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specific distinctions. 



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Torrey, in 1824, 



F. sauarrosa and F 



better to regard them as species, as 

 inct from one another bv characters 



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 rightly understood F. scirpoidea, 



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editions of the Manual, 



atter. Gray, in various 



tely ignored Michaux's 



F. squarrosa, rightly recognized Elliott's F. hispid a, and 

 relegated F. squarrosa to Torrey's var. pumila. Chap- 

 man, in 1860, rightly understood Elliott's F. hispida, 

 which thirty-five years afterward he asserted was a good 

 species, but he applied Michaux's name F. sq 

 species which thirty years later was descril 

 as F. sauarrosa breviseta, although he had 



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1 by Coville 

 had collected and 

 distributed the real F. squarrosa which he did not recog- 

 nize. Mr. Coville in his revision gives Louisiana as the 

 western limit of Fuirena squarrosa, as does alsoBritton in 

 the Illustrated Flora and in the Manual of the Northern 

 States and Canada, and the same range is assigned to this 

 species by Dr. Small in his Flora of the Southern United 

 States ; but I have not seen any specimens from west of 

 Florida, all those examined from west of 1 

 longinc either to F. breviseta or F. hispida. 



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Dr. Britton, in the works above-mentioned, gives 

 Nebraska as part of the range of F. squarrosa, as does Dr. 

 Small in his Flora, but I think this rests on an error of 

 determination, for I do not think that F. squarrosa, which 

 is a strictly maritime species, could be found in Nebraska 

 where only plants of sandy plains or saline soil are found. 



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