496 Bicknell : Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 



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7 ; a few dried spikelets remaining Sept. 8, 1904. 



Carex subloliacea (Laest) comb, no v. 



C. canescens var. subloliacea Laest. Nov. Act. Soc. Sci. Ups. 



11 : 282.- 



Common in wet sphagnum bogs, sometimes growing with Cam 

 canescens and perhaps intergrading or hybridizing with it, but in 

 its perfectly developed condition a very distinct plant. Fully ma- 



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Ipicola Wahl. of M 



brunnescens Poir.) doubtless refers to the present plant. 



Carex scoparia Schkuhr. 



Common in low grounds. The state with more or less mon- 

 iliform spike (var. moniliformis Tuckerm.) is frequent, as is a so 

 a reduced form corresponding to the var. invisa of Carex r • 

 mathodes Fernald. Very immature June 7, spikes mostly 

 in September. 



* Carex straminea Willd. _ .» s 



Met with only at one locality, on the north side of r 

 Swamp, where it grew very sparingly on dry ground among s 

 tered shrubbery ; scarcely mature June 10. „ e _ 



Very slender, 4-5 dm. tall, the leaves 0.5-2 mm. wide? sp^ 

 lets 2-5, small, on a weak or flexuous axis 2-3 cm. ^' close iy 

 abruptly contracted to a short, staminate base, rat e^ ^ 

 ascending; perigynia mostly 3.5 mm. long by I<75 d ' into a 



or less nerved on both faces, gradually nall °; brown , 

 u^„ a — a -u ~Ar*oA u*r*v ■ scales rather aeep ■ 



more 



rather broad and rough-edged beak ; scales rawer u r ^ ^ 

 the lower very obtuse, those above becoming more at 



acute. 



-^ ij t)^ Amer Acad. 37 ' 



* Carex straminea ecHinodes Fernald, froc. r"' 



474- 1902. . M W oods"J 



Sparingly in damp ground at one place in wc 



nearly mature June 17. spiked 



Slender, 4-6 dm. tall, the leaves 1-2.5 mm. wide, ^ ^ 



5-7 in a more or less moniliform, straight or flexuo icu0 usly 



cm. long, small, ovoid-subglobose, narrowed into a ■ . 3 mtn. 



chaffy, clavate base; perigynia early s P readl " g / h f aces thebo# 

 long by 2 mm. wide, nerveless or nearly so on botn 







