rgor | Fernald, — Northeastern Carices 53 
culms sharply angled and generally roughish above, usually over- 
topped by the bracts: leaves 4 to 7 mm. wide, loosely ascending or 
spreading, but of firm texture: staminate spikes mostly 2 or 3, 
peduncled; pistillate spikes 2 (rarely r) or 3, remote, sessile or 
short-peduncled, cylindric, 2 to 7 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. thick: 
perigynium slightly turgid, ovate- to oblong-conic, tapering gradually 
to the slender beak, when mature 7 to 9 mm. long, twice exceeding 
the ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate scale. — Sp. 979; Fl. Dan. 
iv. t. 647; Eng. Bot. xi. t. 779; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. t. 276; 
Carey in Gray, Man. 565; Boott, Ill. iv. t. 536. C. monile, Dewey, 
Am. Jour. Sci. xlix. 47, fig. 116; Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 67, & 
in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 594, in part; not Tuck. C. sf. Boott, Ill. i. 28. 
C. vesicaria, var. cylindrica, Dewey, l. c. as syn. C. Vaseyi, Dewey, 
l. c. ser. 2, xxix. 347; Gray, Man. ed. 5, 600.— A common Old 
World species; less common in America. QuEBEc, Lake St. John 
(E. Brainerd): Mae, Mechanic Falls (7. A. Allen): New 
HAMPSHIRE, Franconia (E. & C. Æ. Faxon): VERMONT, Middle- 
bury (Æ. Brainerd): MassacuuskTTS, Medford (Wm. Boott) ; 
Dedham (Wm. Boott, H. A. Young): RHODE IsLAND, Seekonk 
River (S. 7: Olney): Connecticut, Plainville (C. Wright); South- 
ington (C. ZZ. Bissell): New York, Pen Yan (H. P. Sartwell, exsic. 
no. 152, etc.): PENNSYLvANIA, Huntingdon Co. (7: C. Porter): 
Onto (vide Boott, Ill. t. 536): ONTARIO, Ottawa (Wm. Scott); 
Nipigon River (7. Macoun): also in the northwestern states in 
various forms.! 
Var. monile. Leaves 2 to 5 mm. wide: pistillate spikes similar: 
the perigynium more turgid, roundish-ovate, about 6 mm. long, rather 
abruptly tapering to the beak.— C. monile, Tuck. Enum. Meth. 20; 
Carey in Gray, Man. 565: Boott, Ill. i. 28, t. 72; Bailey, Proc. Am. 
Acad. l. c. & Mem. Torr. Club, i. 39.— Meadows and low ground, 
Newfoundland to the Saskatchewan, Kentucky and Missouri; also 
Transylvania at Csik (Barth). 
Var. jejuna. Smaller and more slender; leaves mostly 3 mm. 
wide: pistillate spikes thinner, 5 to 8 mm. thick: perigynium as in 
the last, 4 or 5 mm. long.— C. monile, var. minor, Olney in herb. ; 
Bennett, Pl. Rhode Isl. 50 (as nomen nudum).— QueEsec, Lakes 
Edward and St. John, Aug. 1896 (E. Brainerd): New BRUNSWICK, 
South Tobique Lakes, July 18, 1900 (G. U. Hay, no. 57): MAINE, 
St. Francis, June 18, 1898 (M. L. Fernald, no. 2075); Madawaska 
Lake, Aug. 2, 1900 (E. F. Williams); New HAMPsHIRE, North 
1 Although the West-American forms of the group are not specially discussed 
in this paper it is worthy of note that Brewer's no. 1654 from the Yosemite 
Valley is exactly C. vesicaria, var. latifolia, Blytt, Norg, Fl. i. 252, one of Blytt's 
original specimens matching the Californian material in every detail. Superfici- 
ally the plant resembles C. rostrata, var. utriculata, but it has the sharply angled 
harsh culm of C. vesicaria. 
