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With the variety, Sheffield. 
S. hudsonianus (Michx.) Fernald. — (Eriophorum alpinum 111. 
Fl. ed. 2.) 
Peat bogs and peaty meadows; frequent. 
S. lineatus Michx. — Wet, sandy or clayey soil, roadside ditches; 
frequent in the valley in calcareous soil. 
S. Peckii Britton. — Wet meadows; occasional. Lenox; Tyring- 
ham; Sandisfield. 
S. pedicellatus Fernald. — (S. cypcrinus 111. Fl. ed. 2 in part.) 
Wet meadows, swamps and marshes; frequent. A form from 
Lenox has unusually reddish-l)rown involucels. 
var. pullus Fernald. — Williamstown (Churchill). 
S. planifolius ]\Iuhl. — Occasional in dry woods in the south- 
western part of the County. Egremont; Bash Bish Falls, Mt. 
Washington (Knowlton). 
S. rubrotinctus Fernald. — (<S. microcarpus 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
Wet spots in meadows, springy hillsides, marshes; common. 
var. confertus Fernald. — Swale, Lanesboro (Churchill). 
S. Smithii Gray, var. setosus Fernald. — (S. debilis 111. Fl. ed. 
2 in part.) 
Muddy shore of Rudd Pond, Becket; muddy spot in marsh, Lenox. 
S. subterminalis Torr. — Pools in peat bogs; frequent. 
S. sylvaticus L. — Borders of streams, and swamps; occasional in 
the southern jxu't of the valley. Stockbridge; New Marlboro; 
Monterey (Walters). 
S. Torreyi Olney. — Border of shallow pond. Great Barrington. 
S. validus Vahl. — Margins of ponds and slow streams, in shallow 
water; connuon. 
STENOPHYLLUS. 
S. capillaris (L.) Britton. — Sandy soil; common in parts of Shef- 
field, occasional elsewhere in the valleys. Williamstown; Stock- 
bridge; Great Barrington. 
ARACl'LM']. ARUM FAMILY. 
ACORUS. Sweet Flac;. 
A. Calamus L. Swkkt Fl.vg; C.vl.vml's. — Wet meadows and 
marshes; common. 
