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Cyperus ferax, Rich. — Agreeing with the description except in 
the darker brown spikelets. 1 have seen no authentic specimens, and 
refer Mr. Buckley's to this species with some doubt. 
Cyperus Baldwiniiy Torr. 
Cyperus ovular is ^ Torr. 
Cyperus cylindricus^ Britton, in Bull. Torr. Bot. Clud., vii., 48. 
Cyperus flavus, Vahl. {C flavomariscus, Griseb.) 
Cyperus luiiflorus, Torr. Also a form with 3-5-flowered spikelets. 
Cyperus unifiorus^ Torr., var. pumilus, 7i, z^^r.— Culm about three ^ 
inches high, equalling the leaves. Inflorescence of a single, occasion- 
ally slightly compound head of from 8 to 20 spikelets, mostly com- 
posed of three glumes ; the lower persistent, empty; the middle one 
fertile; the upper sterile, subulate. I refer here also No. 350, Palmer, 
Indian Territory. 
Fuirena squarrosa^ Michx. Also var. macrostachya, n. var. — ^^ 
Spikes 8 to 12 lines long, lanceolate, stout. Perianth-scales tipped 
With a downwardly-barbed awn of their own length, or longer. Plant 
one to two feet high, stout; leaves broadly linear, nearly smooth, 
some of them slightly ciliate towards the base. 
Hcmicarpha subsquarrosa^ Rees. 
Heliocharis equisetoides, Xoir. 
Heliocharis obtusa^ Schultes. — A form with fewer scales. 
Heliocharis palustris, R. Br.— Several forms, including the var. 
calva. Gray, with bristles absent, and one with very large tubercles 
on the achenia. 
Heliocharis capilata, R. Br. (The /?, Torr. Cyp. p. 305.) 
Heliocharis Texana, n, sp, — Cuhii very slender, less than half 
a line wide, three-angled, apparently erect. Spikes linear, slightly ^ 
compressed or terete, one line wide, ,5 to .75 inch long, acutish. 
Scales very numerous, the lowest ovate and obtusish, the others 
ovate-lanceolate and acute, all with broad hyaline margins._ Acheni- 
um obovoid, contracted at the neck, tipped with a conical, acute 
tubercle. Style deeply three-cleft, roughened. Stamens three, longer 
than the achenium. Bristles none. 
Heliocharis acicularis^ R. Br. — A large form. 
Scirpus pungens, Vahl— Specimens with 3-cleft styles, and bristles 
^slong as the achenia." 
Scirpus validus^ Vahl. 
Scirpiis fnaritimus^ L. 
^cijpus lineatus, Michx. 
Fimbrisiylis spadicea, Vahl,, var. castanea, Gray. 
Pimbristylis laxa, Vahl. 
Pimbristylis autuwfialis, R. & S. 
Pimbristylis capillaris. Gray. 
Pimbristylis congcsta, Torr. 
-Dichromena Icucocephala, Michx. 
Phoradendron.— Dr Britton's note in the July Bulletin re- 
^eminds me that twenty years ago I was cognizant of the presence of 
^.f rgp bunch of Phoradendron on an old Liquidambar, at the road- 
^i^e, about three and a half mHcs north of Keyport, N. J. It was on 
