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Around a little garden back of the pavilion were found the 

 following weeds : Acnlypha gracilois, Acalyplia ostryacfulia, 

 FyrrhopappJts caroli}iiaiiiis, Sida rhouilnfolia, /linarant/iiis spinosus, 

 Datura Stramonium and Physa/is pubescciis. 



Following is the list of grasses and sedges collected on the 

 island. Most of them were indentified by Professor A. S. Hitch- 

 cock, to whom I wish to express my thanks. 

 Cyiwdon Dactyloii (L.) Pers. Jumbristy/is spadicea (L.) Vahl 



Elcusinc indica (L.) Gaertn. Lcptochloa fascuularis (Lam.) 



Spartina polystacJiya (Michx.) Gray 



p:ii. 



Panicuui virgatnm L. 



Pa)nciim laiiugiitosum \\\\. 



Panic It m amanun Ell. 



Panicum agrostoides Sprang. 



Scleria triglomerata Michx. 



Stcnotaphrum dimidiatum (L.) 



Brong. 



PIdcum pratense L. 



Sporobohis indicus (L.) R. Br. 



SporoboltLs virginicus L. 



University of North Carolina, 

 Chapel Hill, N. C. 



Disticldis spicata (L.) Greene 

 SyntJierisma filiformc (L.) Nash 

 Paspaliim altissimum LeConte 

 Unio/a laxa (L.) B. S. P. 

 U idol a patiiculata L. 

 Ccnchriis tribuloidcs L. 

 Spartina patens (Ait.) Muhl. 

 Cy perns pseudovegettis Steud. 

 Cyperus escidentus L. 

 Cypcrus Nitttallii P'.ddy 



SHORTER NOTES 



Names of Insects. — It is continually observed, that when 

 entomologists have occasion to refer to plants, they seem to 

 think that " any old name " will do. For example, Dr. H. G. 

 Dyar has in Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, 1902, an article on larvae 

 of moths found in Colorado. The entomological part of the 

 article is admirable ; but some of the references to the plants on 

 which the caterpillars fed are extraordinary. The queerest error 

 occurs on page 409, where Onosmodinin is metamorphosed into 

 Pnosmodium, and a new moth bred from it is actuall}' named 

 Gracilaria pnosmodiella by Mr. Busck ! Opposed as I am to 

 changing the form of names, I shall feel obliged to refer to this 

 insect as Gracilaria onosviodiella. Having admitted the sins o 



