74 Rhodora [APRIL 
C. ANNECTENS Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxxv. 492 (1908). 
C. xanthocarpa annectens Bickn. Bull. Torr. Club, xxiii. 23 (1896). 
C. vulpinoidea, var. ambigua Barratt, Suppl. N. A. Carices, no. 62 
(1841), and in Boott’s Ill. Carex, iii. 125. t. 406 (1862). C. setacea, 
var. ambigua Fernald, Ruopora, viii. 167 (1906).—Inflorescence 
greenish-stramineous becoming deep brown in age, oval-oblong or more 
generally linear-oblong; perigynia 2.6-3.2 mm. long, almost always 
nerved on the outer face; beak rather prominent, broad, serrulate, usu- 
ally plainly notched. Central Maine along the coast to the District of 
Columbia (North Carolina, according to Bicknell). and less frequent 
westward to central New York. 
Var. xanthocarpa (Bicknell) n. comb. C. xanthocarpa Bicknell, 
Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxii. 22 (1896), not Degland in Loiseleur, 
Fl. Gall. ii. 299 (1807). C. vulpinoidea, var. xanthocarpa Kükenthal, 
Pflanzenreich, IV. xx. 148 (1909).—Inflorescence usually golden- 
brown, averaging shorter and thicker than in the typical form; spikes 
less echinate because of the shorter beaks; perigynia smaller, 2.2- 
2.6 mm. long, the wall thicker and essentially nerveless; beak very 
short, narrower, usually less serrulate, and more obscurely notched. 
—Western New Hampshire and central Connecticut to Virginia, 
westward through New York and Ohio to Illinois, lowa and Mis- 
sourl. The writer has seen no specimens from so far east as Cambridge, 
Mass. (E. Tuckerman) as cited by Bicknell. Specimens examined ` 
were as follows: Vermont: Lake Dunmore, 1901, E. Brainerd. MaAssa- 
CHUSETTS: Allen Street, Springfield, 1878, L. Andrews. | CONNECTICUT: 
Hartford, 1878, C. Wright; Southington, 1901, C. H. Bissell. New 
York: near Albany, 1918, H. D. House; near Utica, C. Dewey; near 
Slaterville swamp, Caroline, Hames, Randolph & Wiegand, no. 11,566. 
DkrAwAnE: Wilmington, Canby. VinGiNIA: Bluemont, H. D. House, 
nos. 876 & 878. Outro: Sullivant; Oxford, E. L. Mosely, no. 7253. ILLI- 
nors: Marion County, Bebb; Decatur, I. W. Clokey; Wadra Petra, 
V. H. Chase as Kneuker, no. 366; Joliet, Wheeler & Steele, no. 283. 
Iowa: Fort Dodge, M. P. Somes; Peru, D. E. Hollingsworth, no. 392. 
Missouri: Lee's Summit, B. F. Bush, no. 3911; Buckner, Bush, no. 
6793; Grain Valley, Bush, no. 93, in part. 
The nervation and size of the perigynia go fairly well together. 
Only one or two specimens were seen with the large fruit and no 
nerves on the outer face, while there were two or three only with the 
short measurements and nerves present. 
CORNELL UwrivEnsrTY, Ithaca, New York. 
