78 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



151. Stenophyllus capillaris (Linnaeus) Britton. 



Scirpus capillaris Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, P- 49- 



Bulboslylis capillaris Clarke, in Hooker, Flora of British India, VI, 1893, p. 652. 

 Stenophyllus capillaris Britton, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, XXI, 

 1894, p. 30. 



Reported by Britton, in his Studies of West Indian Plants, VIII, 

 Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, XLIII, 1916, pp. 447, 448, 

 as follows: "Sandy and rocky soil. Provinces of Oriente and Pinar 

 del Rio and on the Isle of Pines, Cuba, pinelands at high elevations 

 in Santo Domingo, Jamaica (not recently collected), continental 

 North America, temperate South America." 



152. Abildgaardia monostachya (Linnaeus) Vahl. 



Cyperus monostachyus Linn^us, Mantissa Plantarum, 1771, p. 180. 

 Abildgaardia monostachya Vahl, Enumeratio Plantarum, II, 1806, p. 296. 

 Fimbrislylis monostachya Hasskarl, Plantae Javanicae Rariores, 1848, p. 61. 

 Jriha monostachya O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 1891, p. 751. 

 Scirpus monostachya O. Kuntze, op. cit.. Ill, (2), 1898, p. 337. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 7, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 483. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Widely distributed throughout the tropics of both 

 hemispheres. In America it extends northwards through the West 

 Indies and the Bahamas. 



153. Fuirena simplex Vahl. 



Fuirena simplex Vahl, Eclogae Americanae, II, 1798, p. 8. 

 Fuirena obtusifolia Vahl, I. c. 



Fuirena Schiedeana C. Wright, in Sauvalle, Anales del Academia de Ciencias 

 Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, VIII, 1871, p. 177, n. 2645. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 17, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 237; 



bank of stream iat Keenan's estate, Nueva Gerona, May 9, 1910, 



0. E. Jennings, No. 176; in low recently cleared land north of Nueva 



Gerona, May, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, Nos. 141a and 131. General 



Distribution: From Nebraska to Texas and Mexico, Isle of Pines 



and Cuba. 



154. Fuirena umbellata Rottboell. 



Fuirena umbellata Rottboell, Descriptiones et Icones Plantarum Rariorum, i773. 



p. 70, pi. 19, i. e., pi. 18, altera fig. 3. 

 Fuirena paniculata Linn-;us, f., Supplementum Plantarum, 1781, p. 105. 

 Fuirena camptotricha C. Wright, in Sauvalle, Anales del Academia de Ciencias 



Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, VIII, 1871, p. 177, n. 2645. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 17 and April 5, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, 



