50 Report of tee State Botanist. 



Juncus Greenii 0. <£• T. 



Riverhead, Aiuagansett and Hempstead Plains. July. 



Juncus militaris Bigel. 

 Near Riverliead. Jidy. 



Scirpus polyphyllus VaM. 



Shandaken, Ulster county. Some of the plants emit leafy 

 tufts or shoots among the rays after flowering. 



Eriophorum cyperinum L. 



Of var. Idxum there is a form in which the spikelets are 

 collected or crowded into a more or less dense somewhat gobular 

 head. Blue Mountain slide. August. Sandlake. September. 

 In the Sandlake specimens the spikelets are more tawny in color. 

 It might be called form eondensatum. 



Scleria paucifiora Mnhl. 

 Hempstead Plains. July. 



Carex intumescens Rudge. 



In the Manual this is said to have two fertile sjjikes. Speci- 

 mens having three fertile spikes were collected at Blue Mountain 

 lake ; also in Alcove by Mr. Shear. They do not appear to be 

 very unusual with us. 



Carex lurida Wahl. 



This species usually has but one staminate spike, but Dr. Howe 

 finds, at Lansingburgh, specimens having two ; a short one just 

 below the base of the long one. In some instances the short one 

 is pistillate at the apex. Variety altior was collected on Montauk 

 Point. Dr. Howe also finds Carex hystricina with t^vo staminate 

 spikes. A small form of this species occurs near Adams. It has 

 but one or two small and very short fertile spikes. In the latter 

 case they are often very distant. 



