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gynia are loosely placed in the spike, giving the plant much the 
appearance of forms of C. stvaminea and C. fenea. In the Botany 
of California it is variously referred to C. /agopodioides, C. adusta, 
C. cristata, var. mirabilis, and C. scoparia, var. fulva. 
’ Carex lurida, var. PARVULA (Paine). 
C. tentaculata, var. parvula, Paine, Cat. Oneida Pl. 105 (1865). 
Low (8’ to 16’), very slender, with one or two spikes which are 
half or less the size of those in the type, sessile or very nearly so 
perigynia not more than half the size of those in the common 
form. A diminutive form growing along the Mohawk River, 
according to Paine; I have also collected it in Southern Vermont, 
and Professor Hitchcock sends it from Ames, Iowa. 
’ Carex intumescens, Rudge, var. FERNALDII. 
Very slender (about a foot and a half high), with leaves nar- 
rower than in the type; spikes reduced to one to three perigynia, 
which are erect and slender, being inflated less than half as much 
as those in the type-——Cedar Swamp, Aroostook county, Maine, 
1893. - M. L. Fernald, 127. 
Forms of C. intumescens sometimes occur in dry woods, in 
which the spikes are reduced to one or two perigynia; but this 
variety differs in the slender perigynia which stand erect in the 
spike. 
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Carex debilis, Michx., var. INTERJECTA. 
C. debilis Sartw. Exsicc. No. 118 (1848). 
C. debilis 8 Boott, Ill. t. 273 (1860). 
Tall and nearly or quite strict, with nearly erect spikes which 
are often compound at the base, very loosely flowered; perigy- 
nium shorter than in the var. Rudgei, the beak conspicuously 
less cylindrical. It differs from the var. stvictior in the much nar- 
rower leaves and more loosely flowered spikes. Sartwell collected 
it at Penn Yan, N. Y., and Boott reports it from Pennsylvania by 
Townsend. Mr. C. L. Shear sends me specimens from Alcove, 
eastern New York, which is the first undoubted material I have 
obtained to match Boott’s excellent plate and Sartwell’s speci- 
mens. I do not know what its range may be. Undoubtedly 
various intermediate erect-spiked forms, which have always been 
a puzzling part of Cares dedilis will need to be referred here. The 
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