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West INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Central New York to Michigan; south from 
New Jersey to Florida, west to Arkansas and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Central Prairie region. Shallow*ponds. Mobile County, 
Choctaw Point. Wilcox County (Buckley), June, July; not rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: Jamaica. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eleocharis ochreata (Nees) Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp.79. 1855. PaLe SPIKE-RUSH. 
Eleogenus ochreatus Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2, pt.1:102. 1842. 
Scirpus ocreatus Griseb. F 1. Brit. W. Ind. 570. 1864. 
S. anisochaetus Sauv. Fl, Cub. 174. 1868. 
Chap. FI. ed. 3, 545. : 
“Rhizoma fibrous, stoloniferous; stems low, striate, knotless; sheaths loose, mem- 
branaceous, poiutless; spikelets ovate-oblong, 5 to 15 flowered; glumes tew-ranked, 
elliptical-oblong, bluntish; style bifid; acheninm shining brown, obovate, bicon- 
vex, smooth, nearly as long as the bristles; tubercle small, conical, pointed, about one- 
third as broad as the achenium.” Grisebach. 
West INDIEs, MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, BRAZIL. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia, Florida, Alabama; Rocky 
Mountains, in thermal springs. (Montana, Yellowstone Park.) 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Exposed muddy places, ditches, and in still flowing water. 
Mobile County, Dauphinway, miry pools; West Fowl River, damp sands near the 
shore. Baldwin County, Fly Creek. June to July; not infrequent. Perennial. 
Varies greatly in size and habit of growth, according to locality. In moist sand 
the rhizome is fibrous, tardily stoloniferous; the stem more rigid, 4 to 6 inches high; 
the spikelets half a line wide, ovate, 5 or 6 flowered. In wet places the rhizomes are 
more or less stoloniferous, the stem weak, slender; the spikelets 1 to 2 lines long, 
acute, 15 to 20 flowered. Immersed in still-flowing brooks, the stolons are highly 
proliferous, the floating flaccid stems 2 to 3 ,feef long, forming dense mats; the 
achenes almost black, shining. 
Type locality, Brazilian. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eleocharis olivacea Torr. Ann. Lyc.N. Y. 3:300. 1836. 
BRIGHT-GREEN SPIKE-RUSH. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 575, t.2, f. 1-5. Chap. F1.518. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New England (Mount Desert Island); western 
New York and New Jersey to North Carolina and Florida, west to Mississippi and 
Colorado. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Shaded margins of ponds, ditches. 
Mobile County. Flowers June, July; not rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Pine barrens of New Jersey!; on Long Island near Babylon!; 
Tewksbury pond, Mass., B. D. Greene, Esq.! 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bleocharis capitata (Willd.) R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 225. 1810. 
CaPITATE SPIKE-RUSH. 
Scirpus capitatus Willd. Sp. P]l.1:294. 1795. ; 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 574. Chap. F1.518. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:467. Griseb. 
Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 570. 
TROPICAL ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Maryland to Florida, west to Indiana, Texas, 
New Mexico, and Oregon. 
AvaBAMA: Littoral region. Damp sand near salt water. Mobile County, West 
Fowl River, western shore Mobile Bay. Flowers July; rare. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Virginia inque insulis Caribaeis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bleocharis ovata (Roth) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2:152. 1817. 
OvoIp SPIKE-RUSH. 
Scirpus ovatus Roth, Cat. 1:5. 1797, : 
S. capitatus Walt. Fl. Car. 70. 1788. Not Willd. 
S. obtusus Willd, Enum. 1:76. 1809. 
Eleocharis obtusa Schult. Mant. 2:89, 1824. 
El. Sk.1:77. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 574. Chap. Fl. 518, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:468. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 222. 
ENTRAL EUROPE, ASIA, SIBFRIA. 
Gameates zone to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia and Quebec to British Colum- 
bia; New England, west to Nebraska, south to the Gulf and from Florida to Texas 
and Arkansas. 
