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variety, especially as this does not appear to have other characters 
nor any well marked distribution.as compared with the glabrous 
plant. 
CAREX WALTERIANA Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 429. 1893. 
This is another species whose perigynia vary from glabrous 
to quite densely pubescent. Professor Bailey has proposed (loc. 
cit.) a variety dvevis for those with glabrous perigynia. I find the 
pubescence exceedingly variable ; it is true,as he remarks, that the 
northern plants tend to have no pubescence, while the southern 
ones have a great deal, but I have New Jersey specimens in which 
the perigynia are hairy at the base and South Carolina specimens 
whose perigynia are very nearly glabrous. Under these circum- 
stances I see no desirability of separating the northern plant as a 
Variety. : 
CAREX BULLATA Schk. A form of this species with solitary 
long-stalked spreading’ pistillate spikes is collected by Mr. Light- 
hipe at Sand Hills, Middlesex Co., N. J. It was erroneously 
recorded in my Catalogue of Plants found in New Jersey as C. 
Olneyi, which, after an examination of several authentic specimens, 
I refer with confidence to C. monile. 
Carex Hartu Dewey Am. Journ. Sci. (IL.) qr: 226. 1866. 
Carex retrorsa var. Hartii A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 600. 1867. 
Examination of a considerable suite of specimens convinces me 
that this is a species distinct from C. retrorsa. 1 append a descrip- 
tion: 
Glabrous, culms very slender, smooth or very slightly scabrous 
above, erect or reclining, 114°-2%° long. _Leaves elongated, 
rough on the margins and lower side of the midvein, or. 3 ite, 
the upper and the similar bracts much overtopping the culm ; 
staminate spikes 1 or 2, the lower sometimes pistillate at the base, 
borne on astalk 1%4’-1’ long; pistillate spikes 2-4, scattered, rather 
loosely many-flowered, the upper sessile, the lower slender-stalked, 
1’-2’ long, about y’ thick, all erect or ascending; perigynia in- 
flated, ovoid-conic, spreading or the lower somewhat reflexed, prom- 
inently few-nerved, about 3/’ long, gradually tapering into the long 
2-toothed beak, 2-3 times as long as the lanceolate acute or acum- 
ate scale; stigmas 3. 
In marshes, Ontario to central New York (and Pennsylvania ?) 
_ West to Michigan. 
