PLANiTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 283 



Common in bogs and wet places in the Pine Barren, and locally 

 in the Northern and Middle districts. 

 Fr. — ^Early July to early September. 



Middle District. — Griffith's Swamp, Lindenwold (S), Gloucester, Tomlin, 

 Yorktown, Dividing Creek. 



Pine Barrens. — Browns Mills, West Creek (S), Tuckerton, Chatsworth, 

 Speedwell (S), Jones Mill (S), White Horse (S), Bear Swamp (S), Clemen- 

 ton, Waterford, Penbryn (S), Sicklerville (S), Winslow, Landisville, Park- 

 dale (S), Egg Harbor City, Quaker Bridge (NY). 



Coast Strip. — Atlantic Citj^ (possibly from the mainland, opposite). 



Scleria minor (Britt.). Slender Nut-rush. 



Scleria triglomcrata minor Britton 111. Flora I. 282. [So. N. J.] (new name 



for S. f. gracilis Br.). 

 Scleria triglomcrata var. gracilis Britton Ann. N. Y. Acad. HI. 230. 1883 



[Leeds Pt., Haddonfield, Quaker Br.].— Britton 268. 



Apparently restricted to the swamps of the Pine Barrens and 

 locally in the Cape May district and in Long- Island. 

 Fr. — Late June to late August. 



Middle District.— Griffith's Swamp (NB), Dividing Creek. 



Pine Barrens — Forked River, Bamber, Pasadena. Manahawkin, Chatsworth, 

 Speedwell (S), Quaker Bridge (Britton), Buena Vista (T), Main Road Sta. 

 (T), Landisville, Hammonton, Leeds Pt. (Britton). 



Cape May. — Bennett, Whitesboro (S). 



Scleria reticularis Michx. Reticulated Nut-rush. 



Scleria reticularis Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. II. 167. 1803 [Carolina]. — Pursh, 

 Fl. Am. Sept. I. 45. 1814.— Gray Man. Ed. I. 534. 1848. 



Only known from the Cape May district; apparently quite 

 rare. Mbst of the records of this species in our region refer to 

 the next. 



Fr. — Early August to mid-September. 



Cape May. — Bennett. 



Scleria reticularis torreyana (Walp.). Torrey's Nut-rush. 

 PI. XIX., Fig. 7. 



Scleria Torreyana Walp, Ann. III. 696. 1852-3 [New Jersey, Long Island] 

 (new name for S. laxa Torr., Gray Man. 534). — Britton 268. — Keller and 

 Brown 69. 



Scleria laxa Torrev Ann. Lye. N. Y. HI. 443. 1836. — Knieskern 35. — Willis 

 69. 



Scleria reticularis pubescens Keller and Brown 69. 



