106 JOURNAL OF THE [Octobcr, 



3072 in part (Distr. as E. a/bida) ; also seen by Mr. Clarke from 

 Carolina, Beyrich, 677 and Charleston, Cabanis, 356. 



21. E. TORTiLis (Link), Schultes, Mant. ii. 92 (1824). 

 Scirpus tortilts, Link, Jahr. iii. 78, fide Schultes. 

 Scirpus simplex^ Ell. Sk. i. 76 (1821). 



Eleocharis simplex, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. iii. 306 (1836). 



Fulton, Del., and Salisbury and Ocean City, Md., Canby ; 

 Wilmington, N. C, Curtiss; South Carolina, Elliott; Aiken, S. C, 

 Ravenel ; Alabama, Porter ; Florida, Chapman ; Alexandria, 

 La., Hale ; Texas, Wright in Herb. Gray. 



22. E. TUBERCULOSA (Michx.), Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 152 



(1817). 

 Scirpus tuber culosus, Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. 30 (1803). 



Tewksbury, Mass., B. D. Greene ; Manchester, Mass., Cakes; 

 Salem, Mass., Dr. Pickering, fide Torrey ; South Kingston, R. I., 

 Olney ; Long Island, State Flora ; Erastina, Staten Island, 

 Britton ; Manchester, N. J., Porter ; near Camden, N. J., C. E. 

 Smith ; Quaker Bridge, N. J., Torrey ; Browns Mills and Batsto, 

 N. J., Martindale ; and generally frequent in southern New 

 Jersey, and southward along the Atlantic coast, extending west- 

 ward to New Orleans, La., Ingalls ; and Texas, E. Hall, 699. 



The var. /3 Torr. Ann. Lye. 1. c. 308, appears to me only as 

 the large and luxuriant form of the species. 



(C) LeiocarpiccB. 

 \Capillace(z. 



23. E. MINIMA, Kunth, Enum. ii. 138 (1837). 



Mexico, fide Clarke. 



I am unacquainted with this species. 



24. E. PROLIFERA, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1. c. 316 (1836). 

 North Carolina, Curtis ; Charleston, S. C, B. D. Greene ; 



Milledgeville, Ga., Boykin ; Columbus, Ga., Boykin ? ; southern 

 states. Herb. Baldwin ; Florida, Chapman ; Louisiana, Hale ; 

 near Covington, La., Langlois ; Sink Hole Cr., Polk Co., 

 Fla., J, Donnell Smith ; pine barren exsiccated ponds, Wilming- 

 ton, N. C, Curtis, not at all proliferous. 



Mr. Clarke proposes to reduce this to a variety of the Cuban 

 E. catnptotricha, Sauv. Fl. Cub. 173 (1868), and doubtless with 

 good reason, but that is a more recently published name, and 



