JENKS] HABITAT BY STATES 1029 
Arizona. Not known (letter of J. W. Toumey, Tucson, Arizona, 
December 7, 1898). 
ARKANSAS. Not in an extensive collection made by Prof. F. L. 
Harvey (letter of Jerome McNeill, Fayetteville, Arkansas, December 
21, 1898). Charles Pickering says (History of Plants, Boston, 1879, 
p- 772) that Nuttall observed it along the Arkansas river. It also 
oceurs along the Mississippi. 
Catirornia. Not known (letter of J. Burt Davy, Berkeley, Califor- 
nia, December 6, 188). 
Cotorapo. Not. known; it was twice introduced but failed to 
grow (letter of C. S. Crandall, Fort Collins, Colorado, December 12, 
1898). However, the Indians gathered it near Denver in 1872. 
’ Conyecticur. Common near New Haven (letter of Alex. W. Evans, 
New Haven, Connecticut, January 3, 1899). It grows also in the 
brackish coastal marshes which are submerged most of the time, and 
also along Connecticut river, as at Essex. 
DeLawark. Catalogued by Tatnall as being ‘‘ very common” in 
‘ditches and muddy banks of streams” in Neweastle county (letter of 
W. H. Bishop, Newark, Delaware, December 12,1898). Featherston- 
haugh (A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor, London, 1847, vol. 1, p. 
180) says it is very common near Newport. Lamson-Scribner (Useful 
and Ornamental Grasses, p. 95) asserts that it is abundant in Delaware 
river below Philadelphia, where it is always called ‘* the reeds.” 
Disrricr oF CoLtumpra. Abundant along the Potomac, covering 
areas of many acres (letter of F. Lamson-Scribner, Washington, April 
25, 1899). 
Frormpa. Very abundant. It occurs in deep ponds in Columbia 
and Suwannee counties. ‘‘] think I have also seen it in Orange, Lake, 
and Sumter counties, together with several others” (letter of P. H. 
Rolfs, biologist and horticulturist, Florida Agricultural College and 
Experiment Station, Lake City, Florida, December 10, 1898). Picker- 
ing (op. cit., p. 771) says that Pursh received a specimen of the plant 
from Florida. MacCauley (Seminole Indians of Florida, in Fifth 
Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology, p. 504) says that the Seminole 
Indians gather in the swamps all the rice they need. 
Geroreta. Grows in Clark county and elsewhere in small quanti- 
ties (letter of John P. Campbell, Athens, Georgia, April 13, 1899). 
Ipano. Not known, and probably not found west of the Rocky 
mountains (letter of L. F. Henderson, Moscow, Idaho, December 11, 
1898). 
IuuiNors. Quite common in Carroll county, Bluff lake in Union 
county, and in ponds formed by Illinois river in Peoria and Fulton 
counties (letter of G. P. Clinton, Urbana, Illinois, May 3, 1899). It 
is also very abundant (one thousand acres) in Grass lake, Lake county 
(letter of L. A. Paddock, Grass lake, Lake county, Llinois, January 
