FERNALD. — SCIRPUS EBIOPHORUM. 501 



{H. W. Ravenel) : Florida, Tallahassee, Aug. 12,1895 {Geo. V.Nash, 

 no. 2404); without locality {Chapman) : Georgia {Baldwin) : Alabama 

 {Drummond) : Louisiana {Hale) : Arkansas, southern portion of State, 

 July {F. L. Harvey., no. 17). Passing gradually to the northern 



Var. CYPERiNUS, Gray. Inflorescence ample, the rays stiffer and less 

 pendulous than in the species ; base of involucre less ferruginous ; spike- 

 lets paler, sessile or subsessile in glomerules of 3 or more. — Man. ed. 

 2, 501. S. Eriophorum /3, Torr. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. iii. 331 ; 

 Bockl. Linntea, xxxvi. 732. S. cyperinus, Kunth. Enum. ii. 170; Brit- 

 ton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. xi. 82; Brittou & Brown, 111. Fl. i. 271, 

 f. 636. Eriophorum cyperinum, L. Spec. ed. 2, 77; Bigel. Fl. Bost. 16; 

 Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 582. Tricophorum cyperinum. 

 Pars. Syn. i. 69 ; Pursh, Fl. i. 57 ; Muhl. Gram. 47. — Of more north- 

 ern range than the species, from Maine to Illinois and Kentucky. Maine, 

 Mattawamkeag Lake, Sept. 7, 1897 {31. L. Fernald) ; Fitts Pond, Clif- 

 ton, Sept., 1898 {31. L. Fernald); Mt. Desert Island, Aug., Sept., 

 1889-91 {E.L. Rand, J. H. Redfield) ; North Berwick, Sept., 1896 

 {J. C. Parlin) ; Wells, July 29, 1886 {W. Deane) : New Hampshire, 

 Rye Beach, Aug. 29, 1886 ( W. Deane) : Massachusetts, East Glouces- 

 ter, Aug., 1881 ( C. W. Sioan) ; Sherman's Pond, Waltham, Sept. 3, 

 1853 {iVm. Boott); Round Pond, Woburn, Aug. 16, 1868 {Wm. Boott); 

 bog, Medford, Aug. 19, 1894 {W. P. Rich); Boston, Sept. 8, 1881 

 {0. W. Swan) ; Blue Hills, Aug. 15, 1894 {W. H. 3Ianmng) : Rhode 

 Island, Providence (»S'. T. Olney, Geo. Thurber) : Connecticut, 

 Southington, Aug. 13, 1896 {G. H. Bissell, no. 707), Sept. 11, 1898 

 {Luman Andrews, no. 432, in part): Michigan, Alma, Aug. 24, 1893 

 (C. A. Davis): Illinois, Mound City, Aug., 1862 {Geo. Vasey) : 

 Kentucky, Clear Creek, Bell Co., Sept., 1893 {T. H. Kearney, Jr., 

 no. 428). 



Var. condensatus. Rays of the umbel shortened (only 6 cm. or 

 less in length) : glomerules of many spikelets short-peduncled or sub- 

 sessile in a few dense masses 2 to 5 cm. in diameter. — 5". Eriophorum ^, 

 Torr. 1. c. 331 ? — Marshes, Hammond's Pond, Newton, Massachusetts, 

 Aug. 23, 1854 {Wm. Boott); also at Seal Harbor, Mt. Desert Island, 

 Maine, Sept. 4, 1891 (/. H. Redfield) ; Lynnfield, Mass., July 13, 1879 

 {H. A. Young) ; Everett, Mass., Aug. 6, 1892 {W. P. Rich). 



Var. Andre^wsii. Rays of umbel elongated and pendulous as in the 

 species: spikelets oblon^r, 7 to 10 mm. long, mostly in glomerules of 

 from 3 to 15. — Southington, Connecticut, Sept. 11, 1898 {Luman An- 

 drews, no. 432, in part). 



