96 Karl M. Wiegand and Arthur J. Eames 



5. E. acicularis (L.) R. & S. 



Ditches, meadows, and muddy shores, often in sand, showing little relation to lime 

 content of the soil ; common. June-Oct. 



Newf. to B. C, southw. to N. J., Mo., Mex., and Calif., including the Atlantic 

 Coastal Plain. Found also in Eurasia and W. I. 



6. E. capitata (L.) R. Br. (See Rhodora 20:23. 1918. E. tenuis of Gray's Man., 



ed. 7, and of Cayuga Fl.) 



Springy and marly shores and meadows, in acid, neutral, or strongly alkaline soils ; 

 frequent. May 10- July 15. 



Pasture, South Hill ; marl springs s. and n. of Coy Glen ; marl spots w. of Key 

 Hill ; moor of Junius marl ponds ; and elsewhere. 



Newf. to Man., southw. to Fla. and Tex., including the Coastal Plain. 



The preference of this plant for marl in this flora is difficult to correlate with its 

 distribution in acid soils on the Coastal Plain and in N. E. 



7. E. intermedia (Muhl.) Schultes. 



Sandy or gravelly shores or springy places, in more or less calcareous soils ; fre- 

 quent. July-Aug. 



Spencer Lake ; swamp w. of Key Hill ; Larch Meadow ; Six Mile Creek ; Fall 

 Creek, at Beebe Lake and above Forest Home; lake shore, Renwick (D. !) ; spring 

 s. of Dryden Lake ; gravelly shore, Myers Point ; gravelly strand, Salmon Creek ; 

 muddy brook, Malloryville Bog ; ditch, Beaver Brook ; McLean Bogs ; Cortland marl 

 ponds; Lake Como (Locke Pond, F. L. Kilborne) ; Big Gully Poipt; Junius marl 

 ponds. 



Que. to w. Ont, southw. to n. N. J., Pa., Ohio, and Iowa; rare or absent in the 

 granitic acid parts of N. E. 



8. E. rostellata Torr. 



Brackish and marly marshes; rare. June 15-July. 



In this basin confined to the Ontario plain: about Indian Salt Spring (D.) ; Junius 

 marl ponds (D. !) ; Miller Bog, Spring Lake. 



Salt marshes from N. S. to Fla. and Tex., and on the Pacific coast; also locally 

 in alkaline situations inland. Found also in Mex. and Cuba. 



4. Stenophyllus Raf. 

 1. S. capillaris (L.) Britton. 



Found in 1913 in considerable quantity on the cinders and gravel in the L. V. R. R. 

 yards n. of the station, Ithaca, and at the same place again in 1919. Locally intro- 

 duced. 



Sandy regions: Me. to Minn, and Calif., southw. to Fla., Tex., and tropical Am. 



5. Fimbristylis Vahl 



1. F. autumnalis (L.) R. & S. (See Rhodora 20:24. 1918. F. Frankii of authors.) 

 Sandy strands ; rare. Aug.-Oct. 



Farley Point, 1895 (IV. W . Rozvlee & K. M. W.) ; not seen since. 

 Me. to Ont., southw. to Tenn. and La., including the Coastal Plain. 



6. Scirpus (Tourn.) L. 



a. Involucre none, or merely the modified outer scale of the solitary terminal spike- 

 let ; culms not plainly leafy. 

 b. Perianth bristles not exceeding the scales, terete. 

 c. Bristles retrorsely barbed; spikelets flattened; achenes beaked; scales without 

 definite midribs, membranous, pointless. 



