1922] Wiegand,— Carex laxiflora and its Relatives 191 
transferred the name to Boott’s “var. intermedia" stating that 
Lamarck's specimens, from Virginia and New York, although 
young, were unmistakably the plant that Boott made var. in- 
termedia. He further stated that these specimens had narrow 
leaves less than one-fourth inch in width, staminate spike conspicuous, 
pistillate narrow and very loosely flowered (14 to 11% inches long), 
and very blunt perigynia. The really loose and alternately flowered 
forms, however, all have the perigynia apiculate or beaked, except 
sometimes C. ormostachya, which extends southward only to western 
Massachusetts. Lamarck may have had especially slender specimens 
of C. blanda or of the form called C. laxiflora in this paper, though the 
writer has seen none that would answer the descriptions of Lamarck 
and Bailey. C. laxiflora ò intermedia Boott, to which Bailey referred 
was a complex containing at least C. ormostachya, C laxiflora, and 
C. leptonervia. Of the plants in the Bailey herbarium labelled C. 
laxiflora, 13 are C. laxiflora as interpreted in this paper, 22 are C. 
blanda and several more are to be referred to other species. "There 
is no means of determining how many of these specimens were in 
Bailey "o hands when the above statements were written. The material 
distributed by Bailey as C. laxiflora, var. intermedia Boott (no. 159) 
is our C. laxiflora. Until the matter is settled by a reinspection of 
Lamarck's plants, the name C. laxiflora may continue to be applied 
to the form so named by Mackenzie (Britton & Brown's Ill. Flora ed. 
2), and represented by Bailey’s distributed specimen (of var. inter- 
media Boott). 
C. anceps Muhl. (ex. Willd.) has been variously interpreted. Bailey, 
who saw the original specimen, treated it as a synonym of C. laxiflora, 
but the figure in Schkuhr's Riedgraeser and also Willdenow's des- 
cription suggest the plant long called C. laxiflora var. patulifolia. 
The beak in Schkuhr’s figure, especially, suggests this. The C. 
striatula Michx. also has been variously interpreted. Bailey, who 
saw the specimen on which this was founded, cites as synonyms 
(Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. i. 32) C. ignota Dewey and C. laxiflora Boott 
t. 89; while in his herbarium labelled C. laxiflora var. Michauxii 
(i. e. C. striatula Michx.) are four specimens, two of which are C. 
ignota and two C. styloflexa, var. remotiflora. C. laxiflora Boott t. 89 
is of course our C. striatula, but all the other citations and specimens 
of Bailey are not. For the plant called C. striatula in the present 
paper, Bailey proposed the name C. laxiflora var. divaricata, as 
