SEDGES. 411 



ALABAMA : Littoral region, brackish marshes. Baldwin County, Bayou La Launch. 

 June, July; rare. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in spongiosis Penusylvaniae, floret Julio." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cladium effusum (Sw.) Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 374. 1836. SAW GRASS. 



Sckoenus effusus Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 19. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 530. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 476. 



Louisiaiiian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to southwestern Texas and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain, Littoral belt. Deep marshes, fresh or brackish. Mobile 

 County, river swamps. Baldwin County, Bon Secour, saline marshes. July, 

 August; frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: West Indian. Torrey's locality : " Ponds and fresh marshes. Wil- 

 mington and Newbern, N. C., Mr. Curtis! <J ;> Mr. Groom!; South Carolina, Elliott; 

 New Orleans and Texas, T. Drummond." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SCLERIA Berg. Kongl. Acad. Sv. Handl. 26 : 142, t. 4,f. 5. 1765. ' NUT RUSH. 

 About 100 species, perennials, of warmer temperate and tropical regions. 

 Scleria triglomerata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 168. 1803. TALL NUT RUSH. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 558. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 586. Chap. Fl. 531. 



BRAZIL. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario; New England (Massachusetts), west 

 to Michigan and Minnesota, south to New Jersey, the Carolinas, Florida, Arkansas, 

 Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky. 



ALABAMA: Over the State, open woods, in light soil. June, July; frequent. 

 Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scleria oligantha Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 167. 1803. FEW-FLOWERED NUT RUSH. 

 Ell. Sk. 2 : 557. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 587. Chap. Fl. 531. Coulter, Contr. Herb. 2 : 476. 

 CUBA. 

 Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region, Central Pine belt. Dry copses. Lee County, Auburn 

 (Baker $ Earle, 582). Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). May; rare. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in pratensibus sylvaticis Carolinae." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scleria torreyana Walp. Ann. 3 : 696. 1852-53. TORREY'S NUT RUSH. 



Scleria reticularis Mnhl. Gram. 266. 1817. Not Michx. 

 S. laxa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 376. 1836. Not R. Br. 

 Gray, Man. ed. 6, 587. Chap. Fl. 531 ; ed. 3, 559. Coulter, Contr. Nat. I Ferb. 2 : 476. 



CUBA, MEXICO TO BRAZIL, PERU. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas. 

 ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low wet pine barrens. Mobile and Baldwin counties. 

 August, September; not infrequent. 

 Type locality: " Hab. in Carolina septentrionali." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scleria ciliata Michx. Fl. Am. 2 : 167. 1803. SOUTHERN NUT RUSH. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 559. Chap. Fl. 531. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. South Carolina to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower Pine belt and Coast plain. Dry pine bar- 

 rens. Lee County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle, 580). Mobile County, Grand Bay, Spring- 

 hill. June to August. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scleria elliottii Chap. Fl. 531. 1860. ELLIOTTS NUT RUSH. 



Scleria hirtella var. strigosa Ell. Sk. 2 : 560. 1821-24. 

 CUBA. 

 Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



1 N. L. Britton, Revision of the North American species of the genue Scleria, Ann. 

 N. Y. Acad. Sci. vol. 3, pp. 228 to 237. 1885. 



