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166. Carex Careyana, Torrey ; Dewey in Sill. Journ. xxx. 60, f. 88. 

 New York to Pennsylvania and Washington and westward to Oliio 



and Micliigan. Rare. 



167. Cakex plantaginea, Lamarck, Diet, de Bot. iii. 392. 

 C. lattfolia, Wahl. Kougl. Acad. Ilandl. xxiv. 156. 



Norway House, S. W. of Hudson's Bay, Drummond, to Michigan 

 and New England, and southward in the mountains to North Carolina. 

 A singular species. 



C. PaniceoE, Tuokerman, Enum. Meth. 15. Mostly stouter narrow-leaved species, 

 with thicker spikes; perigynium often strongly nerved, not conspicuously 

 trigonous, often somewliat turgid ; bracts and sheaths various. 



168. Carex vaginata, Tausch, Bot. Zeit. 1821, 557. 

 C. panicea, var. sparsijlora, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 236. 

 G. phceostachya, Smith, Engl. Fl. 99. 



C. sparsijlora^ Steud. Nom. Bot. 296.' 



C vaginata, var. alto-caulis, Dewey, Sill. Journ. 2d ser. xli. 227. 



C. panicea, var. refracta, Olney, Exsicc. fasc. i. no. 24. 

 N. Labrador, Turner, to Bergen Swamp, Genessee Co., New York, 

 Paine, and northwestward to Isle Royale, Porter, and Saskatchewan, 

 Bourgeau. Local. Europe. 



169. Carex polymorpha, Muhl. Descr. Gram. 239. 

 G. Huhegana, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xi. 313, f. 43. 



G. panicea, var. scariosa, Olney, Exsicc. fasc. ii. no. 28. 

 Meadows, Massachusetts to North Carolina, and evidently also 

 Bolander's 4741, from Mendocino, California (introduced?). Not 

 common. 



170. Garex panicea, Linn. Sp. PI. 977. 



Culm smooth: leaves glaucous: spikes colored: bracts an inch or 

 two long : perigynium straw-colored or nearly purple, turgid, the sides 

 scarcely nerved, mostly longer than the obtuse or muticous purple or 

 purple-margined scale, the apex much straighter than in the next. — 

 About Boston, Herb., and Providence, Rhode Island, Olney. Intro- 

 duced from Europe. 



171. Carex tetanica, Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nachtr. 68, fF. 100 and 207. 

 G. refracta, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 297, in part ; Schkuhr, Riedgr. 



Nachtr. 62 (excl. fig.). 

 G. Woodii, Dewey, Sill. Journ. 2d ser. ii. 249. 

 0. panicea. var. tetanica, Olney, Exsicc. fasc. i. no. 23 ; fasc. ii. 



no. 26. 

 G. panicea, vax. Woodii, Olney, Exsicc. fasc. ii. no. 27. 



