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Middle District.— Repaupo, Center Square. 



Pine Barrels.— Near Williamstown, Woodmansie, Batsto, Bamber, Mana- 

 hawkin, Pasadena, Chatsworth, Speedwell, Hanmionton, Egg Harbor City, 

 Woodbine. 



Cajie May. — Bennett. 



Xyris elata Chapm. Chapman's Yellow-eyed Grass. 

 Xyris elata Chapmann, FI. So. States. 501. i860 [W. Florida]. 



Rare and local, restricted to the lower part of the Cape May 

 peninsula. The very large cylindrical head makes this species 

 conspicuous. 



It was first detected in the State by Mr. Chas. S. Williamson. 



Dr. John K. Small identifies this plant as elata in a letter to 

 Mr. Bayard Long, while specimens from the same spot, which I 

 sent to Dr. B. h. Robinson, are regarded by him as rather aber- 

 rant "X. smalliana." Judging from the lack of any connecting 

 forms and the marked difference between these and X. congdoni 

 as it occurs in New Jersey, I am inclined to adopt Dr. Smdll's 

 view of their relationship. 



Fl. — Late July to late September. 



Mature Heads. — Late August, persisting into November. 

 Cape May. — Bennett. 



Xyris carolinlana Walter. Carolina Yellow-eyed Grass. 



Xyris Caroliniana Walter, Fl. Car. 69. 18 [Carolina]. 



Xyris Caroliniana Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. I. 33. 1814. — Knieskern 33. — Willis 

 66. — Gray, Man. Ed. I. 513. 1848. — Britton 247. — ^Keller and Brown 91. 

 Xyris brevifolia Barton, Fl. Phila. I. gy. 1818. 

 Xyris Aexunsa var. pusilla Britton 247. 

 Xyris montana Taylor, Torreya 1909, 260. 



Frequent throughout the Pine Barren, Middle and Cape May 

 districts. 



Easily distinguished from X. torta by the absence of a bulbous 

 swelling at the base of the plant. Both species vary in size, and 

 very minute examples, only a few inches high, are responsible 

 for the records of X. montana. Mr. Norman Taylor tells me 

 that the Torrey specimens recorded by Dr. Britton and himself 

 and by Mr. Heinrich Ries,* as montana (= pusilla) are caro- 



*Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 19. 38. 

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