1911] Flora of the Boston District,— XIII 249 
(M. L. Fernald & H. M. Noyes, June 14, 1901; M. L. Fernald, W. P. 
Rich & E. F. Williams, June 17, 1902). 
C. digitalis Willd. Dry and moist woods. Not reported from 
northwestern and southeastern sections, but frequent elsewhere (24 
stations reported). 
[CAREX EBURNEA Boott. In the herbarium of the New England 
Botanical Club is a Carex labelled, “Carex eburnea Boott, Reading, 
Mass., legit W. H. Manning, July 14, 1882.” Accompanying the | 
specimen is another label with the above name in Wm. Boott's hand- 
writing. This specimen is the authority for the record in Dame & 
Collins, Fl. Middlesex Co., 118, 1888, “Reading (W. H. Manning.) 
Rare." The specimen is not Carex eburnea, as it lacks the pale tubu- 
lar sheaths characteristic of the species, and its identification is 
uncertain, especially as the perigynia are wanting. As there is a 
specimen of true C. eburnea from Vermont in the Manning Herbarium, 
now deposited in the herbarium of the New England Botanical Club, 
and as Mr. Boott would never have misnamed the Reading plant, 
it is plain that there has been a misplacement of specimen and label 
in this case.] 
C. exilis Dewey. Bogs and wet meadows; nineteen stations in 
Essex and Middlesex counties. 
Originally described in Silliman's Journal XIV, 351, 1828, Appendix 
to Caricography. After the original Latin description is the following 
note: "Flowers in May; found at Danvers, Mass., by Wm. Oakes, 
Esq., and is a singular and beautiful plant. It grows in small tufts, 
and also separate, in wet, cold meadows.” On the same page Dewey 
describes a var. squamacea with the following note: “Flowers in May- 
June; found at Ipswich, Mass., by Mr. Oakes in dense and large tufts 
on the overflowed lands of Ipswich river." 
C. festucacea Schkuhr. Sandy soil, filled land off Ipswich St., 
Boston, not abundant (F. F. Forbes, June 24, 1904); railroad by 
Charles River, Needham (J. R. Churchill, June 17, 1887); sandy plain 
near Lake Cochituate, Natick, not abundant, growing near C. Bick- 
nellii with intermediates between the two (F. F. Forbes, June 24, 
1906); dry railroad bank, Walpole (G. G. Kennedy, July 20, 1899); 
moist field, Mansfield (J. A. Cushman, June 1, 1908). 
C. festucacea Schkuhr, var. brevior (Dewey) Fernald. Dry soil; 
many reports from central part of district, none from northern part, 
and only one (Norfolk) from southern part. 
