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Widely distributed in the Eastern United States south of 

 latitude 39 . 



CYPERUS L., Sp. PI. 44. 1753. 

 C. echinatus (Ell.) Wood, Class-Book 734. 1861. 



Hammocks and sand-hammocks ; rather rare, emanuel (gyp) 



MONTGOMERY, DODGE, COFFEE (1455.) 



Widely distributed in the Southeastern United States, but 

 natural range and habitat not well worked out. 



Martindalei Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 15 : 98. 1888. 



Sand-hills and dry pine-barrens. Montgomery, coffee (1462), 

 colquitt. Fl. summer. 



Otherwise known only from the pine-barrens of West Florida 

 and Alabama. C. filiculmis Vahl, a closely related species, 

 is widely distributed in the Eastern United States. 

 C.-cylindricus (Ell.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 6 : 316, 339. 1879. 



Hammocks, rare. Montgomery, coffee (1454). Our speci- 

 mens are scarcely typical, and may represent a distinct species. 



C. ovularis (Mx.) Torr., Ann Lye. N. Y. 3 : 278. 1836. 



bulloch : Dry pine-barrens near Bloys, June 27, 1901 (960). 

 Not seen since, and possibly not indigenous. Grows also 

 in Middle and Northwest Georgia. 

 New York to Missouri, Florida, and Texas. 



C. retrofractus (L.) Torr.; Gray, Man. 519. 1848. 



Sand-hills ; not common, berrien, colquitt. Fl. July-Aug. 



Occurs also in the upper third of the coastal plain, and in 



several places in Middle Georgia. See Bull. Torrey Club 



30: 321-322. 1903. 

 New Jersey to Florida, Arkansas, and Texas, mostly in the 



coastal plain. 



C. Haspan L., Sp. PI. 45. 1753. 



In and near branch-swamps, bulloch, emanuel, tattnall, 



COFFEE, WILCOX, BERRIEN, DOOLY, WORTH, COLQUITT. 



Fl. June— Aug. Also in the upper and lower thirds of the 

 coastal plain, and in Meriwether County (see Bull. Torrey 

 Club 30 : 294. 1903). 



