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the summer months, we might easily become the weed-paradise 

 of the world, and a convincing example of the results of unre- 

 stricted immigration ! 



THE FLORA OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD, LONG 

 ISLAND AND GARDINER'S lELAND 



Bv Steward H. Burn ham and Roy A. Latham 

 (Continued from January-Febniary Torreya) 



SPERMATOPHYTA 



Picea rnbens Sarg. — On Gid's Island, July 24, 1920 (Dr. C. S. Gager, N. Tay- 

 lor & R. Latham). This island does not cover over three acres and is 

 entirely surrounded by salt marshes. Two of the four trees are dead and 

 the other two more than half dead : but there are four little seedlings ten 

 to twenty inches high. Mr. Taylor remarks that these are evidently the 

 last remains of what was once a spruce forest covering the whole island 

 and that they are putting up a losing fight. 



Finns Strobus L. — A colony of nearly 300 trees in a swamp at Greenport ; 

 some of the trees actually growing where their roots are submerged a por- 

 tion of the year. November 1918. Mr. Price, an elderly gentleman, who 

 owns the swamp, says his father told him that they were a true native here. 

 Some of the trees are probably 100 years old. There are eleven trees in 

 dry woods at Southold which may be native. During August 1920 several 

 hundred trees were seen in dry wood-lands at Bay View. 



Sparganiuin androcladon (Engelm.) Morong — Wet place, Gardiner's Island. 

 No. 3433. Sept. 20, 1920. 



Potamogeton diversifolius Raf. — In a pond on Gardiner's Island. No. 3427- 



*Agrostis altissima (Walt.) Tuck. — Low marshy ground, rare at Mattituck. 



A. perennans (Walt.) Tuck.- — Dry soil throughout the town. 



Aristida tuberculosa Nutt.- — Rare along the railroad track in ashes at Laurel 

 in the western part of the town. It is abundant in sandy soil a few miles 

 further west but outside the town of Southold. 



Calamagrostis cinnoides (Muhl.) Scribn.^ — Not common in low open ground at 

 Mattituck. 



Festtica Myiiros L. — Wet sandy soil at Mattituck. 



F. rnbra L. — Orient in rather dry open woods near a salt marsh. 



Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. — Occasionally found in waste places and old 

 yards. 



Fanicularia obtiisa (Muhl.) Ktze.— Mattituck in a swamp. 



* The grasses were named by Mrs. Agnes Chase of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



