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New or noteworthy North American Phanerogams.—IX. 
By N. L. BRITTON. 
“Carex Baivevi Britton, n. sp. 
Carex tentaculata var. gracilis Boott, Il. 94. 1860. Not C. gra- 
cults Rom: 
Carex lurida var. gracilis Bailey, ee Torr. Club,1: 11. 1889. 
After observing this plant over a wide range of territory for 
several seasons, I have concluded to propose it as a species. I 
obtained crucial proof of its distinctness from C. lurida last 
autumn by finding the two growing side by side near Lake Placid, 
N.Y. I think the following description will readily identify it. 
It affords me much pleasure to associate the name of my friend, 
Prof. L. H. Bailey, with this very beautiful sedge. 
Glabrous, culms erect or reclining, very slender, minutely 
scabrous above, 1°-2° long. Leaves slightly scabrous, elongated, 
1’’-2”” wide, the upper and the similar bracts exceeding the culm ; 
staminate spike solitary, short-peduncled ; pistillate spikes 1-3, 
narrowly cylindric, very densely many -flowered, all erect or as- 
cending, 9’’-2’ long, about 4” in diameter, the upper sessile, the 
lower more or less stalked; perigynia inflated, ovoid, 214’’—3” 
long, ascending, abruptly contracted into the subulate sootica 
beak, prominently several-nerved, the lower about equalling, the 
upper longer than the linear-subulate ciliate-scabrous scale ; 
stigmas 3. 
In bogs, Vermont to Pennsylvania, Virginia and Tennessee 
along the mountains. 
Another species has recently been distributed as C. Badleyt 
from the Herbarium of Harvard University, but no description of 
it has appeared, and 1 am informed by Dr. B. L. Robinson that it 
is probably C. Raeana Boott, in which conclusion I concur. 
_ Carex Asa-Grayi hispidula (A. Gray) Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club, 
20: 427. 1803, 
Carex Grayi var. hispidula A. Gray; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 
: 54. 1889. 
The occurrence of trichomes on the perygynia in Carex, while 
a very strong character in some groups, is evidently a poor one in 
others. In the species under consideration it is so variable that 
it does not seem to me to warrant the separation of the proposed 
