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tended by 1 to G perigynia, or sometimes one or more wholly 



staminate, the lowest one either with or without an exceedingly 



slender setaceous bract ; perigynia either horizontally spreading 



or conspicaously deflexed. Cooperstown Junction. June. 



This plant seems to approach variety Texensis but it differs in 



its distant spikes, deflexed perigynia and conspicuous staminate 



flowers. 



Carex aestivalis Curt. 



This rare sedge is plentiful on the highi wooded hills near East 



Worcester. It grows both in the woods and in open places by 



the roadside. 



Carex retrocurva Beio. 



This is C. laxiGulmis Sch w, in the Manual. It has a form serotina^ 

 in which the new growth of the season, after the usual fruiting 

 time, sends up short culms and produces another crop of fruit. 

 In this ca^e the pedicels are rather short and erect and the spikes 

 are few flowered. Taberg and Helderberg mountains. 



Carex debilis Mx. 



A variet}'^ inter jecta Bailey in litt. to C. L. Shear, was discovered 

 by Mr, Shear near Alcove, Albany county, and has since been 

 found by myself near Pierrepont Manor, Jefferson county. It 

 fruits in June. It differs from the ordinary form in its shorter 

 perigynia, which by being loosely arranged on the rachis often 

 give a moniliform appearance to the fertile spikes. The stami- 

 nate spike usually has 2 to 4 perigynia a short distance below its 

 apex. Sometimes the fertile spikes are also conspicuously stami- 

 nate at the apex, and occasionally one has a short branch at its 

 base. 



Yar. strictior Bailey. A form of this variety, having culms 12 

 to 18 inches high and yellowish green foliage, occurs near East 

 Worcester. June. The broad leaves overtop the culms and the 

 spikes are noticeably erect. 



Carex CEderi Ehrh. 

 This sedge was found growing with G. Jiava on the shores of 

 Thompson's lake, Albany county. The two were so markedly 

 different in appearance that it is very unsatisfactory to me to 

 make the former a variety of the latter, as is done by some 

 botanists. 



