Cyperaceae. 65 
(ad Lake Roseau, alt. 1000 metr.), 547 (locis humidis prope Laudat), 
852; Martinique: Guyon. 
Distrib. Texas, America centralis, America australis quam tropica tam 
temperata. 
75. Eleocharis eapillacea Kunth, rhizomate pertenui; culmis 
fascieulatis, 2—5 em. longis, capillaceis, subquadrangularibus; vagina 
summa apice strieta, nec scariosa detergibili; spieula 2—3 nım. longa, 
Juniore lineari-cylindrica, 1—4-nucigera, ferruginea; glumis 2 imis 
spiculam saepe subincludentibus, oblongis vix acutis, scariosis, ima 
saepius vacua in carina viridiore; setis 4-6, cum nuce subaequi- 
longis, retrorsim scabris, ferrugineis; staminibus 2—1; stylo 2-fido; 
nuce cum ?/, parte glumae subaequilonga, obovoidea, plano-convexa, 
levi, castanea; stylobasi parva, conica. 
Eleocharis capillacea Kunth Enum. II (1837) p. 139; Sagra Fl. 
Cub. XI p. 288. 
Scirpus capillaceus Griseb. Pl. Cub. (1866) p. 239. 
Chaetocyperus eapillaceus Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. II pars I (1842) 
p. 983. 
Heleocharis capillacea Boeck.! in Linnaeca XXXVI (1869—70) 
p. 434. a 
Hab. in Cuba: €. Wright. 
Distrib. in America, a Carolina usque ad Paraguay. 
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___ 76. Eleocharis atropurpurea Kunth, annua, culmis 5—15 cm. 
longis, tenuibus, striatis; vagina apice herbacea, nec scariosa deter- 
gibili; spieula 3—8 mm. longa, ovoidea, aut eylindrica, atropurpurea; 
glumis polyspiris, late elliptieis, obtusis, caducis, ima paullo majore, 
magis viridi, vacua; setis 7—5 (vel paucioribus vel nullis), retrorsim 
scabris, albis (raro pallide einnamomeis); stylo 2-fido; nuce cum 1/, —?/; 
parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, plano-convexa, atro-castanea; stylo- 
basi minima, bulboso-conica. | 
Eleocharis atropurpurea Kunth! Enum. II (1837) p. 151; J.Gay! 
in Flora NXV (1842) p. 641; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
KE 2: 827. 
Eleocharis Lereschüi Shuttlew.! in Flora XX (1837) p. 241. 
Eleocharis capitata var. ß. Torrey in Ann. Lyceum New York III 
(1836) p. 305. 
Seirpus atropurpureus Retz. Obs. V (1789) p. 14. 
Seirpus oereatus Griseb.! Pl. Cub. (1866) p. 239. 
Isolepis atropurpurea Roem. et Sch. Syst. II (1817) p. 106; Kunth 
Enum. II p. 190. 
Isolepis allochroa et I. dichroa Steud. Oyp. (15855) p. 91. 
Urban, Symb. ant. II. 5 
