Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 81 



follows: "Southeastern United States, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio, and 

 Isle of Pines, Cuba." 



163. Mariscus jamaicensis (Crantz) Britton. 



Cladium jamaicense Crantz, Institutiones Rei Herbariae, I, 1766, p. 362. 

 Cladium effusum Torrey, Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 



III. 1856, p. 374. 

 Mariscus jamaicensis Britton, in Britton & Brown, Illustrated Flora, Ed. II, I, 



1913. P- 348 



Marshy soil at edge of pond two miles east of Nueva Gerona, 

 May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 49. General Distribution: In 

 swamps, from Virginia to Florida and Texas, and rather widely 

 distributed in the West Indies. 



Note. — The treatment of Scleria has been based on the article by 

 Britton, "The Genus Scleria Berg in Cuba." Bull. Torrey Bot, 

 Club, XLII, 1915, pp. 487-494. 



164. Scleria pterota Presl. 



Scleria pterota Presl, in Oken, Isis, XXI, 1828, p. 268. 



Scleria pratensis Nees, Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, II, (I), 1843, p. 179. 



Scleria Otlonis Boeckeler, Linnaea, XXXVIII, 1874, p. 490. 



Reported by Britton {op. cit., p. 490) from Cuba, Isle of Pines, Haiti, 

 St. Thomas, Barbadoes, Jamaica, and continental tropical America. 



165. Scleria Wiightiana Boeckeler. 



Scleria elata C. Wright, in Sauvalle, Anales del Academia de Ciencias Medicas, 



Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, VIII, 1872, p. 153. Not Thwaites. 

 Scleria Wrightiana Boeckeler, Flora, 65, 1882, p. 79. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 17, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 235. 

 General Distribution: "Pine-lands and savannas, Pinar del Rio and 

 Isle of Pines. Endemic." — Britton, op. cit., p. 490. 



166. Scleria setuloso-ciliata Boeckeler. 

 Scleria setuloso ciliata Boeckeler, Flora, LXV, 1882, p. 30. 



Reported by Britton (/. c): "Wet situations, Matanzas, Havana, 

 Isle of Pines; Guatemala." 



167. Scleria ciliata Michaux. 



Scleria ciliata Michaux, Flora Boreali-Americana, II, 1803, p. 167. 

 Scleria Elliottii Chapman, Flora of the Southern U. S., i860, p. 531- 



Reported by Britton (/. c): "Barrens and pine-lands, Santa Clara. 



