Vol. 43 No. 9 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
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SEPTEMBER, 1916 
Studies of West Indian plants—VIII 
NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON 
44. FURTHER RECORDS OF JAMAICA SEDGES* 
CYPERUS FUGAX Liebm. Vid. Selks. Skr. V. 2: 196. 1851 
Savanna, Belle Vue, near Spanish Town (Harris 12183). 
DistRIBUTION: Mexico and Guatemala. 
CYPERUS CYPEROIDES (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 3: 333. 1898 
Scirpus cyperoides L. Mant. 181. 1771. 
Maviscus Sieberianus Nees, Linnaea 9: 286. 1834. 
Maviscus cyperoides Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 164. 1900. Not M, 
cyperoides A. Dietr. 
Belle Vue, near Spanish Town, in wet hollows in pastures 
(Harris 12045); previously collected in Jamaica by Hart and by 
Wullschlaegel. 
Distripution: Trinidad. Native of the Old World tropics. 
Cyperus NANUS Willd. 
In Bull. Dept. Agric. Jamaica 5: Suppl. 1, 9, I noted Mr. C. B. 
Clarke’s record of this species from Jamaica, as based on the same 
specimen (March 13) as his record of Mariscus gracilis Vahl 
(Cyperus granularis [Desf.] Britton), and I subsequently ascer- 
tained that this specimen preserved in the Kew herbarium is 
* Bull. ae Agric. scree Suppl. 1. 1907. Bull. Torrey Club 35: 568, 569. 
1909. Ibid. 41: I, 2. 
[The ieieek for raan (43: 397-440. pl. 22, 23) was issued August 22, 1916.] 
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