BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Notes on Carex.—XVII. 
By LL. H. BaAitry; 
The most important recent extensions of the ranges of the 
carices are the finding of Carex Assiniboinensis, W. Boott, in Northern 
Minnesota, by F. F. Wood, and C. alpina, at Grand Marais, Minn., 
on Lake Superior; C. /orta, in Washington county, Eastern Mis- 
souri, by H. Eggert; C. capillaris, on Mt. Kineo, Moosehead Lake, 
Maine, by Dr. G. G. Kennedy, and in Aroostook county, by M. 
L. Fernald. Carex Assiniboinensis is new to the United States, 
- having been known heretofore only from the collections of Macoun: 
in British America. | 
“ CAREX VERNACULA. 
C. fetida, American authors, not Allioni. 
Distinguished from C. fetida, its European congener, by stiffer 
and shorter leaves, shorter spikes, which give the head a more 
' Tegular and compact look, and especially by much larger and 
broader and more or less prominently nerved perigynia. 
This species, which is yet imperfectly known, inhabits the 
Mountains from Colorado and Wyoming westward. 
CAREX FETA, 
C. straminea, var. mixta, Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and 
Sci. xxii, 1 51 (1886), not C. mixta, Raeusch. _ 
The Pacific coast representative of C. albolutescens (C. straminea, 
var. fenea), from which it differs in its much slenderer habit, more 
Open and long heads, smaller spikes and perigynia. The peri- 
