460 Harper: Explorations in Georgia 1904 



Carex squarrosa L. 



A few specimens were collected in the swamp of the Ocmulgee 

 River at Barrow's Bluff (the present northern terminus of the 

 Wadley and Mt. Vernon Extension R. R.), Coffee County, on 

 May 14 [no. 2204). Its occurrence there is rather anomalous, 

 for it had not previously been reported south of the mountains of 



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Georgia ; but it is unquestionably indigenous. 



Carex VValteriana Bailey [C. striata Michx.) 

 With Cladiuvi viariscoides (see above), also in pine-barren 

 ponds in Screven {)io. 2ogd) and Irwin counties in the Altamaha 

 Grit region. Seen in 1903 in the eastern part of Effingham 

 County {710. iSid). Not at all common. 



The perigynia of this species are described in Small's Flora, 

 and perhaps elsewhere, as "purple-brown/' but they are really 

 pale-green, just as in most species with inflated perigynia. 



Carex sp. 



On May 4, I collected in a cypress pond just outside of 

 Brunswick some over-ripe specimens of a Cairx {jio, 2186) which 

 does not seem to be provided for in modern books. I at once 

 recognized it as a species I had often before seen in summer after 

 its fruit had all fallen, and had never collected for that reason. I 

 afterward saw it in a number of similar places in the pine-barren 

 region. It is so common that it must have been seen by many 

 botanists in the past, and it has probably been described, but it is 

 practically impossible to decide what name, if any, should apply 

 to it. I will describe it briefly here so that future monographers 

 may recognize it and perhaps place it correctly. It is a near rela- 

 tive of C, glaucesccHS Ell. or C. verrucosa Muhl. (if these are syn- 

 onymous ; if they are not, it may be identical with one of them), 

 but differs from the plants to which these names have been usually 

 applied in having the pistillate spikes on stout nearly erect pedun- 

 cles, and flowering always about three months earlier (?. ^y ^^ 

 March or April, like most CarUcs in that latitude). 



Carex cherokeensis Schw. 

 Seen on April 13 and 15 at two points in the limestone belt 

 above mentioned, namely, in the Oconee River swamp near Beecn 



