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wet boggy run upon this dome, where we flushed a covey of ptarmigan 
which started one by one almost from under our feet, were Kobresia 
carcina, Juncus triglumis, Equisetum variegatum, and other species 
which we had only occasionally met; but the greatest discovery here 
was a finely fruited Carex which we at once recognized as the long- 
lost Carex Hornschuchiana of Newfoundland. In 1794 Goodenough, 
in describing from Eaton his C. fulva, supplemented the description 
of the English plant with the comment: “I have received it from 
America and Newfoundland, but never understood till very lately 
that it was an inhabitant of our country.” ! Goodenough’s Eaton 
plant subsequently proved to be a hybrid of one of the forms of C. 
flava and the common European C. Hornschuchiana Hoppe, so that 
the name C. fulva is correctly applied only to the hybrid, and the 
identity of the Newfoundland plant mentioned by Goodenough has 
remained somewhat vague. 'The plant of Table Mountain (and 
also of Hugh's Brook, Bay of Islands, where we subsequently found it) 
is quite like typical C. Hornschuchiana except in size of the perigynia 
and other minor characters? and singularly enough was associated 
with forms of C. flava and a hybrid so like the true C. fulva of Goode- 
nough as to differ only in the slightly larger perigynia. "The redis- 
covery of this Newfoundland plant was indeed gratifying, but in 
view of the occurrence on the limestones of western Newfoundland 
of a few other plants — Gentiana nesophila, Lesquerella arctica, var. 
Purshii and Antennaria eucosma — which are otherwise known only 
1 Good. Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 178 (1794). 
2Carex HorNscHucHiana Hoppe, var. laurentiana Fernald & Wiegand, n. var., 
à forma typica recedit habitu majore, foliis basilariis 3-4 mm. latis, culmis 3-6 dm. 
altis, spicis foemineis crassioris, perigyniis 3.5—4.5 mm. longis. 
Differing from the typical form of the species in its larger habit; the basal leaves 
3-4 mm. broad; the culms 3-6 dm. high (in the European 3-4.5 dm. high); the 
pistillate spikes thicker; perigynia 3.5—4.5 mm. long (in the European 3 mm. long).— 
NEWFOUNDLAND: wet runs and boggy spots in limestone barrens, altitude 200—300 
m., Table Mountain, Port à Port Bay, Aug. 16, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 2897 
(TYPE-SPECIMEN in Gray Herb.); marsh near the mouth of Hugh's Brook, Bay of 
Islands, September 6, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 2898. Quebec: peat marsh or 
bog, Ellis Bay, Anticosti, September 7, 1883, J. Macoun, no. 32. 
It is possible that var. laurentiana will prove to be identical with Carex Greeniana 
Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci. xxx. 61 (1836). The latter plant was “found in the neighbor- 
hood of Boston, by B. D. Green[e]; described from specimens in Dr. Torrey's her- 
barium,” and by subsequent authors was said to be C. fulva. The specimen preserved 
in B. D. Greene's own herbarium (at the Boston Society of Natural History) is 
immature and does not show clearly whether or not the plant is typical C. Hornschu- 
chiana or var. laurentiana. Nothing of the sort has subsequently been found near 
Boston and there is a possibility, as has more than once been suggested, that the 
Greene specimens were a casual introduction from Europe. 
