188 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
CAREX PLANTAGINEA Lam. Ashburnham, April 26 and May 17, 
1896 (Sydney Harris). Listed in Jackson’s Flora of Worcester 
County only from Southbridge. 
CAREX DIGITALIS Willd. Hillside north of Echo Lake, Princeton, 
July 17, 1893 (J. F. Collins). No definite station cited in Jackson's 
Flora of Worcester County. 
CAREX LAXIFLORA Lam., var. LEPTONERVIA Fernald. 'This com- 
paratively northern and montane variety is represented in the. Club 
Herbarium by three sheets from the eastern and central portion of 
Massachusetts: Waverly, June 9, 1861 (Wm. Boott); Ashburnham, 
May 17, 1896 (Sydney Harris); damp shades, Southbridge, May 17, 
1899 (R. M. Harper). | 
CAREX HIRTA L., a European species, is represented in the Gray 
Herbarium by material collected in 1878 near Hammond Pond, 
Newton, by Messrs. E. & C. E. Faxon and by specimens from 
“Grove,” Medford, July 16, 1884 (Wm. Boott); and in the Club 
Herbarium by a poor but recognizable specimen from Melrose, June 
7, 1882 (C. E. Perkins). In Dame & Collins's Middlesex Flora other 
stations are cited, but the species does not seem to have been recently 
collected. Is it extinct? 
CAREX ACUTIFORMIS Ehrh. is another Old World species which was 
once established in our flora, but which may now be extinct. It 
formerly grew in a swamp (“border of salt marsh" one label reads) 
at Savin Hill in Dorchester, and in 1886 was said by Professor L. 
H. Bailey to be “thoroughly established at Dorchester, Mass.; boggy 
meadow, New Bedford, Mass., Willey.””! The New Bedford plant 
has apparently not been collected by recent botanists and the most 
recently collected specimens from Savin Hill seen by the writer are 
dated August 9, 1884. "These stations should be sought. 
CAREX PskUDo-CvprEnvus L. Wet meadow, Southbridge, altitude 
640 feet, June 14, 1899 (R. M. Harper). Listed in Jackson's Flora of 
Worcester County only from Fitchburg. 
CAREX INTUMESCENS Rudge, var. FERNALDI Bailey. Rich damp 
woods, Southbridge, altitude 645 feet, June 27, 1899 (R. M. Harper). 
Not included in Jackson's Flora of Worcester County. 
CoLcHICUM AUTUMNALE L. Early in October, 1909, this beautiful 
species was found in some abundance, by the writer and a party of 
his students, established in a meadow between Carlisle and Concord. 
! L. H. Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 76 (1887). 
