Carex CYPERACEAE— ARACEAE Arisaema 



Tatnall, without date (D) ; Fiddler's Bridge, 1 mile s. of St. Georges 

 (NC), Commons in 1877 and 1884 (A). 

 A northern species, local in our area. 



C. bullata Schk. 



Frequent; swamps on the Coastal Plain. June to Aug. 



-H C. lurida Wahl. 



Common throughout, in swamps and ditches. Late May to 

 July. 



Lupulinae 

 C. intumescens Rudge. 



Frequent; swamps, ditches and wet woods of the Coastal Plain, 

 at least as far south as Worcester County. Mid-May to July. 



C. lupulina Muhl, 



Common throughout, in swamps and ditches. June to Aug. 



C. lupuliformis Sartwell. 



Rare; swamps and ditches of New Castle County. Seems not 

 to have been collected since 1897 (Canby (D)). Mid- June to Aug. 



C. gigantea Rudge. (C grandis Bailey.) 



Infrequent; swamps. Our specimens are all from the Piedmont 

 and Coastal Plain areas of New Castle County. June to Oct. 

 A southern species, here at the northern limit of its range. 



ARACEAE (Arum Family) 



Arisaema Mart. Indian Turnip. 



A. triphyllum (L.) Schott. (Including A. pusillum Nash and A. 

 atroruhens (Ait.) Blume.) Jack-in-the-Pulpit. 



Common in rich woods of the northern half of the Peninsula. 

 Late April to mid-May. 



The treatment in Gray's Manual, 7th edition, is here followed, as 

 a tentative and unsatisfactory approach to the confused taxonomy 

 of this group. See Fernald: Rhodora 42, 247-254. 1940. 



A. Dracontium (L.) Schott. Green Dragon. 



Infrequent in low ground. Piedmont and Coastal Plain of New 

 Castle and Cecil Counties. Late May to mid-July. 



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