28o REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Apparently very rare, and known only from swamps along 

 the railroad northwest of Woodbine, Cape May County, where 

 it was collected by Mr. Stewardson Brown August 30, 1900, and 

 from Bennett, Cape May County, B. Long, August 11, 191 1. 



Not previously known from New Jerse)'. 



'pr. — August 30 achenes mature; some scales gone. 



Pine Barrens. — Woodbine. 

 Cape May. — Bennett. 



Rynchospora axillaris (Lam:). Capitate Beaked-rush. 

 PI. XVIII., Fig. 8. 



Schoenus axillaris Lamarck, Tabl. Encycl. I. 137. 1791. 



Rynchospora cephalantha Knieskern 35. — Willis 69. — Gray Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



III. 218. 183s. 

 Rynchospora axillaris Britton 267. — Keller and Brown 67. 



Bogs in the Pine Barrens; rare. First found in the State by 

 Dr. Torrey. 



Fr. — ^Late July to mid-September. 



Pine Barrens. — Manchester (C), Bamber, Chatsworth, Jones Mill (S), 

 Speedwell, Quaker Bridge, Atsion (P), Parkdale, Hammonton, Batsto (P), 

 Egg Harbor City (P). 



Rynchospora avillaris microcephala Britton. Small-headed Beaked-rush. 



Rynchospora axillaris var. microcephala Britton Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. XL 

 89. 1892 [Monmouth Co., N. J.]. 



Pine Barren bogs ; rre. Dr. Britton described this form from 



one of Dr. Knieskern's specimens, the latter apparently not dis-* 



tinguishing it from; the last. 



Fr. — ^Late July to. mid-Septen:ilber. 



Pine Barrens.- — Speedwell, Parkdale. 



Rynchospora fusca (L..). Brown Beaked-rush. 

 PI. XVIIL, Pig. 6. 



Schoenus fuscus Linnaeus Sp. PI. Ed. 2. 1664. 1763 [Switzerland, England 



and Italy]. 

 Rhynchospora fusca Knieskern 34. — ^Willis 69. — Gray Ann. Lye. X. Y. III. 



215. 1835. — Britton 267. — Keller and Brown 68. 



Bogs of the Pine Barren and Cape May districts frequent. 

 Fr. — Late June to early September. 



