1889.] NKW-YORK MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 101 



Scirpus maculosus, Vahl. Enum. ii. 247 (1806). 



Texas, Berlandier, 2090 in Herb. Delessert, also in Mexico, 



all according to Mr, Clarke. I have not seen anything from 



North America that I could refer to this species ; No. 2090 of 



Berlandier is E. capitata in both the Torrey and Gray herbaria. 



8. E. OLiVACEA, Torr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. iii. 300 (1836). 



Miry borders of Bristol Pond, Vt., Pringle ; Amhers't, Mass., 

 Jesiip ; Plymouth, Mass., Oakes, Tuckerman ; Dedham, Mass., 

 Hitchings ; North Providence, R. I., Olney ; Tewksbury, Mass., 

 B. D. Greene ; Shore of Lake Ontario, J. A. Paine ; Presque 

 Isle, Erie, Pa., Guttenberg, Garber ; Shore of Bay of Quinte, 

 Canada, Macoun, 1870; near Babylon, L. L, Torrey ; Totten- 

 ville, Staten Island, Leggett ; Lake Mohegan, N. Y., Leggett ; 

 Lawrenceville, N. J., Lanning ; Tom's River and Quaker Bridge, 

 Torrey ; Brown's Mills, Martindale ; Dover, Del., Canby ; St. 

 George, Commons ; marshes on the sea islands, N. C, Curtiss ; 

 Alexandra, Burke Co., Ga., J. B. Ellis ; Santee Canal, S. C, 

 Ravenel ; Deer Island, Miss., Tracy (?), specimens young, 

 perhaps E. maculosa. 



{B) Capitatce. 



9. E. CAPiLLACEA, Kunth, Enum. PI. ii. 139 (1837). 



Seen by Mr. Clarke from Georgia,' Chapman, Herb. Mus. 

 Brit., and from North Carolina, Chapman, Herb. Boissier ; not 

 seen by me from the United States. 



Cuba, Wright, distributed as Anisostachya decipiens. First 

 described from Brazilian specimens. 



A very well marked species with the long, scarious lower 

 glumes of the spikelet enclosing all the rest, only a single nut 

 ripening from each spikelet. 



10. E. ATROPURPUREA (Retz), Kunth, 1. c. 151 (1S37). 

 Scirpus atropurpUT-eus, Retz, Obs. v. 14 (1789 ?). 

 Elcocharis jnultiflora, Chapm., Fl. S. States, 517 (i860). 



For additional synonymy of this wide-spread tropical species 

 see Kunth, 1. c, and Clarke, Journ. Bot. xxv. 269 (1887). 



West Florida, Chapman ; Key West, Dr. John Ridell, 1839, 

 ex herb. C. Mohr ; Blanco, Texas, Reverchon, 1672 ; New 

 Mexico, Wright, 1961, 1930 and 1932 ; Mex. Bound. Survey, 

 1527a in part ; near Greeley, Colo., Greene, in Herb. Gray. 



