Eleocharis Accilularis R. Brown, p. 150

24 Eleocharis acicularis, Robert Brown.

Syn. Scirpus acicularis, Linn. S. trichodes Muhl
S. capillaceus, Mx. Scirpidium aciculare & chaetocyperus
acicularis, Nees.

Culms finely capillary, quadrangular; spikes
3 to 8 flowered; scales ovate-oblong obtuse; achenium
ovate-oblong, rather acute at each end, sub-triangular,
ribbed, transversely striate; tubercle conical-triangular.
Culm from 2 to 8 inches high. Flowers in June.

About muddy wet places, margins of
ponds and swamps, especially on clay soil.
From Milwaukee to the St Croix river in
Wisconsin; also in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and
Michigan.

Plate I fig 8 -- a the spike; b, a flower; c the
scale; d. the cells and their markings highly magnified

Extends south to Florida; a native also of Europe.