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Plymouth, Mass., Oakes, Tuckerman; Providence, R. I., Olney; 

 Long Pond, Wading River, Long Island, Miller, Knieskern ; near 

 New Dorp, Staten Island, Britton ; pine barrens of New Jersey, 

 Parker ; near Savannah, Ga., Baldwin (the type specimen) ; 

 Florida, Chapman, Rugel ; Walton Co., Fla., Curtiss, 3082 ; 

 Hibernia, Fla., Canby. 



30. E. noLANDERi, A. Gray, Proc Amer. Acad. vii. 392 (i868). 

 Sequoia Grove, Mariposa Co., Cal., Bolander, 4689 ; " in the 



Sierra Nevada, near snow," Greene, fide Watson, Bot. Cal. ii. 

 222 ; but the specimen in Herb. Gray from that station is too 

 young for determination. Closely allied to the last. 



31. E. TRicosTATA, Torr. Ann. Lye. 1. c. 311 (1836). 

 Newcastle, N. Y., C. A. Hexamer ; Wading River, Long 



Island, Miller ; Quaker Bridge, N. J., Knieskern ; Tinicum, 

 Delaware Co., Penn., A. H. Smith ; Santee Canal, S. C, Rav- 

 enel ; Georgia, LeContc ; Florida, Chapman, Rugel. 



32. E. ALiiiDA, Torr. Ann. Lye. 1. c. 304 (1836). 



Eastville, Va., Canby ; Piney Point, Md., Vasey ; Sullivan's 

 Island, S. C, Ravenel ; Georgia and Florida, Baldwin ; Appa- 

 lachicola, Fla., Chapman ; shores of St. John's River, Curtiss, 

 3072 ; near New Orleans and Barataria, La., Ingalls ; Herbarium 

 Texano-Mexicanum, Berlandier, 3226, 2425 and 995 ; valley of 

 the lower Rio Grande, Buckley ; Plaqueminas, La., Langlois, 

 146a. 



Var. BERLANDiERi (Clarke). Stouter than in the type, with 

 longer heads, and the tubercle slightly more rostrate. 

 Mr. Clarke considers this a species. 



Berlandier, Herb. Tex.-Mex. 995, 2435 ; Nueces Bay, six 

 miles north of Corpus Christi, Texas, Ravenel. 



^;^. E. TENUIS (Willd.), Schultes, Mant. ii. 89 (1824). 



Scirpus tenuis, Willd., Enum. PI. Hort. Berol. i. 76 (1809). 

 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Macoun; Rhode Island, Olney, and 

 southward through the Middle and Southern States, extending 

 west to Dakota,, as at Devil's Lake, Nicollet, and Lake Winni- 

 peg, Macoun ; and to Texas, E. Hall, 698 ; Langlois, 1684. 

 34. E. ACUMINATA (Muhl), Nees, Linncxa, ix. 294 (1835). 



Scirpus acuminatus, Muhl. Gram. 27 (1817). 



Eleocharis compressa, Sulliv. Sill. Jour. (I.) xlii. 50 (1842). 



