2S2 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Discovered by the writer in a bog- near Bennett, Cape May 

 County, August 4. 1907. Previously not knoAvn from north of 

 North CaroHna. 



Fr. — Probably July. Later specimens show few intact pani- 

 cles. 



Cape May. — Bennett. 



CLADIUM P. Browne. 



Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.). Twig Rush. 



PL XIX., Fig. 2. 



Scliocnus mariscoides Muhlenberg, Gram. 4. 1817 [Pennsylvania]. 

 Cladium mariscoides Knieskern 35. — Torrej', Am. Lye. N. Y. III. 372. 1836. 

 —Willis 69.— Britton 268.— Keller and Brown 68. 



Common in wet bog's or marshes in the Northern, Pine Barren, 

 Coast and Cape May districts. 

 Fr. — ^Mid-July into October. 



Pine Barrens.— Toms River, Forked River (NB), Bamber, Speedwell, 

 Chatsworth, Berlin, White Horse (S), Cedar Brook, Main Road Sta. (T), 

 Eighth St. (T), Parkdale, Batsto, Quaker Bridge (NB), Egg Harbor City, 

 Estelville, Dennisville (P). 



Coast Strip. — Pt. Pleasant, Spray Beach (L), Beach Haven Terrace (L), 

 opposite Ocean City, Ocean View. 



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



SCLERIA Berg. 



Key to the species. 



a. Spikelets in a terminal, or a terminal and 1-3 smaller lateral stalked 

 clusters. 



b. Achene smooth and shining. 



c. 2 mm. high. Plant 4.5-9 dm. tall. .V. triglomerata, p. 282 



cc. I mm. high. Plant more delicate, 3-6 dm. tall. S. minor^ p. 283 

 bb. Achene irregularly reticulate. 



c. Lobes of hypogynium emarginate or cleft, somewhat obtuse, 



achene 1-1.5 mm. 5. reticularis, p. 283 



cc. Lobes acute or acuminate, achene 2-2.5 mm., plant taller and more 



lax. S. r. torreyana, p. 283 



bbb. Achene papillose. 5. pauciftora, p. 284 



aa. Spikelets in several, separate, sessile, somewhat whorled clusters. 



5. verticillata. p. 284 



Scleria triglomerata Michx. Nut-rush. 



PI. XIX., Fig. 6. 



Scleria triglomerata Michaux. Fl. Bor. .-Xm. II. 168. 1803 [Carolina]. — 

 Knieskern 35. — Willis 69. — Britton 268. — Keller and Brown 68. 



