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‘ eet and Louisianian areas. Shores of Delaware, Maryland to Florida, west 
o Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast Pine belt. Margin of springs and brooks. Mobile County, Spring- 
hill. June to August; rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Von Bosc aus Nord-America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eleocharis tuberculosa (Michx.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2: 152. 1817. 
LaRGE-TUBERCLED SPIKE-RUSH. 
Soirpus tuberculosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:30. 1803. 
“ ee Sk. 1:78. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 574. Chap. Fl. 515. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
Carolinian to Louisianian area. Southern Massachusetts to New Jersey, along the 
coast to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. : 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Littoral region, wet wiry places. Autauga County, 
Prattville. Washington County, Yellowpine, Mobile and Baldwin counties; com- 
mon. July to September. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Carolina inferiore.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bleocharis vivipara Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 283. 1827. SPROUTING SPIKE-RUSH. 
Eleocharis prolifera Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 442. 1836. Not Torr. J. c. 316. 
Kunth, Enum. 2: 146, Chap. F1. 516, in part. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. South Carolina and Florida. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphichills. Coast plain, miry marginof ditches and pools. Lee 
County, Auburn (Baker §- Farle, 564.) Mobile, Dauphinway, June, July; frequent. 
Perennial. 
Easily confounded with EF. campitotricha, with which it is not rarely associated ; 
readily distinguished by the more oblong-obovate, pale, less strongly costate, smooth- 
ish nut, and the short loose sheaths, lacerate at the top. 
Type locality not ascertained; Kunth’s locality: ‘ Carolina ad margines paludum.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Hleocharis camptotricha Sauv. Fl. Cub.173. 1868. HAIRLIKE SPIKE-RUSH. 
Eleocharis prolifera Torr. Aun. Lyc. N. ¥.316. 1836.(?) 
Rhizoma descendent, fibrous; stems numerous, filiform, striate, subtriangular, 
sulcate; sheaths hyaline with the opening oblique, the head compressed, few- 
flowered; scales about triseriate, ovate, obtuse, brown-hyaline on the sides, with a 
green keel; stamens 2 or3; achenium milky-white, roundish-oblong, triangular, the 
angles strongly pitted; tubercle short-conical; style trifid, long; bristles 5 or 6, 
retrorsely scabrous, unequal, double the length of the achenium. Easily distin- 
guished from its allies by the white pitted and striated achenium. 
CuBa. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, west to 
Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain, border ditches, ponds, exsiccated places. Mobile County. 
June, July; not frequent. Perenniak 
In dense tufts; spikes rarely proliferous. 
Type locality: ‘On the borders of lagoons. Pinar del Rio.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bleocharis microcarpa Torr. Ann. Lyc.N. ¥.3:312. 1836. 
SMALL-FRUITED SPIKE-RUSH, 
Chap. F1.517. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 468. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Maryland, southern New Jersey to Florida, 
west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. 
Shallow ponds and ditches. Montgomery County (G, McCarthy). Wileox County 
(Buckley). Mobile and Baldwin counties. July; not infrequent. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘* Wet places. New Orleans. Dr. Ingalls.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bleocharis tenuis (Willd.) Schult. Mant. 2:89. 1824. SLENDER SPIKE-RUSH. 
’ Scirpus tenuis Willd. Enum. 1:76. 1809. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,575. Chap. F1.517. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 468. 
Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Lake Superior to the 
Rocky Mountains; New England west to Michigan and Minnesota; throughout the 
Middle States to Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, 
