1918] Blake,— Notes on the Clayton Herbarium 25 
recent years as Fimbristylis Frankii Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 111 (1855), 
for which the name F. geminata (Nees) Kunth has been adopted in the 
second edition of Britton & Brown’s Illustrated Flora (i. 322 (1913)). 
The name FIMBRISTYLIS AUTUMNALIS (L.) R. & S. Syst. ii. 97 (1817) 
must accordingly be transferred to this species. The form with con- 
tracted inflorescence, described by Prof. Fernald, RHopora xi. 180 
(1909), from Orono, Maine, under the name F. Frankii var. brachyactis, 
seems best treated as F. aurumMNauis (L.) R. & S. forma brachy- 
actis (Fernald). 
The plant now passing as F. autumnalis has received numerous 
names at different times under several genera, among which the oldest 
seems to be Scirpus mucronulatus Michx. FI. i. 31 (1803). The types 
of this species in the Michaux Herbarium at Paris have obligingly 
been examined by M. Gadaceau of the Paris Herbarium and pro- 
nounced identical with material sent him of the southern species 
hitherto called F. autumnalis. The F. autumnalis of our present 
manuals must consequently become FimpristyLis mucronulata 
(Michx.). 
The type of Scirpus complanatus Retz. (= Fimbristylis complanata 
(Retz.) Link), in the British Museum — a species sometimes synony- 
mized with F. autumnalis of authors — represents a different species, 
with which Harris 11618 from Jamaica (in the British Museum) agrees 
very well; the type of Cyperus amentaceus Rudge, Pl. Guian. 16. t. 19 
(1805 ?), is identical with it. 
A considerable range extension of the true F. autumnalis (i. e., 
F. Franki Steud.) is indicated by some rather young plants in the 
British Museum from Nuttall, labelled “R{ocky] Mts.,” which I am 
unable to distinguish from this species. 
3. Schoenus glomeratus L. Sp. i. 44 (1753). Examination of the 
extensive series representing Rynchospora glomerata (L.) Vahl and its 
so-called var. paniculata (Gray) Chapm. in the Gray Herbarium shows 
that the two are specifically distinct, as they were originally treated by 
Dr. Gray. The more northern plant, which has passed as true glomer- 
ata, has an achene 1.5 mm. long (including the crustaceous “ perianth-” 
1 Schoenus glomeratus. 
“8. SCHOENUS culmo triquetro folioso, floribus fasciculatis, foliis planis, pedunculis 
lateralibus geminis. 
“Schoenus culmo triquetro, pedunculis geminis lateralibus, floribus conglomeratis. Gron. 
virg. 131. 
“ Habitat in Virginia.” 
