[Reprinted from Torreya, Vol. 21, No. 2, March-April, 1921.] 



THE FLORA OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD, LONG 

 ISLAND AND GARDINER'S IELAND 



By Steward H. Burnham and Roy A. Latham 

 {Continued from January— February ToRreya) 



SPERMATOPHYTA 



Picea rubens 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. 



Pinus 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. 



Sparganium 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. 



Festuca Myuros L. — Wet sandy soil at Mattituck. 



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



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

 yards. 



Panicularia obtusa (Muhl.) Ktze. — Mattituck in a swamp. 



Panicum meridionale Ashe — In dry woods at Cutchogue ; determined as Pani- 

 cum albemarlense Ashe. 



P. tennesseense Ashe — Southold in sandy soil. 



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

 Agriculture. 



