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À TWO NEW CARICES FROM NEWFOUNDLAND. 
M. L. FERNALD AND K. M. WIEGAND. 
CAREX GRACILLIMA Schwein., var. macerrima, n. var., 3-5 dm. alta; 
foliis 3-5 mm. latis; spiculis lateralibus pendulis 12-20-floris tenuissi- 
mis 1.5-2 mm. crassis 1.5-3 cm. longis; squamis 9 albidis 2 mm. 
longis; perigyniis nunquam inflatis trigonis utroque acutis vel sub- 
acutis brunneis 2-2.8 mm. longis 1-1.2 mm. latis; achaeniis late ellip- 
soideis utroque rotundatis 1.6-1.8 mm. longis, 1 mm. latis. 
Plant low, 3-5 dm. high: leaves 3-5 mm. broad: lateral spikes 
pendulous, 12-20-flowered, very slender, 1.5-2 mm. thick, 1.5-3 em. 
long: pistillate scales whitish, 2 mm. long: perigynia not at all inflated, 
trigonous, acute or acutish at both ends, brown, 2- 2.8 mm. long, 
1-1.2 mm. wide: achenes broadly ellipsoid, rounded at both ends, 
1.6-1.8 mm. long, 1 mm. wide.— NEWFOUNDLAND: moist open grass- 
land near sea-level, York Harbor, Bay of Islands, July 27, 1908, 
E. H. Eames & C. C. Godfrey, no. 5937 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); meadow 
on Governor's Island, Bay of Islands, July 28, 1908, Eames & Godfrey, 
no. 5938.— Distributed as C. gracillima, var. humilis Bailey and 
reported by Eames as “occasional about the Bay of Islands, where 
it appears to be a w ell-marked variety.” ! In a letter Dr. Eames says 
further: “I was interested in this thing at the time, so had it in mind 
thereafter. And, although I collected but two numbers, my ‘notes’ 
state that it was ‘Frequent in meadows near sea-level’ about York 
Harbor. I saw it at intervals near the shore for about two miles, 
and on two islands off-shore.” 
C. gracillima, var. humilis, as defined by Bailey, is merely dwarfed 
C. gracillima: “In open places and on harder soils, the species becomes 
dwarfed, and may then be known as Var. HUMILIS. Smaller, the 
leaves narrower; spikes often very small, two- to twelve-flowered, 
erect or ascending; perigynium mostly smaller."? The plant from 
the: Bay of Islands is clearly different in its pendulous many-flowered 
spikes and in its uniformly dark brown firm and acute perigynia. 
In these characters the plant suggests the narrow-leaved C. capillaris, 
var. elongata Olney and it may, when better known, prove to be a 
fertile hybrid of C. gracillima with that plant. 
1! Ruopona, xi. 90 (1909). 
? Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. i. 71 (1889). 
