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late fall. This striking difference between the fruiting seasons of the two 
plants, as well as the pronounced differences in size, aspect, and range, is 
sufficient evidence that the common drab “wool-grass” of our northern 
meadows and low thickets should no longer be confused with the more 
southern and coarser ferruginous species with which it has been so gen- 
erally associated. 
very handsome plant, unlike anything which seems to have been 
formerly described, is found by Mr. Luman Andrews in Connecticut. 
The plant is apparently an extreme form of Scirpus Eriophorum, but 
unlike that species or its var. cyperinus, with short ovoid spikelets, this 
stout plant has the glomerulate oblong spikelets often 1 cm. in length. 
Occasional luxuriant specimens of S. Eriophorum, however, are found 
with the spikelets more elongated than in the type, thus connecting the 
Connecticut plant directly with that species, 
The plants which have heen associated as Scirpus Eriophorum may be 
defined as follows. 
* Culms stout (just below the involucre averaging 8 mm. in diameter), about 1.25 
(rarely 1.5) m. high: leaves 4.5 to 11 (average 6) mm. wide: involucre us 
ferruginous at base: scales and bristles ferruginous. 
S. Erropuorum, Michx. Inflorescence ample, 1.5 to 2.5 dm. high ; 
the dichotomous rays of the umbel elongated and drooping at the tips: 
spikelets ovate or ovoid-oblong, 3.5 to 6 (average 4.5) mm. long; clus- 
tered at the tips of the branchlets, the lateral mostly on distinct generally 
elongated pedicels. — Fl. i. 33; Torr. Fl. N. and Middle States, i. 5% 
Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. iii. 331 (including a & y), & FI. N. Ries 
356, in part; Kunth, Enum. ii. 170; Gray, Man. ed. 2, 501 (including 
var. laxus); Béckl. Linnea, xxxvi. 731, in part. S. ertophorus, Vahl. 
Enum. ii. 282; Reem. & Schultes, Syst. ii. 147. _ S. thyrsiflorus, will 
Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 78. S. cyperinus, Kunth, var. Eriophorum 
Britton, Trans. N.Y. Acad. Sci. xi. 82, in part; Britton & Brows, Ill. 
Fl. i. 271, in part. Zrichophorum cyperinum, Ell. Sk. i. t. 8, f 4, 20 
Pers. Eriophorum cyperinum, L., var. lacum, Wats. & Coult. in Gray, 
Man. ed. 6, 582, in part. — Common in the southeastern and Gulf States, 
extending westward to Louisiana and north to Arkansas and New Jersey : 
Perhaps of more northern range, but as yet too little collected in condition 
mature enough for satisfactory identification. The following specimens 
‘are feferred here: —-Nuw Jersey, Woodbridge, Sept. 21, 1889, and 
Barnegat Bay, Aug. 25, 1892 (J. R.Churchill): Virarnta, Bedford Co» 
Sept. 1, 1871 (A. H. Curtiss); Northwest, Norfolk Co., Sept. 23, 1892, 
Sept. 6, 1893 (A. A, Heller, nos. 762, 1257): Sourn Caroxrna, Aiken 
