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9. Carex gigantea, Rudge, Linn. Trans, vii. 99, f. 2. 

 Distinguished from C. lurida, var. polystachya, which it closely 



resembles, by its more slender and spreading pistillate spikes, its less 

 turgid, more abruptly beaked and spreading pei-igynia, and shorter 

 and smooth scales. Staminate spikes one to five. — Swamps: Ken- 

 tucky, Short; Delaware, Canby, Commons, to Florida, Chapman, and 

 Texas, Hall, 758. " Pine barren ponds, P'lorida to South Carolina and 

 westward," Chapman. Evidently local. 



10. Carex Halei, Carey, Chapm. Fl. 543. 



C. turgescens, Dewey, Sill. Journ. 2d ser. iii. 356. 



G. Halei, var. minor, Boott, 111. 94. 

 Banks of the Apalachicola River, Florida, Chapman, to Louisiana, 

 Hale, Joor ; Arkansas, Carey, according to Boott, and E. Texas, 

 Wright. 



11. Carex Elliottii, Schwein. & Torrey, Monogr. 357. 



C. castanea, Ell. Sk. Bot. ii. 546. 



C. Baldwinia, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xxvi. 107. 

 " Boggy margins of pine-barren streams, Florida to North Carolina," 

 Chapman. I have seen specimens from Florida collected by Chapman, 

 and from North Carolina collected by M. A. Curtis. A rare and 

 pretty species. 



C. Veaicnrice, Tuckerman, Enum. Meth. 13. {TentaculatcB, Tuckerman, 1. c.) 

 Perigynium smooth and shiny, much inflated, at maturity straw-colored or 

 occasionally purple, beaked and conspicuously short-toothed, usually promi- 

 nently few-nerved, mucli shorter than in the Lupulinffi : staminate spikes 

 commonly two or more : pistillate spikes as a rule long and densely cylin- 

 drical. — The types of the group are C. vesicaria, C. monile, and C. Tiicker- 

 tnani. 



* Plants tall but slender ; spikes Jew-Jiowered, globular or short-oblong, Jew, scattered 

 or remote, straw-colored; leaves long and narrow, 



12. Carex turgescens, Torrey, Monogr. 419. 



" Pine-barren swamps, Florida to North Carolina," Chapman. 

 I have examined specimens from Florida collected by Chapman, from 

 Society Hill, South Carolina, collected by M. A. Curtis, and from 

 New Orleans in Herb. Torrey. Rare. 



13. Carex oligosperma, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 174. 



C. Oakesiana, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xiv. 351. 

 Borders of swamps and lakes : Bear Lake, Arctic America, English 

 River, and Norway House (lat. about 54°), Richardson, southward 

 to N. Minnesota, Central Lower Michigan, Central New York, and 

 Pennsylvania ; Labrador, Allen. 



