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Cyperus phymatodes, MiiliL From Florida to Ne^v York, and west to 
New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Truckee River bottom, Nevada ; July, 
August Low, 6-10' in lieiglit (1,208.) 
Eleocharis palustris, R Br. From the Arctic Regions lo Ww (iulf 
and westward. Collected in Nevada and Utah. (1,209.) 
Var. Tall and stout, (2 J° high,) with large loose deeply cleft sheaths ; 
bristles exceeding the oblong-triangular obtuse tubercle. Fruit occasionally 
ergotized. Huntington Valley, Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude. (1,210.) 
Eleocharis acicularis, R. Br. Northern States to Hudson's Bay and 
the Saskatchewan, and southward to Florida and Texas ; California. Truckee 
River bottom, Nevada. (1,211.) 
SciRPUS ToRREYi, Oluey. New England to Pennsylvania and Wiscon- 
sin. Collected by Stansbury on Stansbury Island, Salt Lake, with longer and 
larger spikes and the achenium with a shorter point than in the eastern form. 
SciRPUs VALiDus, Vahl. From latitude ST"" southward to Florida, Texas, 
New Mexico, and Southern California. Frequent on stream-banks and in 
marshes in the valleys of Nevada; 4-6,000 feet altitude. Growing 8-12'^ 
high and V in diameter. (1,212.) 
^ SciRPUs Nevadensis. Culm 8-12' high, slender, terete, substriate, from 
a perennial (?) root, exceeding the convolute leaves, which are flattened above 
and rough margined ; spikes 1-2, 3-9" long, many-flowered and terete, ovoid 
or ovate-oblong, acutish, sessile, much shorter than the semi-terete flattened 
above and rough-margined erect involucral leaf; scales broadly ovate, obtuse 
or acute with the projecting midvein, chestnut-colored, smooth and shining ; 
stamens 3 ; style 2-clefl ; bristles 1-3, very short ; achenium broadly obovat^'e,' 
plano-convex, very abruptly short-pointed, shining, minutely reticulated.— 
Shore of Soda Lake in Carson Desert, Nevada; August. (1,213.) 
SciRPus MARiTiMus, L. Sca-coast and salt-springs from New Brunswick 
to Florida; on the Saskatchewan; Washington Territory and California; 
New Mexico and Arizona. Humboldt Valley, Nevada. (1,214.) 
SciRPUS MiCROCARPUS, Prcsl. Ncw England ; Northwest Coast, latitude 
55°, (Scouler.) Monitor Valley, Pah-Ute and East Humboldt Mountains, 
Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 5-7,000 feet altitude. (1,215.) 
' FiMBRiSTYLis THERMALis. Scabrous-pubesccut throughout ; culms 1-1 .1° 
high, from a perennial stoloniferous root, rigid, compressed, striate ; lea\' s 
shorter, 1-2" broad, clinnneled nn.l nioroor loss convolute ; spikes 3-5, the 
