In the spring of 1894, Allen Hiram Curtiss (1845-1907), perhaps the first professional botanist to reside in Florida (Wunderlin and Hansen 2000), came upon a robust blue-eyed-grass in the “pine barrens near Jacksonville,” Duval County, Florida. On March 17 he made collections of this plant in flower and on June 1 in fruit. He then, as was his practice, prepared printed labels: “Curtiss’ Second Distribution of Plants of the Southeastern United States,” the habitat and location, and his name. H