ES ee Ee ee a 
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OF GEORGIA DURING THE SEASON OF I902 17 
at Fort Gaines, and just above Georgetown, where I collected it 
on overhanging Cretaceous rocks on October 16 (no. 1756). 
ERAGROSTIS AMABILIS (L.) Wight & Arn. ; Hook. 
& Arn. Bot. Beechey, 251. 1841 
In the BuLLETIN for July, 1902, Scribner and Merrill have re- 
ported the occurrence of this Asiatic ornamental grass in Middle 
Florida. In September I found it quite common as a weed along 
moist roadsides and railroad ditches in the vicinity of Quitman 
(no. 1676) and Moultrie. There is nothing in its mode of occur- 
rence to suggest its having escaped from cultivation (if indeed it 
has ever been cultivated in that part of the country) and it seems 
to be thoroughly naturalized. 
ERAGROSTIS SIMPLEX Scribn. Bull. Div. Agrost. U. S. 
Dept. Agric. No. 7, ed. 3, 250. 1900 
‘‘ F. Brownet Nees’”’ of Chapman and several other authors. 
A weed of unknown origin which is common along most rail- 
roads in South Georgia, especially in the pine-barren region. 
Collected in Colquitt County, September 22 (zo. 17656). Previ- 
ously reported only from Florida. 
FIMBRISTYLIS PERPUSILLA Harper; Small, Fl. S. E. 
States, 188. 1903 
Although this species has already been described, it has several 
peculiarities which could not be mentioned in the limited space of 
the original description. 
The plant was collected (in flower) on the muddy bottom of a 
dried-up pine-barren pond near Leslie, Sumter County, on the 
morning of October 9 (zo. 1729). It was very abundant, but 
so small as to be scarcely visible to a person standing up. Its 
only associates visible to the naked eye were two bryophytes, 
Riccia Sullivantii and Ephemerum tenerum, the latter almost 
microscopic. The vegetative period of the /zmdéristys must be 
very brief and irregular, for the pond in which it grows cannot be 
expected to dry up at the same time every year, and there may 
be years in which it does not dry up at all.* In this respect our 
* On July 13, 1903, I revisited the type-locality and found it covered by about three 
feet of water. No trace of the Fimbristylis could be found in several handfuls of mud 
taken from the bottom. 
