SEDGES. 405 



Type locality of F, sqnarrosa a Torr. : "Swainps; North Carolina to Florida." Col- 

 lections are cited in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and 

 Louisiana. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Fuireiia squarrosa hispida (Ell.) Chap. Fl. 514. 1860. 



ROUGH-HEADED FUIKKNA. 



Fuirena hispida Ell. Sk. 1 : 579. 1817-21. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 579. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 583. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 473. 



Carolinian and Louisianiaii areas. New York, Kentucky, south to Florida, and 

 west to eastern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Grassy swamps, borders of 

 brooks. Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. July ; frequent. 



Type locality: " Grows in great abundance around ponds in the middle districts 

 of Georgia and Carolina, first sent to me from Milledgeville by Dr. Boykin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HEMIC ARPHA Nees & Am. Edinb. New Ph. Journ. 17 : 263. 1834. 

 About 4 species, annuals j temperate and tropical /ones. North America, 2. 



Hemicarpha micrantha (Vahl) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 15 : 104. 1888. 



HEMICARPHA. 



Scirpus micranthus Vahl, Enum. 2 : 254. 1806. 



S. stibsqnarrostis Muhl. Gram. 39. 1817. 



Hemicarpha subsquarrosa Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2, pt. 1 : 61. t. 4,f. 1. 1842. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 583. Chap. Fl. 513. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2:120. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 473. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 572. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England west to Michigan, 

 Missouri, and southern Illinois; south to Florida, and west to Texas, New Mexico, 

 Arizona, and California. 



ALABAMA : Upper division Coast Pine belt, Coast plain. Low, damp sandy ground, 

 most frequent in Hat open grassy pine barrens. Washington County, Yellowpine, 

 Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Mobile County. May to June; common. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America meridional!? Richard." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LIPOC ARPHA R. Br. App. Tuckey Exp. Congo, 459. 1818. 

 Seven species, tropics of both hemispheres. 



Lipocarpha maculata (Michx. ) Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 288. 1836. 



AMERICAN LIPOCARPHA. 



Kyllingia maculata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 29. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 :55. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 584. Chap. Fl. 513. 



CUBA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, 

 and Alabama. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Autauga County, Prattville (E. A. Smith). 

 Rare. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. .in Carolina." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



RYNCHOSFORA Vahl, Eiium. 2 : 229. 1806. 



About 200 species, chiefly of the warmer temperate and tropical regions, mostly 

 American. North America, 44. Perennials. 1 



Rynchospora tracyi Britton. Trans. N. Y. Acad. 11 : 84. 18y2. 



TRACY'S HORNED RUSH. 



Ceratoschoenus capitatus Chap. Fl. 529. 1860. Not R. capitata Roern. & Schult. 



Louisiauian area. Florida and Alabama. 



ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Brackish swamps. Baldwin County, Josephine, 

 mnddy shore of Bayou La Launch. June, July ; rare. 



Type locality: "Pine-barren ponds, middle and west Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



1 N. L. Britton, List of species of the genera Scirpus and Rynchospora in North 

 America, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, pp. 74 to 93. 1892. 



