Eleocharis CYPERACEAE Bulhostylis 



E. microcarpa Torr. var. filiculmis Torr. (Incl. E. Torreyana 

 Boeckl. See Svenson: Rhodora 39, 228. 1937.) 

 Infrequent; pond margins and ditches of the Coastal Plain. 

 July to Sept. 



E. tortilis (Link) Schult. See Svenson: Rhodora 39, 245. 1937. 



Infrequent, in wet soil, Maryland and southern Delaware. 

 July to early Sept. 



Coastal Plain species. 



E. tuberculosa (Mx.) R. & S. (Incl. E. simplex (Ell.) Dietr.) 



Frequent in wet sand, pond margins and low pine woods, Kent 

 County, Del., and southward. June to mid-Sept. 



E. melanocarpa Torr. 



Rare, in wet sand, Sussex County: "between Gumboro and 

 Laurel," Commons, 5 Aug. 1874 (A) ; Ellendale, C. S. Williamson, 

 9 July 1908 (A, P). 



E. albida Torr. See Rhodora 39, 271-272. 1937. 



Rare, in wet sand: Eastville (No), Canby, in 1873 (A); Ocean 

 City (Wo), Canby, 23 July 1893 (D); Sandy Hill Landing, Nanti- 

 coke River (Wi), Otis, 30 June 1915 (D). 



Psilocarya Torr. Bald Rush. 

 P. scirpoides Torr. 



Rare; pond margins and desiccated ponds. Coastal Plain: 

 "Baltimore Hundred," s. e. Sussex County, Commons, 10 Sept. 

 1875 (A); pond 1 mi. s. of Sharptown (Wi), R. R. Tatnall, 3138, 

 22 Aug. 1936 (T); Hudson Pond, 5 mi. s. of Milford (S), R. R. 

 Tatnall, 3940, 7 Sept. 1938 (T, G); Salisbury (Wi), A. V. Smith, in 

 Rhodora 41, 111. 1939. 



P. nitens (Vahl) Wood. 



Rare, on margins of ponds: Felton (K), Canby in 1868 (A, D); 

 edge of millpond near Milford (S), Otis, 8 Sept. 1920 (A). 



Bulbostylis C. B. Clarke 

 B. capillaris (L.) Clarke. {Stenophyllus capillaris of Gray's Man., 

 ed. 7. See Fernald: Rhodora 40, 391-396. 1938.) 

 Rare, on serpentine soil and on waste ground: serpentine soil 

 near Centreville (NC), Commons, Sept. 1866 (A); near Sharptown 

 (Wi), Otis, 2 Nov. 1914 (D). 



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