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the species and ordinarily recognized varieties have the spikes acute 
(at least when young) and more or less rhomboid-fusiform, thus 
strongly contrasting with the blunt or subtruncate obovoid spikes of 
C. tribuloides. In the large suite of material which we have examined 
there are a few specimens which are clearly like the blunt-spiked plant 
of Newfoundland and which indicate that this extreme is widely 
distributed, though apparently rare on the continent of North Amer- 
ica. That it may be readily cited we propose to call it: — 
CAREX SCOPARIA Schkuhr, var. subturbinata, var. nov., var. 
moniliformi habitu statura etc. simile; inflorescentiis elongatis sub- 
flexuosis; spicis subremotis obovoideis vel subturbinatus obtusis vel 
subtruncatis. 
Similar in habit, stature, etc. to var. moniliformis: inflorescences 
elongate, subflexuous; spikes subremote, obovoid or subturbinate, 
obtuse or subtruncate. — Type collected in a wet ditch along the 
railroad near Rushy Pond, Newfoundland, August 28, 1911, Fernald & 
Wiegand, no. 4796. Also examined from the following stations. 
NEWFOUNDLAND: open swale, river-flat, Grand Falls, July 18, 1911, 
by a pool on sandstone ledges, Grand Falls, July 22, 1911, low open 
stony ground along a brook, and in a wet ditch along the railroad, 
Brigus Junction, August 5, 1911, Fernald & Wiegand, nos. 4792, 
4793, 4794, 4795. Nova Scotia: Metaghan, July 22, 1896, E. 
Brainerd. MicurgAN: Tawas Point, June 22,——, H. Gillman. 
TENNESSEE: low wet places, Henderson, May 13, 1893, S. M. Bain, 
no. 500. 
Prize Essay.— We are asked to call attention to two prizes, of 
$25.00 and $15.00, offered by the Torrey Botanical Club for the best 
popular article on some feature of the vegetation in the neighborhood 
of New York (including the State of Connecticut). For details those 
interested should communicate promptly with Mr. Norman TAYLOR, 
CENTRAL Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Volume 14, no. 161, including pages 81 to 96, was issued 1 May, 1912. 
