: Apala- 

 chicola, Chapman, September, 1896 (B M N) ; no locality 

 given, Chapman, without date of collection, many collec- 

 tions (B M N); Miami, Garber, June, 1877 (M) ; Indian 

 Eiver, Palmer, 591, 1874 (M) ; Tampa, Ferguson, August, 



1898 (M); Palma Sola, Tracy 6980, May 14, 1900 

 (B M N); Polk County, Ohlinger 564, May ]5, 1894 

 (M) ; Suwanee County, Hitchcock, June-July, 1898 (M); 

 Jacksonville, Curtiss 4863, June 16, 1894 (B N), 4097, 

 June 17, 1893 (N), June, 1877 (N); Eustis, Nash 12, 

 March 12-31, 1894 (M N), 2081, June 16-30, 1895 

 (B N), Hitchcock, June and July, 1894 (M); Lake 

 Monroe, Garber, March, 1876 (M)j St. John's County, 

 J. D. Smith, March 4, 1882 (N) ; St. Augustine, Canby, 

 April, 1869 (M N) ; East Florida, Leavenworth, without 

 date of collection (M); no locality given, Chapman, with- 

 out date of collection, in part, the single slender plant 

 (M) ; no locality given, Hart Wright, without date of col- 

 lection (M). Alabama: Mobile, Mohr, July, year not 

 given (N), August, 1893 (M); Perdido, collector not 

 given, June 26, year not given (M). Mississippi: Biloxi, 

 Tracy 1526, July 12, 1891 (N), 1526, July 12, 1891, in 

 part, the slender plants with single spikelets (N), 1633, 

 July 15, 1891 (N), 1649, July 10, 1891 (N) ; Ocean 

 Springs, Tracy 1649, July 10, 1891 (N.), Skehan, 

 September 14, 1895 (M); Horn Island, Tracy 4813, 

 June 1, 1891 (M N); Bay St. Louis, Langlois 138, 

 September, 1883 (N). 



2. Fuirena longa Chapm. 



Fuirena longa Chapm. PI. S. U. S. 3 ed. 541. (1897). 



Kootstocks slender, elongated; stems 8 to 12 dm. tall, 

 erect, robust, resembling Dulichhim in appearance; leaves 



