196 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
while that preferred by C. leptonervia is generally muck or peat. 
C. laxiflora flowers and fruits somewhat later than other species of 
this group in central New York. 
4. C. ormostachya sp. nov. C. laxiflora 8 intermedia (b) Boott, 
Ill. Carex 37 (1858) as to Quebec specimens and possibly Pl. 91. fig. 
1. C. laxiflora, var. intermedia, Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad. xxii. 115 
(1886), in small part. C. laxiflora Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, i. 
31 (1889), in small part; Robinson & Fernald in Gray's Man. ed. 7 
242 (1908), in part.—Gracilis viridis statu sicco subluteo-viridis; 
culmis 0.7-1.4 mm. latis, angulo minute granulosis; vaginis infimis 
purpureo-tinctis; latissimis foliis infimis 3-8 mm. latis, latissimis 
caulinis 2.5-5 mm. latis; bracteis culmum superantibus; spicis remotis, 
masculis plerumque  pedunculatis, antheris 2.8-3.2 mm. longis 
foeminis 12-25 mm. longis alternifloris moniliformibus, rhachi laevi, 
squamis subacutis mucronatis; perigyniis brevibus turgidis 2.5-3.5 
mm. longis, valide 25-35-nervatis, apice perbrevibus tenuibus rectis 
vel obliquis vix vel perbreviter rostratis. 
Plants slender, green, when dry yellowish green; culms 0.7-1.4 
mm. in diam., minutely cellular crenulate on the angles; basal sheaths 
or some of them purple-tinged; leaves narrow, the broadest cauline 
2.5-5 mm. wide, the broadest basal 3-8 mm. wide; sheaths close with 
smooth angles; bracts equaling or exceeding the culm; spikes scattered, 
the staminate usually peduncled and conspicuous, with purplish or 
green scales; anthers 2.8-3.2 mm. long when dry; pistillate spikes 
12-25 mm. long, alternately flowered, moniliform, the rhachis smooth; 
scales broad, subacute, mucronate; perigynia usually short and plump, 
2.5-3.5 mm. long, strongly 25-35-nerved; apex rounded or abrupt 
with a very short slender straight or oblique point.—Woods and 
banks in mostly dry soil: Quebec and Maine to eastern Massachusetts 
westward through western Massachusetts, the Helderberg Mountains 
of New York, mountains of Central Pennsylvania, and Ontario, to 
Lake Superior. Specimens examined: QuesBec: Bic, 1905, F. F. 
Forbes; Roberval, 1892, G. G. Kennedy; Aylmer, 1899 and 1911, J 
Macoun. Marne: Fort Fairfield, Fernald, no. 146; Pleasant Mountain 
1875, W. Boott; Mt. Kineo, 1888, E. & C. E. Faxon; Pembroke, 1909, 
Fernald, no. 1528; Mt. Desert Island, Faxon, Rand, and Redfield; 
Orono, 1897, Fernald; South Poland, 1895, K. Furbish; North Ber- 
wick, 1895, J. C. Parlin, 1896, Fernald & Parlin; York, 1891, M. L. 
Fernald. New Hampsutre: Gorham, 1909, A. S. Pease, no. 12210, 
Franconia, 1896, E. & C. E. Faxon (Tyr, Littleton Hill, in Gray Herb.), 
also two other collections; Hanover, 1908, T. W. Edmondson, no. 
4187. Vermont: Willoughby, 1894, G. G. Kennedy; Moosalamos 
Mt., Salisbury, 1897, E. Brainerd; Middlebury, 1892, Brainerd. 
Massacuusetts: Manchester, 1911, F. T. Hubbard, no. 52; Ashfield, 
1907, E. F. Williams; Sunderland, 1915, F. G. Floyd; Chester, 1913, 
C. A. Weatherby & R. C. Bean; Stockbridge, Savoy, Sandisfield, and 
