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Marshy places : River du Loup, Quebec, Pickering ; New England to 

 Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin ; Sault St. Marie, N. Michi- 

 gan, Porter ; Saskatchewan, Bourgeau ; Northwest Coast, Douglas ; 

 Oregon, Hall. 



Var. Haktii, Gray, Man. 5th ed. 600. 



C. Hartii, and var. Bradleyi, Dewey, Sill. Journ. 2d ser. xli. 226. 

 C. Macou7ii, Dewey, Sill. Journ. 2d ser. xli. 228. 

 Pistillate spikes loosely flowered, long, all scattered or remote, the 

 lower ones on very long peduncles : perigynium spreading or somewhat 

 reflexed. — Pompet, Vermont, Morgan ; New York, Dundee, Yates 

 Co., Samuel Hart Wright, Ludlowville, Tompkins Co., Lord, Greece, 

 near Rochester, Bradley ; Flint, Michigan, D. Clarke ; Hastings Rood 

 and Belleville, Canada West, Macoun. 



25. Carex tentaculata, Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 266. 

 a rostrata, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 282. 



C. tentaculata, var. rostrata, Pursh, Fl. 14. 

 G. Purshii, Olney, Exsicc. fasc. i. no. 30. 

 Variable. — Common in wet grounds throughout the States east of 

 the Mississippi ; Texas, Wright. South America. 



Var. GRACILIS, Boott, 111. 94. 



Smaller and slender, with about two small erect pistillate spikes 

 which are densely cylindrical (an inch to an inch and a half long), 

 the size of a slender lead pencil. — Mountains of Vermont and New 

 Hampshire ; Tennessee, Lesquereux. One of the handsomest of our 

 Carices. 



C. TENTACULATA X LURiDA (var. ? altior of C. tentaculata, Boott, 

 1. c). — Penn Yan, N. York, Sartwell ; Amherst, Mass., Tuckerman; 

 North Hero, Vermont, Morong. 



D. PseudocijpercE, Tuckerman, Enum. Meth. 13. Perigynium less inflated, more 

 conspicuously nerved or even costate, provided with more or less setaceous 

 or aristate teeth ; scale usually aristate ; spikes mostly nodding, comose in 

 appearance, in color greenish, greenish-yellow, or whitish-yellow. 



26. Carex Schweinitzii, Dewey, Sill. Journ. ix. 68. 



A fine local species. — " Canada to New Jersey," Boott ; " New 

 England, New Jersey, W. New York, and northward," Gray's Manual ; 

 Pittsfield, Mass., and Pownal, Vermont, Dewey ; New York, Cowles, 

 Fairfield, Gray. 



27. Carex hystricina, Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 282. 



C Cooleyi, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xlviii. 144. 



