Aristida GRAMINEAE Cynodon 



A. dichotoma Mx. Poverty Grass. 



Common in dry open ground, including serpentine soil, Pied- 

 mont and Coastal Plain. Sept., early Oct. 



A. oligantha Mx. 



Common in dry open soil. Piedmont and Coastal Plain. Late 

 summer. 

 A. longespica Poir. {A. gracilis of Gray's Man., ed. 7.) 



Frequent in sandy soil. Piedmont and Coastal Plain. Sept., 

 Oct. 



A. lanosa Muhl. 



Dry sandy soil; infrequent in Sussex County; rare farther south: 

 pine woods n. w. of Oyster (No), Fernald, Long & Fogg, 5182, 14 

 Oct. 1935 (P); road bank 2 mi. s. w. of Sahsbury (Wi), R. R. 

 Tatnall, 4370, 11 Aug., 1939 (T, P); 3M mi. w. s. w. of Newark 

 (Wo), along Old Mill Branch, R. R. Tatnall, 4759, 13 Oct. 1940, 

 (T, G, A); near Sahsbury (Wi), A. V. Smith. 



A. purpurascens Poir. 



Frequent in dry sandy soil, chiefly on the Coastal Plain. Late 

 Aug. to mid-Oct. 



A. virgata Trin. 



Moist sandy soil, Sussex County, rare: dried-up swamps, 

 Georgetown (S), Commons, 26 Aug. 1897 (A); meadow-thicket H 

 mi. east of Ellendale (S), R. R. Tatnall, 4409, 13 Oct. 1939 (T); 

 same locahty, R. R. Tatnall, 4742, 12 Oct. 1940 (T, A). 



Chlorideae 



Diplachne Beauv. 



• D. maritima Bicknell. {Leptochloa fascicularis (Lam.) Gray.) 

 Infrequent; brackish meadows near the coast. Aug., Sept. 



Eleusine Gaertn. 



E. indica (L.) Gaertn. Goose Grass. 



Common weed of gardens and waste ground. Nat. from the 



Old World. 



Cynodon Richard. 



C. Dactylon (L.) Pers. Bermuda Grass. 



Common weed in fields and open waste places, throughout. 



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