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into a rough, downwardly barbed or rarely smooth, awn; 

 perianth-bristles mostly much longer than the sepals and 

 achene, retrorsely rough-barbed; achenes triquetrous, 

 fully .8 mm. long, tipped by the hispid style, which 

 is as long as the achene, yellow-brown at maturity. — 

 Sandy shores, eastern and southern Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island and southern New York to the coasts of Virginia, 

 North Carolina, and Florida, being therefore a maritime 

 species : also in the interior about the Great Lakes. Sum- 

 mer and autumn. 



Specimens examined. — Massachusetts: Plymouth, 

 Oakes, 1842 (MN); Springfield, Maria L. Owen, 1890 

 (N). Rhode Island: Providence, Olney, without date 

 of collection (N); no locality given, Thurber, 1846 (M)« 

 New Jersey: Cape May, Parker 8598, August 20, 1869 



(M); no locality given, Eaton, 1860 (M); Bernhardi 



Herbarium (M). New York: Wading River, Long 

 Island, E. 8. Miller, September 26, 1875 (M); Long 

 Island, Hart Wright, without date of collection (M). 



Virginia: Virginia Beach f Heller 1232, August 22,1893 

 (MN), Kearney 2039, August 4, 1898 (N), 2067, 

 October 1, 1898 (N). Indiana: Dune Park, Agnes Chase 

 902, August 4, 1898 (M N). North Carolina: Wil- 

 mington, Coville 141, June 27, 1890, approaching F. 

 hispida in the thicker reddish sepals (N) ; no locality 

 given, Curtis, without date of collection, approaching 

 F. hispida in the thicker reddish sepals (M). South Ca- 

 rolina: No locality given, Havenel, 1872 (M), Elliott, 

 without date of collection (M). Florida: Lake City, 

 Rolfs 916, October 13, 1893, approaching F. hispida in 

 the thicker reddish sepals (M), Hitchcock, June-July, 

 1898, approaching F. hispida in the thicker reddish sepals 

 (M) ; Eustis, Hitchcock, June and July, 1894, in part, the 

 smaller plant, approaching F. hispida in the thicker red- 

 dish sepals (M), JSTash 910, June 1-15, 1894 (MN); 

 Aspalaga, Chapman, October, 1897, in part, the smaller 



