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Table IV. — Continued. 



Common Name. 



Scaly-stalked Club-rush, 



Flat-leaved Club-rush, 



Floating Club-rush, 



Chair-bottom Rush, 



Olney's Rush, 



Torrey's Rush, 



Bulrush, 



Weak -stemmed Rush, 



Sea Bulrush, 



River Rush, . 



Wood Rush, . 



Cluster-head Rush, 



Porter's Rush, 



Wool Grass, . 



Cotton Grass, 



Ilarestail, 



Rusty Cotton Grass, 



Broad-leaved Cotton Grass, . 



Narrow-leaved Cotton Grass, 



Tall Fimbristylis, . 



Tufted Fimbristylis, 



Hair-like Fimbristylis, . 



Umbrella Grass, . 



Bald Rush, . . . . 



Horned Rush, 



Dwarf Hemicarpha, 



White Beak-rush, . 



Small Beak-rush, . 



Brown Beak-ru.^h, 



Tall, Slender Beak-rush, 



Common Beak-rush, 



Round-head Beak-rush, 



Smooth Twig-rush, 



Sessile-spiked Nut-rush, 



Loose-flowered Nut-rush, 



Three-clustered Nut-rush, or 

 Whip-grass, . 



Few-flowered Nut-rush, 



Systematic Name 



Scirpus caespitosus, 

 Scirpus planifolius, 

 Scirpus subterminalis, 

 Scirpus pungens, 

 Scirpus Olneyi, 

 Scirpus Torreji, . 

 Scirpus lacustris, . 

 Scirpus debUis, 

 Scirpus maritimus, 

 Scirpus fluviatilis, 

 Scirpus sylvaticus, 

 Scirpus polyphyllus, 

 Scirpus lineatus, . 

 Scirpus Eriophorum, 

 Eriophorum Alpinum, 

 Eriophorum vaginatum, 

 Eriophorum Tirginicum, 

 Eriophorum polystachyon, . 

 Eriophorum gracile, . 

 Fimbristylis spadicea, . 

 Fimbristylis autumahs, 

 Fimbristylis capillaris, 

 Fuirena squarrosa, 

 PsUocarya scirpoides, . 

 Ceratoschoenus macrostachya 

 Hemicarpha subsquarrosa, . 

 Bhynchospora alba, 

 Rhynchospora capiUacea, . 

 Rhynchospora fusca, . 

 Rhynchospora gracilenta, 

 Rhynchospora glomerata, . 

 Rhynchospora cephalantha, 

 Cladium mariscoides, 

 Scleria reticularis, 

 Scleria laxa, 



Scleria triglomerata, 

 Scleria pauciflora, 



Time of 

 Flowering. 



July, . 

 June, . 

 August, 

 July, Aug. 

 July, . 

 July, Aug. 

 July. . 

 August, 

 August, 

 July, Aug. 

 July, . 

 July, . 

 July, . 

 July to Sept. 

 May, June, 

 June, . 



Place of growth. 



Wet mountains. 



Woods, and in bogs. 



Sluggish streams : rare. ^ 



Borders of salt marshes 



and fresh ponds. 

 Salt marshes. 



Borders of ponds. 



Borders of m uddy rivers 



and ponds. 

 Borders of sandy rivers 



and lakes. 

 Salt marshes and salt 



springs. 

 Borders of lakes and 



large streams. 

 Wet meadows. 



Swamps, shady borders 



of ponds. 

 Bogs in western Mass. 



Wet meadows, swamps. 



Peat swamps. 



Mossy swamps andhigh 



mountains. 

 Common in swamps. 



Boggy meadows. 



Wet mossy swamps. 



Salt marshes: rare. 



Low grounds. 



Common on sandy 



fields. 

 Sandy, wet places. 



Inundated swamps. 



Bordersof ponds : rare. 



Sandy borders of rivers 

 and lakes. 



Mossy swamps, com- 

 mon. 



Swamps and marshes. 



Low wet grounds : rare. 

 Low grounds. 



Boggy grounds. 

 Sandy swamps. 



Borders of ponds, bog 

 meadows. 



Sandy swamps and bor- 

 ders of ponds. 



Sandy swamps. 



Swamps and moist 



thickets. 

 Swamps and hills. 



