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smaller, narrower-leafed, and in every way more delicate plant than S. flori- 
danus. It grows in similar 53 but is much more common about Jack- 
sonvi age H. Curtiss’s Ros. 4 : e 
dpo sholus e ben Apal ied] ud Jacksonville, Fla., rather moist 
"M d in pine barrens. Grows in 3 tufts, the dried sheaths at base of 
culms becoming ha and polishec 
Spor obolus indicus R. Br.—Selma and Mobila, Ala. ; Tallahassee, „„ and 
Ja nville, Fla. ; Savannah and Augusta, Ga.; Aiken, S. C.; Wilmington, N. C 
8 roadsides, ad along streets in the itia almost everywhere in the South. 
Varies much in size and 1n the shape of the panicle, which is sometimes very 
narrow and p like, sometimes more open, with longer branches. Usually 
affecied with smu 
e junceus iud. —Jacksonville, Fla.; Aiken, S. C.; Wilmington, N. C., in 
b In flower at Wilmington August 3. 
€ "il virginia Kunth.—St. Georges Island, Florida, on the beach, with Paspalum 
ichum. The slender, rather ene rootstocks send up tufts of culms at 
in peta ls. As is usually the case with grasses with creeping rootstocks, a 
majority of the plants are sterile. 
Agrostis alba vulgaris Thurb.—Polk County, Tenn.; Selma, Ala.; Jacksonville, Fla.; 
avannah, Ga.; Norfolk, Va., along pibas. tracks, at roadsides, and about 
wharves. The, form cid at Selma, Jacksonville, and Savannah is slender, 
very glaucous, with numerous sterile "hoot and grows in moist soil. In Polk 
County, Tenn., besides the ordinary “redtop,” a slender, strict form, about 1 
foot high, ih small 55 was ias along the Marietta and North 
Georgia Railroad in the Hiw. 
Agrostis alba L. var.—Hiwassee Gi Donk County, Tenn., in wet ground. A 
large, succulent form, with stout geniculate culms and large panicles. 
Agrostis scabra Willd.—Polk MM Tenn.; ok: bame Ga.; Aiken, S. C.; Wilming- 
ton, N. C., in fields Jer roadsid 
Cinna arundinacea L.—Norfolk, Va., arshes. 
Ammophila arenaria uen Laa e River Beach, near Norfolk, Va., just above 
high tide. Grows in large patches, with here and there a fertile plant. Smaller 
here than farther north. 
AVENE. 
Holcus lanatus L.—Asheville, N. C.; Polk County, Tenn.; Norfolk, Va., moist 
ground, roadsides, and along railway tracks. 
Trisetum palustre Torr.—Hiwassee Gorge, Polk County, Tenn., on a wet rock—a 
single specimen. 
Avena sativ iva L.—Hiwassee Gorge, Polk County, eri adventitious along railway. 
Danthonia sericea Nutt.—Mobile, Ala.; Aiken, S. C., dry pine barrens; past flowering. 
Danthonia spicata Besur.— Knoxville, Tenn.; Polk Eidos Tenn., dry soil, woods 
and fields. 
CHLORIDE. 
Cynodon cm Pers.—At every point visited, except Polk County, Tenn. On the 
beach a 
Apalachicola occurs a reduced form, with small leaves and short flower- 
ing v and spikes, which produces sterile shoots sometimes 7 feet long, 
making an admirable sand ia Along the railway track opposite Augusta | 
I found the large form 3 feet hi 
Spartirg densiflora Brongn LEM ME Gil and St. Georges Island, Fla., in the sea 
marshes, with S. juncea. Resembles Ammophila in habit and in the spike-like 
panicle, which is often purplish. Culms sometimes nearly 5 feet high. 
stock penetrates deep into the sand, rooting at intervals, like that of Amm 
