1910] Fernald,—Notes from the Phaenogamic Herbarium,—1I 187 
CAREX CRINITA Lam., var. SIMULANS Fernald. A sheet of speci- 
mens collected at Ashburnham, June 18, 1896, by Mr. Sydney Harris, 
represents an extreme southern station for this comparatively north- 
ern variety, which is otherwise unrepresented in the Herbarium from 
south of the White Mountains. 
CAREX AQUATILIS Wahlenb. Well developed fruiting tips from 
Georgetown, collected by the late Mrs. C. N. S. Horner, are the only 
specimens known to the writer from eastern Massachusetts. C. aqua- 
filis is thus added to that list of very interesting species, characteristic 
of caleareous western New England but ordinarily unknown from 
eastern Massachusetts, which have long been known from isolated 
stations in Georgetown, Boxford, Lynnfield, and neighboring towns; 
a region of more numerous calcareous outcrops than other portions of 
eastern Massachusetts.! This localized flora includes such species 
as Carex livida, Spiranthes lucida, Salix candida, Caulophyllum thalic- 
troides, Parnassia caroliniana, Potentilla fruticosa, Ceanothus ovatus, 
Veronica Anagallis-aquatica, Senecio obovatus, &c. 
CAREX TORTA Boott. Ashburnham, May 24, 1896 (Sydney Harris). 
Southbridge is the only station recorded in Jackson's Flora of Wor- 
cester County. 
CAREX VIRESCENS Muhl., var. Swawrr Fernald, not included in 
Jackson's Flora of Worcester County, was collected on the east slope 
of Mt. Wachusett, alt. 1400 ft., July 15, 1893, by Professor J. F. Collins. 
CAREX AEsTIVALIS M. A. Curtis. It is not generally known, 
apparently, that this attractive species (like small-fruited C. gracil- 
lima with pubescent sheaths) was collected in eastern Massachusetts 
by William Boott. Beautiful material, labelled by Boott himself 
and properly named, is in the Gray Herbarium from Lexington, 
collected July 2, 1876. Is the station now “improved” away? 
Carex WILLDENOWII Schkuhr is another species not generally 
known to botanists of eastern Massachusetts. It was included in 
Dame & Collins’s Middlesex Flora from Melrose; and specimens 
labeled by William Boott, “Malden [Melrose], above the Waterfall, 
on the west side of a path, June 11, 1863,” as well as earlier material 
from Boott, collected June, 1853, are in the Gray Herbarium. In the 
Club Herbarium is also a characteristic specimen from “dry woods, 
Ponkapog, Randolph, Mass., June 26, 1897" (J. R. Churchill). 
1 See Sears, Geological Map of Essex County (1905). 
