492 Bicknell : Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 



have deposited specimens from Richmond Hill, Long Island, in 

 the herbarium of -the N. Y. Botanical, Garden labeled Carex 



abdita. 



' * Carex tonsa (Fernald) comb, nov 



d 



507. 1902. 



Common in the same situations as Carex umbellate- in ex- 



J 



June 17. Perigynia mostly 



about 4 mm. long by I— 1.5 



slender often curved beak 2 mm. long; achene 1-1.25 mm. 10 g 

 by 0.75-1 mm. thick, trigonous-obovoid, chestnut-brown often 

 shining as if polished, contrasting even more markedly with tnai 

 of C umbellate, as described above, than with that of C abdita. 

 In the autumn the plant may be readily recognized from 

 small tufts of stiff partly spreading leaves. 



Wahl 



Quaise 



j 



Carex stipata MuhL 



LEX STIPATA MUIll. , n( j 



Common in bogs and low grounds, often along br ° ** 

 ditches. In full flower June 7 \ a few perigynia accidentally V 



sistent into September. 



around 



Kemarkably large pianis were wu»u »* - * « . 



a pot-hole near Tristram Coffin's Homestead in Septem^^ 

 some of the bright green tufts were 12 dm. tall, with leaves 

 wide, strongly 3 -plicate and very roughly margined. 



Carex vulpinoidea Michx. 



LEX VULPINOIDEA 1V11CI1X. - . aOP eaf 



Frequent in low grounds. Spikes only beginn.ng t F^ 

 • June 9 ; perigynia falling or sometimes quite gone in V 



Bicknell, Bull. Torrey Club «^ 



damp spot at f* 



Carex 



'P 



23. 1896. 



Uncommon or rare. 'Sconset, June 13. m v ^ ct & form, 

 of field by a farmyard, immature — a somewhat ,^ ear t he south 

 bractlets and awns of the scales conspicuous ; ditc nea ^^ 



shorp hptwpen Hummock and Miacomet ponds, June 



