1906] Fernald, Two Variations of Carex glareosa 47 



thick; the terminal larger, including the staminate base 6-11 mm. 

 long : perigynia pale brown or drab, plano-convex, fusiform, tapering 

 very gradually to the smooth beak and the shorter substipitate base, 

 prominently striate-nerved, 2.5-3 mm. long, barely 1 mm. broad, 

 distinctly exceeding the acutish or obtuse ferrugineous or purplish 

 white-edged scales. — Act. Holm. xxiv. 146 (1803), and in Schkuhr, 

 Riedgr. Nachtr. 24, t. Aaa, fig. 97 (1806). — Very local on wet gravelly 

 or sandy sea-shores, Norway, Sweden and Finland: Quebec, damp 

 brackish spots, Bic {Collins & Fernald); forming turf in brackish 

 soil by the St. Lawrence, Cacouna {Collins & Fernald, no. 41, 

 Williams). 



Var. amphigena, var. nov. Perigyniis late ellipsoideis ovoideis vel 

 obovoideis 2-3 mm. longis 1.31.9 mm. latis fere abrupte rostratis. — 

 Type, salt-marsh, Escuminac Bay, Escuminac, Bonaventure Co., 

 Quebec, June 29, 1904 {M. L. Fernald). Examined also from the 

 following stations. Labrador, Turnavik Island, August 12, 1896 

 {Cornell Party) : Quebec, maritime rocks, Bonne Esp^rance, July 26, 

 1882 (J. A. Allen); crevices of rocks, Watsheeshoo, July, 1882 {St. 

 Cyr); Pointe des Monts, June 16, 1862 (J. Bell), rocks on coast. Grand 

 Etang, August 1, 1882 (J. Macown); Riviere du Loup, August 4, 1902 

 (Williams & Fernald): New Brunswick, low damp spots, Dal- 

 housie, July 4, 1904, {Fernald): Alaska, Shumagin Island, July 15, 

 IS12{M.W. Harrington); Nunivak Island, August 8, 1891 (J. M. 

 Macoun): Behring Straits, Arakamtchetchene Island, 1853-56 

 {C. Wright): Greenland, Jacobshavn {J. ]^a}d); Godhavn, 1870 

 {Berggren); Disco, July 24, 1902 {Porsild, no. 308): Norway, salt- 

 marsh at mouth of River Altenelf , Elvebakka, July 6, 1868 {Zetterstedt) : 

 Sweden, Vesterbotten {Lehmann); Hernosand and Gefle (J. Franzen 

 & K. F. Thedenius): Russia, Kola, June 26, 1883 {Hollmen); 

 Federersk, July, 1885 {V. F. Brotherus); Vasa, July, 1880 {V. F. 

 Brotherus), June 16, 1SS4 (W. Lauren); Borga, June 15, 1884 (/v. J. 

 W. Unonius). — This is C. glareosa of most authors, and is well illus- 

 trated in Flora Danica, xiv. t. 2430 (1805); Boott's Illustrations, iv. 

 t. 494 (1867); and in Ostenfeld's Flora Arctica, 58. fig. 28 (1902). 



Gray Herbarium. 



An Extreme Form of Botrychium Virginianum. — In June, 

 1905, while attending a field meeting of the Connecticut Botanical 



