484 Bicknell : Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 



" Woods"; Millbrook Swamp. Spikes very immature June 10; 

 heads still green September 14, 1907. 



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Not common, but scattered here and there throughout the 

 width of the island : ditch west of the town ; near Long Pond ; pool 

 on the « Plains "; abundant at a small pond by the road west of 

 Quaise ; bog-holes south of Wau winet. Spikes beginning to show 

 June 9 ; still fresh after the middle of September. 



* Carex lupulina pedunculata Dewey. 



A luxuriant growth about a pond hole almost hidden by dense 

 thickets less than half a mile to the southeast of Bedlow's Pond ; 



spikes fresh Sept. 19, 1907. 



Appearing very distinct from typical C. lupulina, which seems 

 to be very constant in its characters at the various localit.es where 

 it occurs on Nantucket. 



Carex lurida Wahl. 



Common in low grounds ; examples approaching var 



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Bailey occasionally met with. Spikes 

 still fresh Sept. 15, 1907. 



* Carex utriculata Boott. . f 



Northern end of Millbrook Swamp, filling an inundated p^ 

 perhaps half an acre to the exclusion of all other vege ^ 

 Fully mature and fruiting abundantly June 9. A a , 



form of the plant, larger examples having leavesS ^ 



and spikes 4-10 cm. long by 1-1.5 cm. thick, where ^ 

 had dried away at the edge of the bog many plants w^^ 

 reduced in size, corresponding to Boott's var. minor) in it e se ^ ^ 

 specimens the leaves were only 2-6 mm. wide and t e spi 



specimens 

 cm. long. 



* Carex bullata Schkuhr. 



Very local, but growing in profusion at the few p ^ ^ 

 is found. The narrow-spiked typical form occurs^ ^ 

 meadow west of the town, mostly in the shade o 



laces where it 



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bordering 

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shrubbery and taller vegetation, where it was abun 7 . $ef 

 but still immature on June 9. The broad-spiked form J. • / ^ . fl 

 Dewey, C. bullata var. Greenii (Boeckl.) Ferna J ^ 



abundance in open, very wet sphagnum bogs in yu 



