56 Rhodora [MARCH 
Var. FLACCIDA, Bailey. Spikes rather crowded at the tip of the 
culm, none remote, usually more ascending and less comose than in 
the species. — Mem. Torr. Club, i. 73.— Range of species. 
Var. PARVULA, Bailey. Most of the spikes subglobose or short- 
oblong, 1 or 2 cm. long. — Bull. Torr. Club, xx. 418. C. tentaculata, 
var. parvula, Paine, Cat. Pl. Oneida, 105. — Range of species. 
Var. GRACILIS, Bailey. ‘The most slender form: leaves 2 or 3 mm. 
wide: spikes as in the species, but more slender, 1 to 4 cm. long, 1 
to 1.3 cm. broad: perigynium 5 to 7 mm. long. — Mem. Torr. Club, 
i. 11, & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 595. C. tentaculata, var. gracilis, Boott, 
Ill. ii. 94; Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. l.c. C. Baileyi, Britton, Bull. 
Torr. Club, xxii. 220, & in Britton & Brown, l. c. fig. 694. — Mostly 
in mountainous regions, Marne, east base of Mt. Katahdin and at 
Farmington (M. Z. Fernald) : New Hampsuire, Franconia (Wm. 
Boott): Vermont, Lake Dunmore, etc. (4. W. Chapman); Wil- 
loughby Lake (Wm. Boott etc.) ; Underhill (G. G. Kennedy); Smug- 
glers Notch (Churchill, etc.) ; Waterbury and Ripton (Æ. Brainerd) ; 
No. Pomfret (4. P. Morgan) ; Townshend (Z. H. Bailey) : PENN- 
SYLVANIA Delaware Water Gap (Wm. Boott): reported from the 
Southern Alleghanies. 
C. LURIDA X LUPULINA, Bailey. Spikes subapproximate, 2 to 2.5 
cm. broad: perigynium ascending, ovate-conic, about 18-nerved, 1 to 
1.2 cm. long.— Mem. Torr. Club, i. 73, & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 595. 
C. tentaculata, var. rostrata, Sartwell, exsicc. no. 138. C. tentaculata, ? 
var. altior, Boott, Ill. ii. 94, t. 278. C. tentaculata X lurida, Bailey, 
Proc. Am. Acad. l. c. 69, in part.— Massacuusertts, Medford ( Wm. 
Boott); Amherst (Æ. Tuckerman): Connecticut, Groton (C. B. 
Graves); Wethersfield (C. Wright, acc. to Bailey): New YORK, 
Pen Yan, (.Sarfwe//, no. 138). Sartwell's specimens have some good 
achenes, and the plant, though of hybrid origin, may now be a fertile 
form. 
C. SCHWEINITZII, Dewey, in habit closely approaches slender-spiked 
forms of C. rostrata, and in its scales it is very close to C. /urida. 
Its perigynia are slightly inflated, in this also approaching the 
Vesicariae, but they are strongly costate as in the Pseudocyperae, and 
the plant is best treated, for the present at least, as a transitional 
species between these two groups. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
