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Eriophorum viridi-carinatum (Engelm.) Fernald (green-/ 



keeled). 

 Eriophorum polystachion of most American authors in part, 



not L. 

 Eriophorum polystachion L., var. latifolium Gray. 



Bogs and wet meadows. Rare in New London County: 

 Groton and Gris wold (Graves). Occasional elsewhere. June. 



Eriophorum virginicum L. 



Frequent. Wet meadows, bogs and sphagnum swamps. 

 Aug. — Sept. 



The var. album Gray (white) is occasionally seen. 



HEMICARPHA Nees & Arn. 



Hemicarpha micrantha (Vahl) Pax (small-flowered). 

 Hemicarpha subsquarrosa Nees. 



.. Rare. Wet alluvium along the banks of streams : Enfield 

 (Andrews & Bissell), East Windsor, Hartford and Southing- 

 ton (Bissell), Bloomfield (N. Coleman), Oxford (H. C. 

 Beardslee). Aug. — Sept. 



RYNCHOSPORA Vahl. Beak Rush. 



Rynchospora macrostachya Torr. (long-spiked). 



Rynchospora cornicidata Gray, var. macrostachya Britton. 

 Horned Rush. 



Rare or local. Sphagnum bogs and shallow water of 

 ponds: Groton and East Lyme (Graves), Guilford (G. H. 

 Bartlett), Monroe (Eames), Woodbury (Harger). Aug. — 

 Sept. 



Rynchospora fusca (L.) Ait. f. (dusk)^). 



Rare. Sphagnum bogs or swampy meadows : Thompson 

 (Weatherby), Groton, Waterford and East Lyme (Graves), 

 Griswold and Woodbury (Harger), Monroe (Eames). July 

 — Sept. 



Rynchospora alba (L.) Vahl (white). 



Occasional or frequent. Peat swamps and open springy 

 bogs. Aug. — Sept. 



