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to Missouri and southward — suggests that it may be found also in 

 the more northern range of the species which extends northward to 

 Massachusetts and southern Ontario. 



Carex set ace a Dewey, var. ambigua (Barratt), n. comb. C. 

 vulpinoidea, var. ambigua Barratt according to Boott, III. iii. 125, t. 

 40G (1862). C. xauthocarpa Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxiii. 22 

 (1896). 



This plant was beautifully illustrated by Francis Boott from Con- 

 necticut specimens and there can be no question from the plate and 

 notes of the identity of Barratt's C. vulpinoidea, var. ambigua with ^ 

 jNIr. Bicknell's C. xanthocarpa. An abundant series of material in 

 the herbarium of Chester Dewey of his own C setacea and of Sartwell's 

 C. scabrior shows that while the best C. setacea (including scabrior) 

 has ordinarily dull brown or drab lanceolate or lance-ovate perigynia 

 tapering gradually to the serrulate beak, many specimens pass very 

 definitely either in color or in the outline of the jierigynia to a commoner 

 ])lant which in its best development has the broad-ovate to orbicular 

 perigynia abruptly short-l)eaked and often golden-brown in color, 

 the latter character suggesting the name xanthocarpa. The transi- 

 tions between these two extremes are so numerous that it seems to the 

 writer that they are best treated as phases of one plant rather than as 

 distinct species. 



(To be continued.) 



MEETING OF THE JOSSELYN BOTANICAL SOCIETY. 

 Edward B. Chamberlain. 



The twelfth annual meeting of the Josselyn Botanical Society of 

 Maine, was held on July 3d to 7th inclusive at Rowe Pond Cam|)s, 

 some ten miles distant from Bingham, ^Nlaine. Sixteen members and 

 friends were present at the meetings. During the day, excursions 

 were made to the various ponds, bogs and woodlands in the vicinity, 

 the evenings being devoted to the business meetings of the society. 

 Upon ^Yednesday evening, Mr. John Murdock, Jr., addressed the 

 society upon the subject of forestry. 



