494 Bicknell : Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 

 becoming cylindric and 10 mm. long. There seems to be no 



essential difference between the perigynia of the larger an 



smaMer plants, although the latter sometimes show some ^ approach 

 to the narrower perigynia of var. angustata, but th. form >n ,ts 



•. 1 A i_ ^ 1 ^.~<-*1 iHr m I 111 



typical state was not met with. At a locality in y uaise C nc ™~, 

 fon^of the plant was found passing into a state with nexuous or 

 even nodding heads of scattered spikelets 1-2 cm. apart. 



* Carex incomperta sp. nov. 



Densely tufted, 4-6 dm. high, leaves numerous bnght gr en 

 and rather soft, nexuous, much surpassing the cuhns ^ 

 wide; culms slender, roughened towards *^P ' ^ 4, 

 4r contiguous or slightly separated in a head ^1.5 ^ » 

 small, subglobose, mostly 5-6 mm. long and wide 917 H d 

 the terminal one often clavate at base ; pe ngyn ^ ved on 

 deltoid-ovate, often subcordate, more or less ^ yht] 

 both faces, abruptly contracted into a V™™^™^^ w.de- 

 rough-edged beak one third to one half J^^Jwnish, 

 spreading ; scales ovate, thin, pale be coming ^f ^ ia . 

 obtuse or acute, about two thirds the length of the pengy 



J 



N 



(Bailey) 



WiUd. and C. cf 



• j-^^f^rhvbridi 



blished 



would be not less convincing than that on which many V ^ 

 hybrid is based. C. sterilis, however, does not be ong ^ 



nyona is uabcu. u. *«*#-#•##» **~~ » occur on 



tucket flora as far as known, and, should it possibly 

 island, must be extremely rare and local. her baria but 1 



Carex incomperta seems to be not common ta ^ ^ Q 

 have seen specimens, variously referred to C. s ^ Mich } ga n, 

 cethalantha, which give it a range from Massachuse ^ 



'phalantha 

 Jersey 



Its broadly deltoid perig)** ., 



by the books, place it definitely with C. steruis, y ^ ^ ^ force 

 study I am unable to include it with that species, n ^ ^ 



it into C. ceph 

 lessly broad. 



,f the 



Compared with smaller iorm* ui ^ — ; ^ except t0 wt 

 head is so similar as sometimes to appear ldent,ca ts ^ jn an y «* 

 close inspection, yet I cannot regard the two plan ^ ^ 

 interrelated. C. **«& diners materially in coa 



