﻿Mackenzie: Notes on Carex 409 



bracts sheathless, their auricles inconspicuous, slightly dark- 

 colored, the lower bract 1.5-3 mm. wide, shorter than inflorescence; 

 the upper reduced. Scales variable, oblong-obovate to lanceolate, 

 obtuse to acuminate, reddish, with lighter center and narrow 

 hyaline margins, narrower and usually rather shorter than peri- 

 gynia, appressed. Perigynia broadly to narrowly ovate, closely 

 enveloping achene, plano-convex, not inflated, two-edged, granular- 

 roughened, puncticulate, dark green, obscurely few-nerved 

 dorsally, nerveless ventrally, 2.5 mm. long, 1. 5 mm. wide, rounded 

 and substipitate at base, short-tapering to the beakless or nearly so 

 subentire whitish-tipped apex, the style short-exserted ; achenes 

 lenticular, broadly ovate, substipitate, 1.75 mm. long, 1.25 mm. 



Specimens examined 



Massachusetts: Cambridge, Fernald, June 10, 1891 (C); 

 Cambridge, Underwood 2644, May 9, 1891 (C); Boston, B. D. 

 Greene (C); West Roxbury, Forhes, June 8, 1911 (K.M.). 



Rhode Island: Providence, Olney, June 8, 1871 (N. Y., C); 

 Providence, Olney, labeled C. strictior Dewey (C). 



New Hampshire: base of White Mountains, Tuckerman (C). 



New York: Bull's Head, Staten Island, Britton, June 2, 1889 

 (C); Grant City, Staten Island, Britton, May 26, 1889 (C); 

 Suffern, Schrank (C.) ; West Hampton, Delafield, June 13, 1888 

 (C.) ; Junius, SartwellS4 (N. Y., C.) ; Prattsburgh, Steuben County, 

 Wright {N.Y.,C.), type of C. xerocarpa S. H. Wright; Philips- 

 town, Barratt (C); New York, Torrey (C). 



New Jersey: Plainfield, Tweedy, June, 1884 (C.) ; Woodbridge, 

 LightUpe, May 3, 1890 (C); Manchester, Torrey (C); Pitman, 

 Gloucester County, Long 3425, May 16, 1910 (P.) ; Farmingdale, 

 Long & Brown 3644, May 28, 1910 (P.); Glassboro, Gloucester 

 County, Lowgjjdo, May 14, 1910 (P.) ; Delair, Camden County, 

 Long 3353, May 10, 1910 (P.) ; Cape May Court House, Long 7229, 

 June I, 1912 (P.); Delanco, Burlington County, Long 3466, 3467, 

 May 19, 1910 (P.); Cold Spring, Cape May County, O. H. Brown, 

 June 26, 1911 (P.); Mickleton, Crawford, May 10, 1892 (P.); 

 Kaighn's Point, Camden County, MacEhvee, May 7, 1892 (P.); 

 Batsto River, Burlington County, Bassett 45, May 25, 1912 (P.); 

 Quinton, Salem County, Long302g, April 22, 1910 (P.) ; Cranberry 

 Lake, Sussex County, Mackenzie 1294, May 30, 1905 (K. M.); 



