270 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Frequent with the preceding along the coast and on the Bay 

 shore of the Cape May peninsula in shallow w^ater bordering the 

 salt marshes or tidewater creeks, northward to the Hackensack 

 meadows. 



Fr. — iLate July to early September. 



Maritime. — Squan (C), Toms River (C), Forked River, Manahawkin, 

 Surf City (L), Barnegat City (L), Brant Beach (L), Capt May Ct. House 

 (S), Cold Spring. Cape May Pt. (S), Dennis, Sluice Creek (S), Beaver Dam. 



Scirpus torreyi Olney. Torrey's Bull-rush. 

 PI. XX, Fig. 5- 



Scirpus Torreyi Olney, Proc. Providence Frank. Soc. I. 32. 1847 [near 

 Providence, also West Point — Torrey]. — Stone Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila. 1908, p. 458. 



Found for the first time in the State on August 10, 1907, by 

 the writer. It was growing along the edge of a shallow pond 

 above D'elancO' near the Delaware River. 



Fr. — Mid-July to mid-September. 



Middle District. — Delanco. 



Scirpus validus Vahl. Bull-rush, 

 PI. XX., Fig. I. 



Scirpus validus Vahl, Enum. II. 268. 1806 [Carabees and Jamaica]. 

 Scirpus lacustris Barton I. 2)2)- i8i8- — Knieskern 34. — Britton 264. — Keller 

 and Brown 65. 



Frequent in open swamps or in shallow v/ater, except in the 

 Pine Barren district. 



Fr. — Late June to early August. 



Middle District.— New Egypt, Camden, Mickleton, MuUica Hill (NB), 

 Lindenwold (S), Beaver Dam, Swedesboro. 



Coast Strip. — Pt. Pleasant, Baj'head, Toms River, Forked River, Estelville, 

 Piermont, Anglesea, Cold Spring. 



Cape May.— Court House, Cape May (S), Cape May Pt. (S). 



Scirpus robustus Pursh. Salt Marsh Bull-rush. 



PI. XXL, Fig. 7. 



Scirpus robustus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 56. 1814 [Salt marshes and banks of 



rivers — probably N. J.]. 

 Scirpus maritimus Knieskern 34. — Willis 68. — Keller and Brown 65. 

 Scirpus maritimus van niacrostacliyos Britton 264. 



