Yale University Herbarium

YU.044488

PLANTAE EXSICCATAE GRAYANAE

138. Eleocharis obtusa (WILLD.) SCHULTES.

Mant. ii. 89 (1824); Torr. Ann. Lyce. N. Y. iii. 302;
Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. xxxiv. 492, figs. 1-7;
Robinson & Fernald in Gray, Man. ed. 7, 182, fig.
247; Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2, i. 313, fig. 766.

Not typical; spikes more elongated and tubercles narrower than in the extreme form of the species.

Muddy margin of pond, Purgatory Swamp, Nor-
wood, Massachusetts.

M. L. FERNALD,
F. G. FLOYD,
B. L. ROBINSON.

October 6, 1901.