1911]  Fernald,— Lost Carices of eastern Massachusetts 243 
Planta robusta 2-2.5 m. alta. Folia glauca planoconvexa ca. 10 mm. 
lata caulibus multum longiora. Spica feminea cinnamomea 20 mm. 
lata 20 cm. longa, floribus bracteolata, e spica mascula 1-5 cm. 
distans. Pollinis granula solitaria. 
In brackish marshes: near Cape Henry, Va. (Tm. 3072); with 
Myrica cerifera and Baccharis halimifolia in marsh near Millstone 
(mouth of the Patuxent River), Md. (Tm. 5141) type material. 
Typha glauca Godr., which was viewed as a hybrid between T. 
angustifolia and T. latifolia by Kronfeld, appears to lie between the 
two species. He characterized it as follows: Planta robusta, 12-15 dm. 
alta. Spica masc. et fem. contiguae. Axis spicae masc. pilis linearibus 
sordido-albis instructus. — Pollen....Spica fem.  castaneo-brunnea. 
Flores sine bracteolis; stigmata linearia pilos albos acutos superantia. 
Fructus....Folia caulium floriferorum laminata, glauca, laminae 
planae, ad 10 mm. latae, inflorescentiam superantes. 
As pointed out by Kronfeld this form has the habit and ebracteolate 
flowers of T. latifolia, and the color of the spike and form of the stigma 
of T. angustifolia. I have never observed any plant of the above 
description. Our variety (virginica) has nothing in common with 
T. latifolia except the wide leaves. These however are plano-convex 
in cross-section as in typical T. angustifolia. 
Bureau oF PrawT INpustry, Washington, D. C. 
TWO LOST CARICES OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
In 1836, Dewey ! described from near Boston two plants collected 
by B. D. Greene and preserved in the Torrey Herbarium, one as 
Carex Greeniana Dewey, the other taken to be C. binervis Smith, the . 
latter said to be “probably introduced like C. panicea, from Europe; 
it is very like the C. binervis of Europe.” Subsequently, it was gen- 
erally stated that the plants which Dewey described were C. helodes 
Link (C. laevigata Smith) and C. Hornschuchiana Hoppe (C. fulva 
of Authors, not Good.), though, as indicated below, there has been 
1 Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci., xxx. 61 (1836). 
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