82 Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 



Matanzas, Pinar del Rio; Isle of Pines; southeastern United States; 



Santo Domingo." 



1 68. Selena Curtissii Britton. 



? Scleria paiuiflora effusa Clarke in Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, II, ipoo, p. 143. 

 Scleria Curtissii Britton, Small, Flora of the Southeastern United States, 1903, 



pp. 200 and 1398. 



Reported by Britton (/. c.) : "Savannas, Pinar del Rio and Isle of 



Pines; Florida." 



169. Scleria microcarpa Nees. 



Scleria microcarpa Nees, I-innaea, IX, 1834, p. 302. 



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



Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, VIII, 1872, p. 154. Not A. Richard. 

 Scleria microcarpa foliosa Clarke in Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, II, 1900, p. 149. 



"River banks, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines; Porto Rico, 

 Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Trinidad, continental tropical America." 

 Britton, op, cit., p. 491. 



170. Scleria verticillata Muhlenberg. 

 Scleria verticillata Muhlenberg, Willdenow, Species Plantarum, IV, 1805, p. 317. 

 "Pine-lands, Pinar del Rio, Isle of Pines; eastern United States; 

 New Providence, Bahamas." Britton, op. cit., p. 493. 



171. Scleria hiitella Swartz. 



Scleria nutans Kunth, Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium, II, 1837, p. 352. 

 Scleria hirtella Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 

 dentalis, 1788, p. 19. 



"Moist grounds, Oriente, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio, Isle of 

 Pines; southern United States, Haiti, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Trini- 

 dad, continental tropical America, tropical Africa." Britton, op. cit., 



P- 493. * 



172. Scleria lithosperma (L,innaeus) Swartz. 



Scleria lithospermus Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 51. 



Scleria lithosperma Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 18. 

 Scleria filiformis Swartz, op. cit., p. 19. 

 Scleria lithosperma filiformis Britton, Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 



III, 1885, p. 231. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 8, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 486. General 

 Distribution: "Woodlands and thickets, all provinces Cuba; 

 Florida, Bahamas, West Indies, tropical continental America, Old 

 World tropics." Britton, op. cit., p. 493. 



