264 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Eleocharis rostellata Torr. Beaked Spike-rush. 

 PI. XVII, Fig. 12. 



Scirf^us rostcUatus Torrey, Ann. Lye. N. Y. III. 318. 1836 [Penn Yan 



Yates Co. N. Y. and So. Carolina]. 

 Eleocharis rostellata Willis 68. — Bri'ton Jour. N. Y. Micros. Soc. V. no. 



1889.— Britton 262.— Keller and Brown 62- 



Common along the edge of the salt marshes of the coast and 

 on the Hackensack marshes north of our limits. 



This species is noted for the rooting of the tips of the sterile 

 scapes, which thus form loops or arches that continually catch the 

 feet as one walks through the meadows. 



Fr. — Late June to mid- August, 



Maritime. — Ocean Grove, Pt. Pleasant, Seaside Park, Barnegat Pier, 

 Manahawkin, Spray Beach (L), Beach Haven (L), Sherburn's (L), Atlantic 

 City (C), Somers Pt., Cape May Ct. House, Cold Spring, Cape May (S), 

 Dennis. 



DICHROMENA Michaux. 

 Dichromena colorata (L.). Narrow-leaved Dichromena. 



Schoeniis coloratus Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 43. 1753 [Jamaica and Bahamas]. 

 Dichromena leucocephala Gray Man. Ed. I. 531. 1848. — Willis 69. 

 Dichromena cephalotes Britton 263. 



The occurrence of this plant in New Jersey seems to be based 

 upon the statement in the first edition of Gray's Manual (1848), 

 where this State is included in the range, though upon what evi- 

 dence it is now impossible to ascertain. No one is quoted as 

 authority, and Prof. Fernald writes me that he can find no speci- 

 men, that might have been responsible for the record, in the Gray 

 Herbarium. 



Willis gives it as occurring in "wet places among the pine 

 forests. Ocean and Monmouth Counties," but it is not mentioned 

 by Knieskern, and Willis' statement was doubtless based upon 

 Gray. Britton simply quotes Gray and Willis, adding "not re- 

 cently collected." 



Notwithstanding the lack of specimens or any definite informa- 

 tion, New Jersey is quoted in the range of the plant in all the 

 manuals down to the present time. 



It is included here simply to emphasize the facts regarding its 

 reported occurrence in the State, which up to the present time I 

 have been utterly unable to substantiate. 



