MACKENZIE: NOTES ON CAREX 499 
Densely cespitose, the culms 3-6 dm. high, strict, 2.5 mm. wide 
at base, aphyllopodic, roughened above, equalling leaves, light 
brownish tinged and fibrillose at base. Leaves with well-de- 
veloped blades four to six to a fertile culm, on lower fourth, but 
not bunched, the sheaths tight, somewhat septate-nodulose, the 
blades flat, 1.5-3 mm. wide, deep green. Spikes four to seven, 
androgynous, the upper closely contiguous, the lower strongly 
separate, with six to twenty perigynia, the staminate flowers 
few and inconspicuous; lowest bract setaceous, prolonged and 
often overtopping the culm, the others less developed. Scales 
broadly ovate, obtuse, thin, white-hyaline with green midvein, 
about width of and half length of body of perigynium. Perigynia 
soon widely spreading, plano-convex with slightly raised margins 
ventrally, deep green, nerveless or obscurely nerved, roughened on 
margins above, 3.25-4.5 mm. long, 1.75 mm. wide, spongy and 
rounding at base, abruptly contracted into a bidentate beak, 
one third length of body, conspicuously hyaline between teeth. 
Achenes lenticular, orbicular-obovate, filling perigynia, 2 mm. long, 
mm. wide. Style enlarged at base, deciduous. Stigmas two, 
shorks thickish, twisted, dark brown. 
My No. 2088 collected June 10, 1906, at Budd’s Lake, New 
Jersey, and preserved in my herbarium may be taken as the type. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED 
MAINE: Veazie, Knight, June 10, 1905 (K. M.). 
New HampsuHtre: Blake (C.). 
Massacuusetts: Great Barrington, Brown, June 3, 1894 (C., 
P.); Cambridge, Fernald, May 30, 1891 (C.); Dedham, Forbes, 
June 27, 1903 (K. M.); ‘‘Mass.”’ Dewey (P.). 
RuopE IsLanp: North Kingstown, May, 1872 (N. Y.); Olney, 
June (N. Y., P.); Lime Rock, Baéchelder, June 4, 1913 (P.). 
Connecticut: Trumbull, Eames, May 20, 1903 (K. M.). 
New York: Torrey (C.); Penn Yan, Sartwell 24 (C.); High 
Bridge, Bicknell, July 5, 1890 (C.); Lake George, Kemp, June — 
1901 (N. Y.); Binghampton, Clute, 1895 (N. Y.); Apalachin, 
Fenno 492, 500, May 1898 (N. Y.); Portage, Peck, var. pusilla 
Peck (N. Y.). 
New Jersey: Budd’s Lake, Mackenzie 2088, June 10, 1906 
(K. M.); Cranberry Lake, Mackenzie 732, 1295, June 12, 1904, 
May 30, 1905 (K. M.); Mickleton, Heritage, May 18, 1892 (P.); 
Mickleton, Brinton, June 15, 1890 (P.); Glassboro, Long 3419, 
