Eleocharis CYPERACEAE Eleocharis 



E. equisetoides Torr. 



Rare; in ponds: between Gumboro and Laurel (S), Commons, 

 5 Aug. 1874 (A); millponds, Salisbury (Wi), Canby, 21 July 1893 

 (D); pond 1 mi. s. of Sharptown (Wi), R. R. Tatnall, 3139, 22 Aug. 

 1936 (T, G, A). 



E. Robbinsii Oakes. 



Rare, ponds and streams, in shallow water: Felton (K), Canby 

 in 1874, cited by Svenson in Rhodora 31, 154. 1929; Millsboro (S), 

 Commons, 8 July 1884 (A) ; pond w. of station, Milford (S), Long & 

 Van PeZ^, 21 July 1908 (A). 



E. parvula (R. & S.) Link. (Scirpus nanus of Gray's Man., ed. 7.) 

 Frequent; marshes, ditches and salt meadows. Coastal Plain. 

 July, Aug. 



E. rostellata Torr. 



Rare, ponds and salt marshes of the Coastal Plain: salt marsh, 

 Collins Beach (NC), Commons, 20 June 1866 (A, D); Ocean City 

 (Wo), Commons, 25 July 1878 (A); Love Creek, near Rehoboth (S), 

 True, 20 June 1926 (P). 



E. acicularis (L.) R. & S. 



Infrequent, in wet soil. New Castle County. July. 



E. obtusa (Willd.) Schult. 



Common in wet places, Coastal Plain. June to mid-Oct. 



Var. ellipsoidalis Fern. (See Svenson: Rhodora 31, 218. 1929.) 

 "In quagmires at the borders of ponds on the Coastal Plain": 

 Centreville (NC), Commons in 1864 (A); Greenbank (NC), 

 Commons, 18 Aug. 1881 (A). Both cited by Svenson, 1. c, and 

 both in the Piedmont. 



E. Engelmanni Steud. 



Infrequent; wet fields and roadsides. Piedmont and Coastal 

 Plain. Mid-June to mid-Sept. 



E. olivacea Torr. 



Infrequent; wet open places and swampy woods. July to Sept. 



E. flavescens (Poir.) Urban. 



Rare: Ogletown (NC), Commons in 1866; cited by Svenson in 

 Rhodora 41, 47. 1939. 



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