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Wet muddy places, shores of streams, etc. Common in the 

 Northern and Middle districts, occurs also in the Cape May 

 peninsula. 



Fr. — Mid-July into October; good fruit quite uncommon. 



Middle District.— New Egypt, Delanco (S), Swedesboro, Millville, Mantua 

 (H). 

 Pine Barrens. — Landisville. 

 Cape May.— Nummeytown (S), Cold Spring (OHB). 



Eleocharis tuberculosa (Michx.). Tubercled Spike-rush. 



PI. XVII., Fig. 8. 



Scirpus tuherculosus Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. 30. 1803 [Lower Carolina]. 

 Bleocharis tuberculosa Knieskern 34. — Beck Botany 424. 1833. — Torrey, Ann. 



Lye. N. Y. III. 307. 1836.— Willis 68.— Britton Jour. N. Y. Micros. Soc. 



V. 106. 1889. — Britton 262. — Keller and Brown 62. 



Wet sandy ground throughout the Pine Barrens and Cape 

 May districts, rare and local in the lower part of the Middle 

 district. This is the characteristic Eleocharis of the Pine Bar- 

 rens, taking the place of B. ohtiisa of the Middle district. Its 

 occurrence outside the Pines is limited to the so-called Pine Bar- 

 ren Islands of west Jersey. 



Fr. — ^M id- July to mid- September. 



Middle District. — Shark River, Griffith's Swamp, Centerton (S), Dividing 

 Creek. 



Pine Barrens. — Allaire, Lakehurst, Toms River (S), Island Heights, Forked 

 River, Brindletown, Manahawkin, Mayetta, West Creek, Speedwell (S), 

 White House (S), Bear Swamp, Berlin, Atco, Jackson, Landisville, Ham- 

 monton (S), Parkdale (S), Atsion, Quaker Bridge, Pleasant Mills, Forks of 

 Batsto (S), Egg Harbor City, Cologne, Pancoast (S), Eighth St. (T), Mays 

 Landing (S), Manumuskin (S), Sea Isle Jnc. 



Coasts Strip. — Sherburn's (L). 



Cape ilfa.v.— Cold Spring (S), Bennett, Cape May. 



Eleocharis torreyana Boeckl. Torrey's Spike-rush. 



PL XVIL, Fig. 16. 



Heleocharis Torreyanus Boeckl, Linnjea 36, 440. 1870 [new name for "B. 



microcarpa b ? Uliculmis Torrey," Pine Barrens of N. J.]. 

 Eleocharis microcarpa Willis 68. — Britton Jour. N. Y. Micros. Soc. V. 107. 



1889. — Britton 263. — Keller and Brown 62. 

 Eleocharis microcarpa b ? Ulicuhnis Torrey, Gray's Manual, Ed. I. 525. 1848. 



Restricted to damp sandy spots in the Pine Barrens and upper 

 part of the Cape May district. 



