SEDGES, 411 



Alaba:ma : Littoral region, brackish marshes. Bahlwiu County, Bayou La Launch, 

 June, July; rare. Perennial. 



Tyi)e locality : "Hab. in spongiosis Peiiusylvauiae, floret Julio." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cladium effusum (Sw.) Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 374. 18.36. Saw Gkass. 



Schoenus effiisus Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Dec. 19. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chan. Fl. 530. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 476. 



Louisiauian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to southwestern Texas and 

 Arkansas. 



Alaba:\ia: Coast plain. Littoral belt. Deep marshes, fresh or brackish. Mobile 

 County, river swamps. Baldwin County, Bon Secour, saline marshes. July, 

 August; frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : West Indian. Torrey's locality : " Ponds and fresh marshes. Wil- 

 mington and Newbern, N. C, Jilr. Curtis! tj- Mr. Groom!; South Carolina, Elliott; 

 New Orleans and Texas, T. iJrummond." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SCLERIA Berg. Kongl. Acad. Sv.Handl. 26:142, <.<./. .5. 1765.' Nut Rush. 

 About 100 species, perennials, of warmer temperate and tror)ical regions. 

 Scleria triglomerata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 168. 1803. Tall Nut Rcsh. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 558. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 586. Chap. Fl. 531. 



Brazil. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario; New England (Massachusetts), west 

 to Michigan and Minnesota, south to New Jersey, the Carolinas, Florida, Arkansas, 

 Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky. 



Alabama: Over the State, open woods, in light soil. June, July; frequent. 

 Type locality : '"'Hab. in Carolina.'' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scleria oligantha Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 167. 1803. Few-flowered Nut Rush. 



ElLSk. 2:557. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 587. Chap. Fl. 531. Coulter, Contr. Herb. 2 : 476. 

 Cuba. 

 Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, west to Texas. 



Alabama : Mountain region. Central Pine belt. Dry copses. Lee County, Auburn 

 {Baker 4- Earle, oS2) . Tuscaloosa County (^. 2/. .Swiii/i)- May; rare. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in pratensibus sylvaticis Carolinae." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scleria torreyana Walp. Ann. 3 : 696. 1852-53. T()Ruky'.s Nut Rcsh, 



Scleria reticularis Muhl. Gram. 266. 1817. Not Michx. 

 S. laxa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 376. 1836. Not E. Br. 

 Gray, Man. ed. 6, 587. Chap. Fl. 531 ; ed. 3, 559. Coulter, Conti-. Nat. I lerb. 2 : 476. 



Cuba, Mexico to Brazil, Peru. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas. 

 Alabama: Coast plain. Low wet pine barrens. Mobile and Baldwin counties. 

 August, September; not infrequent. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Carolina septentrionali.'' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scleria ciliata Michx. Fl. Am. 2 : 167. 1803. Southkrn Nitt Rush. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 559. Chap. FL 531. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. South Carolina to Florida. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Lower Pine belt and Coast plain. Dry pine bar- 

 rens. Lee County, Auburn {Baker ^ Earle, 580). Mobile County, Grand Bay, Spring- 

 hill. June to August. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina."' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scleria elliottii Chap. Fl. 531. 1860. Elliotts Nut Rush. 



Scleria kirtella var. strigosa Ell. Sk. 2 : 560. 1821-24. 

 Cuba. 

 Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



' N. L. Britten, Revision of the North American species of the genue Scleria, Ann. 

 N. Y. Acad. Sci. vol. 3, pp. 228 to 237. 1885. 



