RHODORA, Vol. No. 189-190, 1993 95, 882, pp. A TAXONOMIC STUDY AND OF ARISTIDA STRICTA ADDENDUM' ARISTIDA BEYRICHIANA; Robert K. Peet have discovered an I additional isotype oiAristida beyrichiana & mo Trinius Ruprecht held at (2874410). The label includes the and specific date location of the collection, information lacking on the labels of the other known type material. The specimen comes from the Bemhardi Herbarium D'Arcy, 1971) and (see is mounted together with a collection of Aristida Michaux, striata The apparently by CB, collected Nuttall. label includes the initials and M. Greenman annotated the collection as that of Charles J. Beyrich. This Beyrich collection has the same degree of spikelet immaturity as the isotypes in l and us. The label reads "6/1 33/' which consistent with the that Beyrich collected in the is fact southeastem states only in 1833 (Sayre, 1975), and the June 1 The date consistent with the immaturity of the label is spikelets. indicates that the collection from the area near Ebenezer, Pre- is sumably Ebenezer Effingham County, Geor- this the located in is approximately 25 miles from Thomas) of the oldest villages in Georgia and, being on the main route of travel up the Savannah River, was visited by traveling botanists such as William Bartram (Harper, 1958). Aristida beyrichiana is known (EHCV for Effingham County, Georgia 571). There was Morgan in the early 800's another village of Ebenezer, Georgia in 1 County (Baldwin and Thomas), but location out of the this is range of^. beyrichiana and much less likely to have been visited is by Beyrich. A and 'Peet, R. K. 1993. tsixonomk study oT Aristida stricta A. beyriciana. Rhodora 25-37. 95: LITERATURE CITED New United Baldwin, and Thomas. and Complete Gazetteer of the T. 1854. J. & Grambo PA. States. Lippincott, Co., Philadelphia, D'Arcy, W. Herbarium. Bulletin C. 1971. Mysteries and treasures in Berlandi's Missouri Botanical Garden 59: 20-25. Harper, Ed. 1958. The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist's Edition. F., New Yale Univ. Haven, CT. Press, Sayre, G. Cryptogamae an annotated bibliography of exsic- 1975. exsiccatae: 189 Rhodora [Vol.95 190 Mem. New York Gard and Bot. muscii. of hepaticae, catae algae, lichens, 277^23. 19: DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, CB#3280 NORTH CAROLINA OF UNIVERSITY NC USA CHAPEL 27599-3280 HILL,