SEDGES. 393 



Cyperus strigosus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 47. 17.53. Strigose-spiked Cyperus. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 571. Chap. Fl. 507. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herli. 2 : l&l. 



Japan. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario and Xew England, west to Nebraska. 

 South all over the Atlantic States to Florida and Texas; also in Caliiornia. 



Alabama: Over the State. .July to September; frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in paludibus Jamaicae, ^'i^giniae."' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus strigosus robustior Kunth, Enum. 2 : 88. 1837. 



"Spikelets large, elongated, 20 to 30 flowered." 



Louisianian area. Western Tennessee?, Florida, west to Louisiana and Texas. 



Alabama: Open swamps. Mobile County, river marshes. August, September; 

 2 to 3 feet high ; frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "America borealis et ? merid. (Insulae Sandwiceuses, Beechey.)" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus stenolepis Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 263. 1836. Pale Marsh Cyperus. 



Chap. Fl. 507. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 404. 



Loniaianian area. North Carolina to Florida and west to Texas. 



Alabama: Central Pine belt. Coast plain. In grassy swamps. Mobile County, 

 river marshes ; June, hee County {Baker ^- £arle). Perennial. 



Type locality : " Wilmington, N. C., Mr. Curtis!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus dissitiflorus Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 266. 1836 



Spakskly-flowered Cyperus. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 659; ed. 3, 534. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 464. 



Mexico, Brazil (fide Boeckeler). 



Louisianian area. Florida to western Texas. 



Alabama : Coast plain. Rich shaded woods and copses. Mobile County, Dau- 

 phin Island. Baldwin County, Blakely. August and September; infrequent. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality: "Near New Orleans, Hooker!'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus erythrorhizos Mulil. Gram. 20. 1817. Red-rooted Cyperus. 



Cyperus ieiiuifiorus Ell. Sk. 1 : 70. 1817. Not Rottboell. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 571. Chap. Fl. 512. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 465. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario and New England west to Minnesota, 

 south to the Ohio ^'alley, Mi.ssouri, Arkansas, Texas, and from New York to Florida. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley. Central Prairie region to the Coast plain. Borders 

 of swamps. Lauderdale, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Mobile, and Baldwin counties; 

 Frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. ad rivos Pennsylvaniae, floret Aug. — Sept. etiam in Carolina 

 Septen. et Georgia.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus speciosus Vahl, Enum. 2 : 364. 1806. Michaux's Cyperus. 



Cyperus mlchauxianus Schnlt. Mant. 2 : 123. 1824. 



EIL Sk. 1:72. Gray, xMan. ed. 6, 572f Chap. Fl. 507. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 215. 

 Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 465. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern New England, New .Jersey west to 

 ^Iichigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Tennessee, south to Florida and Texas, and 

 In California. 



Alabama: Central Prairie region to the Coast plain. Border of marshes, alluvial 

 ewaiiips. Mobile County, river swamps. Frequent. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in V^irginia." 



Herli. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus engelmanni Stend. Syn. PI. Cyp. 47. 1855. Engelmann's Cyperus. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, .572. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Massachusetts west to Wisconsin. 



Alabama: Banks of Mobile River. Adventive from the Northern States; observed 

 only once. Perennial. 



Tyi)e locality : " St. Louis, Mo." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



