40 Report of the State Botanist. 



Carex Emmonsii Deic var. elliptica Boott. 



In the Eighteenth Report on the State Cabinet of Natural 

 History, p. 155, the characters of this sedge are published. It is 

 described as having the spikes crowded ; the perigynia rather 

 long (i^iy-A o^ ^ 1^^® long, -^ broad), hirsute, nearly twice the 

 length of the scale ; achenium elliptical-triquetrous (1-^ of a line 

 long, ^ a line broad), style deciduous at the base. New York, 

 K7iiesJc€rn. 



The variety has a longer body to the perigynium and a longer 

 achenium, and the pubescence is softer and longer, and the pro- 

 portionate length of the perigynium to the squamae gives a pecu- 

 liar aspect to the spike. It has not been noticed by authors : 

 F. Boott. Penn Yan ; Rochester, Dewey. 



This sedge has not to this day been properly recognized in the 

 Manual. 



Dr. E. C. Howe, who has made a special study of carices and 

 to whom specimens of this plant were sent for examination, con- 

 siders it a good species, and has sent the following description of 

 it under the name 



Carex Peckii nov. sp. 



Stems 3 to 16 incnes high, culm leaves 2 to 5, very short, nar- 

 row, radical leaves 3 to 10 inches long, about one line broad; 

 staminate spike small, sometimes inconspicuous ; fertile spikes 2 

 to 3, aggregated, the two uppermost 3 to 8-flowered, the lowest 

 2 to 6, bracteate ; perigynia 1.5 to nearly 2 lines long, about 

 half as wide, elliptical-triquetrous, prominently beaked, strongly 

 hirsute, longer than the ovate acute or acutish-mucrooate scarious 

 margined scale, long and tapering at the base ; scales centrally 

 green, the sides tinged with brown or purplish-brown ; achenia 

 triquetrous-elliptical, strongly 3-ribbed, promiiiently stipitate, 1 

 line or more long. 



Helderberg mountains, Albany county ; Brownville, Jefferson 

 county ; Eli2abethtown, Essex county. Also collected by the 

 late Professor Dewey in Yates and Monroe counties, and else- 

 where in New York by the late Dr. Knieskern. 



The largest specimens were collected at Brownville, the small- 

 est near Elizabethtown. The plants grow in thin woods or their 

 borders or where they are partly shaded by trees. The specimens 



