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Island, Rand, June 21 and 23, 1891 (C.); Piscataquis County, 
Fernald 269, July 5, 1895 (C.). 
New Hampsuire: Franconia, Faxon, June 9, 1893 (N. Y.); 
Lisbon, Graves, June 10 and 13, 1893 (C.); Crawford Notch, 
Faxon, June 7, 1878 (C.); Wing Road, Pringle, June 4, 1878 (B). 
VERMONT: Ripton, Brainerd, May 25, 1878 (B); June 7, 1879 
(B); June 10, 1892 (B; N. Y.); Ripton, Brainerd & Eggleston, June 
9, 1898 (K. M.); Lyndon, July 2, 1875 (N. Y.); Groton, Pringle, 
June 13, 1879 (B). 
New York: Lake Placid, Peck, June 12, 1897 (N. Y.); White 
Face Mountain, Parry, Aug. 1851 (C.). 
Massacuusetts: Hawley, Forbes, May 30, 1905 (K. M.). 
MicuiGan: Keweenaw County, Farwell 745, July 1, 1890 
(Cb 
6. CAREX BREVIPEs W. Boott, in S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 246. 1880 
Carex globosa var. brevipes W. Boott, in S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 485. 
_ 1880. 
Carex deflexa var. Boottii Bailey, Mem. Torrey Club 1: 43. 1889. 
Carex pilulifera var. Novae-Angliae F. Kurtz, Bot. Jahrb. 19: 
419. 1894. 
Carex Rossii var. brevipes (W. Boott) Kiikenth. in Engler, Pflan- 
zenreich 4%: 452. 1909. 
In dense clumps from stout, matted, ascending rootstocks, 
not stoloniferous, the culms from very short to 18 cm. high, 
phyllopodic, reddish-purple tinged and more or less strongly 
hidden at their base, slender, roughened on the angles above; 
sterile culms aphyllopodic. Leaves with well-developed blades 
4-8 to a fertile culm, the blades flat with slightly revolute margins, 
I.5-2.5 mm. wide, up to 15 cm. long, roughened towards apex; 
terminal spikes staminate, slender, short-peduncled or sessile, 
4-12 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, several-many-flowered, the scales 
ovate, acute or cuspidate, about 3-nerved, reddish- or light 
purplish-brown with lighter center and narrow hyaline margins; 
pistillate spikes 3-5, usually 10-20-flowered, the upper one or 
two approximate, from sessile to strongly peduncled, the others 
widely separated, basal, long-peduncled, the perigynia in several 
ranks, ascending; bract of lower non-basal spike leaflet-like, 
exceeding inflorescence, green, slightly purplish-auricled at base; 
scales ovate, acute to cuspidate, I-3-nerved, green with narrow 
