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The fig (Ficus caricti) and china-berry (Melia azedarach) also are 

 cultivated, but do not appear to reproduce themselves. An interest- 

 ing series of plants, evidently introduced to Church's Island by com- 

 mercial operations were discovered about the end of Waterlily wharf 

 and along the road leading from it. These included seaside knot- 

 weed, pepper-grass, self-heal, catnip, heliotrope, squash and sow 

 thistle. 



The two most prominent plant associations of Church's Island are 

 the marsh and the pine woods. The marshes are of two kinds, (1) 

 smaller spots on the Sound side of the island in which narrow-leaved 

 cat-tail is the dominant growth, and bulrush (Scirpus validus), Bac- 

 charis and Iva common, and (2) the marsh into which the whole in- 

 land side of the island merges where broad-leaved cat-tail, two species 

 of marshgrass (Spartina glabra and S. polystacliya) , a rush (J uncus 

 effusus var. solutus) and a bulrush (Scirpus rohustus) are most abun- 

 dant. 



In the pine woods, cucumber tree, sweet gum, persimmon and holly 

 are scattered here and there ; the most abundant herbs are two grasses : 

 Uniola laxa and Andropogon scoparius. About the middle of the 

 island is a grove of tall loblolly pines, which has been undisturbed 

 except for grazing in the nine years of its history cognizant to the 

 writer, and probably for a long time before. Aside from the marshes 

 this woods evidently is the nearest to virgin growth of any vegetation 

 on the island. In it were found a number of plants not seen else- 

 where, including partridge berry, two kinds of violet (V. triloba and 

 V. septemloba), jessamine, creeping cucumber, meadow-beauty 

 (Rhexia), pennywort (Oentella) and an aster (A. salicifoliusf). 



The writer's visits to Church's Island have embraced the following 

 periods: August 31 to September 9, and ISTovember 24 to December 

 15, 1909, and October 10-21, 1918. Collecting plants, except the 

 aquatics occupied only a small part of the whole time. This fact to- 

 gether with the unfavorable season for botanizing renders the follow- 

 ing list incomplete. ISTevertheless it is hoped that these notes will 

 have some value since they refer to a region for which no local flora 

 has been published. 



