PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 271 



Common all along the coast and up the bay shore, in salt 

 marshes. 



Fr. — Mid-July to earl}- September. 



Maritime. — Swimming River (NB), Deal, Spring Lake (NB), Asbury 

 Park (S), Barnegat Pier, Seaside Park, Forked River, Beach Haven Terrace 

 (L), Absecon, Atlantic City (S-), Ocean City, Stone Harbor, Anglesea, Wild- 

 wood, Holly Beach, Cold Spring, Cape May, Cape May Pt., Green Creek, 

 Dias Creek (S), Sluice Creek (S), So. Dennis. 



Scirpus robustus paludosus (A. Nelson.). Pale Marsh Bull-rush. 



Scirpiis paludosus A. Nelson. Bull. Torr. Club. XXVI. 5. 1899 [Granger, 

 Wyo.]. 



With the preceding, but not common. 



I am not satisfied that this is identical with Nelson's species, 

 but until more material is available its status cannot be positively 

 determined. 



Maritime. — Deal. Seaside Park. Cold Spring (S). 



Scirpus fluviatilis (Torr.). River Bull-rush. 

 PI. XXI. Fig. 8. 



Scirpus maritimus xds. fluviatilis Torrey, x^nn. Lye. N. Y. III. 324. 1836 



[Western N. Y. and the Missouri above St. Louis]. 

 Scirpus fluviatilis Britton 265.— Keller and Brown 65. 

 Scirpus macrostachyos Barton, Fl. Phila. I. 35. 1818. 



Lower part of the INIiddle district along the Delaware River. 

 Fr. — Early July to early September; flowering culms appar- 

 ently quite rare, or frequently only at certain stations. 



Middle District.— Fensauken, Cooper's Creek, Mickleton = Old Mans 

 Creek, Swedesboro. 



Scirpus atrovirens Muhl. Dark-green Bull-rush. 



PI. XX., Fig. 9- 



Scirpus atrovirens "Muhlenberg." Willdenow Enum. Hort. Berol. 79. 1809 

 [North America].— ?Barton Fl. Phila. I. 35- 1818.— Torrey Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y. III. 326. 1836. — Britton 265. — Keller and Brown 65. 



Common in wet meadows in the Northern, and southward in 

 the IVIiddle district. Rare and probably introduced in the Pine 

 Barrens. Specimens from Yorktown and Winslo\A- seem' to 

 represent the form 5. georgianus of R. M. Harper. 



Fr. — Late June to early August. 



