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Scirpus fluviatilis Torr. & Gray (of a river) . 

 River Bulrush. 



Rare or local. Lyme and Old Lyme, in fresh and salt 

 creeks and marshes (Graves) ; East Windsor and Glaston- 

 bury, banks of the Connecticut River (Bissell). July — Sept. 



Scirpus robustus Pursh (stout). 



Scirpus maritimus of American authors in part. 



Occasional in salt or brackish marshes on or near the coast. 

 July — Aug. 



Scirpus campestris Britton (of fields). 

 Scirpus maritimus in part, of authors. 



In its typical form not known in Connecticut. 



The var. paludosus (A. Nelson) Fernald (of marshes), 

 Scirpus paludosus A. Nelson, is frequent in marshes along 

 the coast. 



The var. novae-angliae (Britton) Fernald, Scirpus 

 novae-angliae Britton, is rare or local in fresh and brackish 

 marshes on the coast from Milford westward (Eames). July 

 — Aug. 



Scirpus rubrotinctus Fernald (red-dyed). 



Scirpus sylvaticus L., var. digynus Gray's Manual ed. 6, not 



Boeckl. 



Rare or local. Swamps and marshy meadows : Lyme 

 (Graves), Southington (Andrews & Bissell), Waterbury 

 (Harger), Union, Glastonbury, East Windsor, Somers, Litch- 

 field and Norfolk (Bissell). Late June — early July. 



Scirpus sylvaticus L. (of woods). 



Occasional or frequent. Swamps, along streams and about 

 ponds. Late July — Aug. 

 Scirpus sylvaticus L., var. Bissellii Fernald. 



Rare. Open swamps: Southington (Andrews, Bissell), 

 Ansonia (Harger). July. 



Scirpus atrovirens Muhl. (dark green). 



Rare. Moist ground : Orange, Huntington and Southbury 

 (Harger), Milford (Eames). Aug. 



