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Lygodluin polmatum, Swartz. (Climbing Ferxn.) 



Found in Holly Shelter swamp, 1879. by Maj. W. L. Young. 



Osinunda rej^alis, L, (Flowering Fern.) 



ciiniainonea, L. 



Botrychium Innarioides, Swartz. 



LYCOPODIACE.F:. (CLUBMOSS FAMILY.) 



Lycopodiiini alopeciiroides, L. 



Caroliuianiim,.L. 

 Selag-inella rupestris, Spreng. 



HYDROPTERIDES. (WATER FERN FAMILY.) 



Azolla Caroliniana, Willd. 



NOTES OF THE BALLAST PLANTS. 



BY GERALD MCCARTHY. 



Ranniicnlns philonotis is from southern Eiurope. Also found at Philadel- 

 phia by Mr. Martindale. 



Scllizandra COCCinea is West Indian and Mexican, new to this country. 



Scolymus HispanicuS is West Indian — new. 



Tribulus terrestris is West Indian and also occurs in Southern Russia. Ad- 

 ventive at Philadelphia. Martindale. 



Erodium cicntariiim is European — new. 



Liliaria spuria is European — new 



Heliotropilim tnropaJUm is European — new. Adventive in many places. 



Datura mercifolium is West Indian and Mexican — new to this country. 



Boerhaavia viscosa is West Indian and Mexican — new to this country. 



Alternantliera achyrantha is West Indian and Mexican — new to this coun- 

 try. This plant is not a ballast plant but was found by me along 

 the W. C. & A. R. R. in Columbus county, near Whiteville. 



Euphorbia Cyparissias is European — new to this country. 



Cyperus distaus is an indigenous plant, but extremely interesting, having been 



found before by but one collector, Fred. K. Pursh. 

 Cyperus papyrus is the Egyptian paper reed, came probably from Sicily, 



where it grows abundantly. 

 Pailicum COlonum is European, and new to this country. 

 Cenclli'US myosuroides is West Indian and Mexican, and new to this country, 



except the southern extremity of Florida. 

 LapagO racemosa is West Indian and Mexican, new to this country. 



