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Pme Barrens. — Toms River (McK), Whitings, Forked River, Pasadena, 

 Speedwell, Landisville (T), Batsto (S), Egg Harbor City, Twelfth St.. Fol- 

 som, Pancoast, Palermo, Middletown. 



Coast Strip. — Manahawkin, Barnegat City (L), Surf City (L), St. Albans 

 (L), Sherburn's (L). 



Cape May. — South Dennis, Court House, Cold Spring, Cape May. 



AMPHICARPON Rafinesque. 



Amphicarpon amphicarpon (Pursh.) Pursh's Millet Grass. 



PI. VHL, fig. I. 

 Milium amphicarpon Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. I. 62, pi. 2. 1814 [New Jersey, near 



Egg Harbor]. — Torrey Flora N. Y. 15. 1819.— Torrey Flora U. S. I. 77. 



1824. 

 Milium ciliatum Muhlenberg Gram. 77. 1817. 

 Amphicarpon Pnrsliii Knieskern 39. — Britton 279. — Keller and Brown 32. 



This curious grass, originally discovered by Frederick Pursh 

 "near Egg Harbor" (probably = Beesley's Point), does not 

 range north of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, nor has it been 

 found in the western part of the State beyond the limits of this 

 region. It is plentiful in damp sandy soil among the Pines, and 

 grows profusely in the damp sand thrown up into dykes around 

 the cranberry bogs. 



The peculiarity of this grass lies in the production of sub- 

 terranean fruits scattered among the slender roots, in addition to 

 the Panicum-like spike of normal seeds, which is conspicuous 

 above gTound. 



Fl. — Early August to mid-September. 



Pine Barrens. — Toms River (McK), Manchester (NB), Lakehurst, Brown's 

 Mills, Waretown, Five miles so. New Egypt, West Creek (S), Speedwell 

 (S), Winslow, Crowleytown, Egg Harbor City, Twelfth St. Folsoni. 



Cape Maj;.— Bennett, Cape May Pt. (OHB). 



SYNTHERISMA Walter. 



Key to the Species, 

 a. Rachis broadly winged. 



b. Plant glabrous. [S. linearis]* 



bb. Plant hirsute. [S. sanguinalis]^\ 



aa. Rachis not winged. S. Uliformis, p. 189 



* Small crab-grass, a weed about gardens, etc. 



t Large crab-grass, an abundant weed everywhere in cultivated and waste 

 ground. Grov/s luxuriantly on the sandy ground back of the coast dunes, 

 creeping culms reaching a length of six or eight feet; seems like a native 

 in such locations. 



