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Galium RUBIACEAE Houstonia 



1935 (P, T); dry sand, Savage Neck (No), R. R. Tatnall, 3382, 1 

 June 1937 (T, A); Kiptopeke, Fosberg, 14655, 19 April 1938 (P); 

 salt marsh, Chincoteague Island, Travis, 638, 21 July 1938 (P). 



Diodia L. Buttonweed. 

 D. virginiana L. 



Common; margins of fresh- water ponds, ditch banks, dune hol- 

 lows and borders of salt marshes, from Cape Charles northward to 

 Kent County, Del. Mid-July into Sept. 



Here near the northern limit of its range. 



^;r D. teres Walt. 



Common in sandy open ground, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain to 

 Worcester County; rare south of the Virginia boundary: border of 

 pine woods s. of Kendall Grove (No), Fernald, Long & Fogg, 5462, 

 13 Oct. 1935 (P). July to Sept. 



r \f. Var. hystricina Fern. & Grisc. (Rhodora 39, 306. 1937.) 



Dunes and beaches, Northampton County: Cape Charles 

 City, Canhy, Aug. 1894 (D); same, Fogg, 9736, 8 Sept. 1935 

 (P); Savage Neck, Fernald & Long, 5464, 11 Oct. 1935 (P, T, 

 U) ; west of Kiptopeke, Fernald, Long & Fogg, 5465, 5466, 5467, 

 14 Oct. 1935, TYPE (P, U). 



Mitchella L. Partridge Berry. 

 M. repens L. 



Common in dry, or sometimes low, woods, throughout our 

 range. Late May, June. 



Cephalanthus L. Buttonbush. 



C. occidentalis L. 



Common in swamps and along streams, Piedmont and Coastal 



Plain at least as far south as Wicomico County. July to mid-Aug. 



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 Houstonia L. Bluets. / ' 



H. caerulea L. Quaker Ladies. 



Common in meadows and pastures of the Piedmont, and along 

 the Fall Line; local on the Coastal Plain: salt meadow near Fen wick 

 Island (S), R. R. Tatnall, 3725, 18 May 1938 (T, P); J/^ mi. n. w. of 

 Berhn (Wo), Earle, 2016, 1 May 1939 (P); west of Greenbackville 

 (Wo), R. R. Tatnall, 4434, 27 April 1940 (T). Late April, May. 



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