SEDGES. 405 



Type locality of J", squarrosa a Toir. : "Swamps; North Carolina to Florida."' Col- 

 lections are cited in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and 

 Louisiana. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Fuirena squarrosa hispida (Ell.) Chap. Fl. 514. 1«60. 



ROUGH-UEADEI) FuiKKNA. 



Fuirena hispida Ell. Sk. 1 : 579. 1817-21. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 579, Gray, Man. ed. 6, 583. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 473. 

 Carolinian and Louisiauiau areas. New York, Kentucky, south to Florida, and 

 west to eastern Texas. 



Alabama: Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Grassy swamps, borders of 

 brooks. Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. July ; frequent. 



Type locality: "Grows in great abundance around ponds in the middle districts 

 of (ieorgia and Carolina, first sent to me from Milledgeville by Dr. Boykin.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HEMIC ARPHA Nees & Am. Edinb. New Ph. Journ. 17 : 263. 1834. 

 About 4 species, annuals; temjjerate and tropical /ones. North America, 2. 



Hemicarpha micrantha (Vahl) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 15 : 104. 1888. 



Hemicakpha. 



Scirpus micrantlius Yahl, Enum. 2 : 254. 1806. 



S. siih-sqiiarrosHs Muhl. Gram. 39. 1817. 



Hemicarpha snbsquarro'^a Nees in ISIart. Fl. Bras. 2, pt. 1 : 61. t. 4.J'. I. 1842. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 583. Chap. Fl. 513. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 120. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 473. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 572. 



West Ixdies, Mexico to Brazil. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. Southern New England west to Michigan, 

 Missouri, and southern Illiuois; south to Florida, and west to Texas, New Mexico, 

 Arizona, and California. 



Alabama: Upper division Coast Pine belt, Coast plain. Low, damp sandy ground, 

 most frequent in Hat open grassy pine barrens. Washington County, Yellowpine, 

 Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Mobile County. May to June; common. 



Type locality : '"Hab. in America meridional! f Richard." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LIPOCARPHA R. Br. App. Tuckey Exp. Congo, 459. 1818. 

 Seven species, tropics of both hemisiiheres. 



Lipocarpha maculata (Michx. ) Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 288. 1836. 



American Lii'ocarpiia. 



Kyllingia maculata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 29. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 55. Gray, Man. ed, 6, 584. Chap. Fl. 513. 



Cuba. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia, North Carolina, I'loiida, 

 and Alabama. 



Alabama: Central Prairie region. Autauga County, Prattville {E. A. Smith). 

 Rare. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina."' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



RYNCHOSPORA Vahl, Euumi. 2 : 229. 1806. 



About 200 species, chiefly of the warmer temperate and tropical regions, mostly 

 American. North America, 44. Perennials.' 



Rynchospora tracyi Britton. Trans. N. Y. Acad. 11 : 84. 18y2. 



Tracy's Hokned Rush. 



Ceratoschoenus capiiatus Chap. Fl. 529. 1860. Not /.'. capitata Roem. & SchuU. 



Louisianian area. Florida and Alabama. 



Alabama: Littoral belt. Brackish swamps. Baldwin County, Josephine, 

 muddy shore of Bayou La Lanuch. June, July ; rare. 



Type locality: "Pine-barren ponds, middle and west Florida. ' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



'N,l!, Britton, List of species of the genera Scirpus and Rvnchospora in North 

 America, Trans. N. Y, Acad. Sci,, vol. 11, pp. 74 to 93. 1892. 



