1901] | Fernald, — Northeastern Carices 55 
in Gray. Man. ed. 6, 595. C. reversa, Spreng. Syst. iii. 827. — Wet 
places, Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Saskatchewan and British Colum- 
bia, south to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Idaho and Oregon. 
Var. Hartu, Gray.  Pistillate spikes scattered, long-peduncled : 
perigynia mostly wide-spreading. — Man. ed. 5, 600; Bailey, Proc. 
Am.Acad. l. c. C. Hartit, & var. Bradleyi, Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci. 
ser. 2, xli. 226. — Rather local, New HAMPSHIRE, Jackson (Wm. 
Boott): VERMONT, Pomfret, (4. P. Morgan): New York, Jefferson 
Co. (Crawe); Dundee, Yates Co. (.S. Hart Wright); Greece (.S. D. 
Bradley): ONTARIO, Seymour and Stirling (7. Macoun): MICHIGAN, 
Agricultural College (C. F. Wheeler); Lansing (Z. 77. Bailey). 
Var. Macounii. Similar to the latter, but perigynia ascending. 
— C. Macounii, Dewey, l. c. 228. C. lupulina, var. gigantoidea, 
Dewey, l. c. 328. C. lurida x retrorsa, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. xiii. 88. 
C. lupulina X retrorsa, Dudley, Cayuga Fl. 119. — New York (fide 
Dudley, l. c.): ONTARIO, Seymour, Northumberland Co., July r5, 
1865, July 16, 1867, July 15, 1873, and Belleville, July, 1866 ( . 
Macoun): Micuican, Alma, Aug. 20, 1893 (C. A. Davis). 
C. RETRORSA X UTRICULATA, Fernald. Spikes and perigynia as 
in C. rostrata, var. utriculata, but the latter strongly retrorse. — 
Rhodora, ii. 170. — Connecticut (C. Wright). 
+ + Scales mostly with thin serrulate awns. 
C. LURIDA, Wahl. Culms mostly smooth and obtusely angled, 
1 m. or less high: leaves loose, scabrous, broad and flat, 4 to 6 mm. 
wide; the bracts leaf-like, elongated: staminate spike usually 1, 
elongated, peduncled or sessile, commonly subtended by a very nar- 
row bract; pistillate spikes 2 or 3 (rarely 4), subapproximate, the 
upper subsessile, the lower short-peduncled and when more than 
2 somewhat remote, very comose, oblong-cylindric, mostly 3 to 6 cm. 
long, 1.5 to 2 cm. thick: perigynium very thin and bladder-ike, 
about ro-nerved, globose-ovate, 7 to 10 mm. long, the body barely 
equalling the slender long-conic beak. — Kónig. Acad. Hand. xxiv. 
153 (1803), fide Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, i. 10, 11. C. tentaculata, 
Muhl. in Willd. Spec. iv. 266; Schk. Riedgr. Nachtr. 53, t. Ggg. 
fig. 130; Carey in Gray, Man. 563; Boott, Ill. ii. 94, t. 277 ; Bailey, 
Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 69. C. rostrata, Willd. Spec. iv. 282; Schk. 
l. c. 54, t. Hhh. fig. 134; not Stokes. C. Zentacu/ata, var. rostrata, 
Pursh, Fl. i. 41. C. gigantea, Kunth, Enum. ii. 503 (fide Bailey). 
C. Purshii, Olney, Exsicc. fasc. i. no. 3o. C. Beyrichiana, Boeckel. 
Linnaea, xli. 239 (fide Bailey). — A very common species in low 
ground, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia, and Queens Co., New Bruns- 
wick to Ontario, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Passing by numer- 
ous transitions to several formal varieties : — i 
Var. EXUDANS, Bailey. Spikes far apart, the lower very remote on 
elongated capillary peduncles. — Bailey in Britton & Brown, Ill. FI. 
i. 299. — Range of species. 
