it: SONGS | ASSEMBLY, 
It is not uncommon to find plants with one or even two lateral 
umbels in addition to the terminal one. The number of flowers 
in the lateral umbels is generally less than the number in the 
terminal umbel of the same plant, and when there are three 
umbels the lowest one has the smallest number of flowers. They 
vary usually from three to six in the lateral umbels. In one 
specimen there were six flowers in the lateral and twelve in the 
terminal umbel. One plant had five large leaves. 
SCLERIA VERTICILLATA, Muhl. 
A small form with but three clusters of flowers is common in 
Bergen swamp. 
CAREX ALOPECOIDEA, Tuckm. 
This species is rare in the eastern part of the State. It 
oceurs near Lansingburgh. #. C. Howe and H. C. Gordiner. 
CAREX FLAVA, L. 
An extremely variable species, even in the same locality and 
apparently surrounded by the same circumstances and influences. 
At Hewitt’s pord in the Adirondack mountains, specimens were 
collected which were but four or five inches high and which bore 
but a single small fertile spike each. Near these, others were 
found which were fifteen or sixteen inches high and bere five 
fertile spikes each. Another form, intermediate in size, had three 
fertile spikes, two approximate and a lower distinct one. 
CAREX LONGIROSTRIS, Torr. 
Rocky places. Keene. A rare species with us. 
fALOPECURUS GENICULATUS, L. 
Green Island. H.C. Gordinier. Lansingburgn. E. C. Howe. 
These specimens are nearly erect, not geniculate at the base. 
On the other hand specimens of Alopecurus pratensis, a species 
described as erect, were collected by myself near Albany, in which 
the stems were decidedly geniculate at the base, thus exactly 
reversing this character as given in the descriptions. 
AGROSTIS VULGARIS, With. 
A form with very many of the flowers developed into leafy 
buds. Hewitts pond. 
