212 . HARPER 



April-Nov. More common farther inland. A weed in old 

 fields in Middle Georgia. 

 Widely distributed in the Eastern United States, but natural 

 range uncertain. 



E. eriogonoides Small, Bull. Torrey Club 25 :6i4. 1898. 



Normally in intermediate pine-barrens; rare, bulloch: 

 near Bloys (846); berrien: near Adel (2196). Fl. May- 

 June. These are probably the only natural stations known 

 for it. At the type-locality (Darien Junction, Mcintosh 

 Co.), also near Pinebloom and Tifton, and in Wayne County 

 between Jesup and Screven, it grows in rather damp sand 

 along railroads. Mr. Curtiss's specimen from Pearson, 

 coffee Co. (see p. 124) had a similar habitat. 



Reported also from Florida, probably in similar situations. 



E. gracilis Ell., Sk. 2: 657. 1824. 



E. gracilis rotundifolia Wood, Class-book 627. 1861. 

 Normally on sand-hills, more rarely in dry pine-barrens. 



BULLOCH (826), EMANUEL, TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, TEL- 

 FAIR, coffee, decatur. Fl. April-Aug. Extends inland 

 (naturally) to the vicinity of Dublin and Hawkinsville, 

 and coastward to Bryan and Charlton Counties. More 

 common as a weed along railroads, like the preceding, 

 extending as far inland as Sandersville in this way. Early 

 in the season it is almost leafless. When fully developed 

 its leaves vary from linear to orbicular, or even broader. 

 (Wood's variety is nothing but one of the extreme varia- 

 tions, connected with the other forms by all possible 

 gradations.) E. Ipecacuanha L., which replaces this on the 

 fall-line sand-hills of Richmond County, exhibits similar 

 variations, as has been noted by Chapman, Wood, DeVries, 

 and others. 

 South Carolina to Florida, in the coastal plain. 



E. MACULATA L., Sp. PI. 455. 1753. 



A common weed, mostly along railroads. Still commoner 

 in the older-settled parts of the state. Seems to grow be- 

 tween the rails of every railroad in the Eastern United 

 States (from Massachusetts to Florida at least). 



