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Dec. 5 (Thursday) Continued Eleocharis.
Dec. 6 (Friday).
E. tenuis var. B. Torr. is E. Brittonii!
E. capitata Torr. is E. flaccida!
E. capitata var. B. Torr. is formerly E. microformis.
E. unciatus is E. bicola! (Some triangular achenes found).
Dec. 7 (Saturday),
Continued with West Indian species of Juncus.
E. nigrescens does not appear to be in the West Indies:
Kirkbride's plants so designated being E. microlepis
(Friesch). This species is usually characterized purple
seeds (material resembles E. capitata var. typica much
dwarfed) although slender specimens with costaneous
stems finely petiolate
spikelets occur. The achene is bluntly trigonous; the style-
base flat and apiculate. Based on C. Wright 3370 (in part).
2) E. minutissima Britton. Achenes deeply can-
cellate. C. Wright 3370 (in part)
3) E. minutiflora Boeckl. Achene sharply costate,
tubercle pyramidal; base of culmus pilose. West Indies,
Mexicos, Panama—Guatemala.
E. microlepis = E. carolina Smell.
E. sub-carunculata Clarke is founded on one of
the Pinchla numbers from Mexico, which is badly mixed,
a large part being E. minima.
Dec. 9 (Monday)
E. minutissima is a distinct species, not represented
by C. Wright 3370. Write up this species, and E. nigrescens.
E. nigrescens = E. microlepis Friesch.