158. cYPERACE X. 249 
(Maingay, 159!), Chefoo Mts. (Faber, 1517!) ; Kianasr: Kiu- 
kiang (Forbes, 192!) ; Formosa: Takow (Playfair, 171! A. 
Henry, 1088!); Hvrzn: Ichang (A. Henry, 2740, 4212, 4296 !), 
Patung (A. Henry, 78!), Yangtzekiang (Faber, 1123!); SZECHUEN 
(Farges!); Yunnan: Tapintze (Delavay, 1771, 1778!), Mosoyn 
(Delavay, 4075! rhizomate longius repente); Kwanerune: 
Macao (Calléry, 426!), Canton (Nevin!); Honexone (Wilford 
272! Harland!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Extends from Madagascar to Amurland, the Philippines, and 
Tropical Australia. The American form extends from Georgia 
to Labrador. 
3. Scirpus Eriophorum, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. p. 33 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. (1869-70) p. 731; C. B. Clarke, in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 661; Boeck. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
vi. (1885) p. 51? 
Eriophorum cyperinum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, p. 77; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl, iii, p. 1052. 
Suantune : Chefoo Mts. (Faber, 68!); Cuexrane: Tientai 
Mts. (Faber, 70!); Huren (E. H. Wilson, 1632 !), alt. 6700 feet 
(E. H. Wilson, 1637 a!); SzkcnHvEN (A. Henry, 8836, 8912 !), 
Tachienlu, alt. 9000-13,500 feet (Pratt, 420!) ; Lucuv Arcut- 
PELAGO (Déderlein). Herb. Kew. 
Very common in cooler North America aud in Japan, extend- 
ing to the East Himalaya and Khasi Mountains, where it is 
frequent. 
Bentham and Hooker put this species back into Eriophorum, 
on the stated ground that the sete are altogether as in Erio- 
phorum alpinum and not as in Scirpus. I find the sete in 
Scirpus Eriophorum very slender, setaceous, undivided, as of 
S. sylvaticus, Linn., while in E. alpinum the sete are ligulate, 
often, sometimes deeply, laciniate. But it may well be held that 
the whole section of Scirpus called Sylvatici (= Seidlia, genus 
Opiz) is more nearly allied to Eriophorum than to Scirpus by 
the leafy stem and elongate inflorescence. 
4. Scirpus filipes, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. 
Glabra. Rhizoma robustius, repens. Culmi 12-20 unc. longi, 
graciliores, per totam longitudinem remote nodosi, apice tri- 
quetri. Folia 8-15 unc. longa, 2 lin. lata. Umbelle radii 1-6, 
pertenues, inzequales, 1-6-staehyi; bractea ima longa (usque ad 
LINN. JOURN.—BOTANY, VOL. XXXVI, 8 
