No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. IO3 



Carex ptychocarpa Stetid. (having folds on the fruit). 



Rare. Waterford, in rocky woods (Graves). June. 

 Carex laxiflora Lam. (loose-flowered). 



Rich woods. Rare in northern and eastern Connecticut, 

 becoming occasional or frequent in Fairfield County. Late 

 May — June. 



Carex laxiflora Lam., var. gracillima Boott (very slender). 



Rare. Borders of moist thickets: Oxford (Harger), 

 Litchfield (Bissell). Late May. 

 Carex laxiflora Lam., var. patulifolia (Dewey) Carey (with 

 spreading leaves). 



Occasional or frequent. Rich woods or thickets. Late 

 May — early June. 



Carex laxiflora Lam., var. styloflexa (Buckley) E5oott (having 

 bent styles). 

 Care.r styloflexa Buckley. 



Rare. Rocky or moist woods or in sphagnum swamps : 

 Lyme (Graves), East Haddam (Weatherby), New Haven (J. 

 A. Allen), Southington (Bissell), Oxford (Harger), Fair- 

 field (Fames). June. 

 Carex laxiflora Lam., var. varians Bailey (varying). 



Occasional. Rich woods and thickets. Late May — June. 

 Carex laxiflora Lam., var. blanda (Dewey) Boott (agreeable). 

 Carex laxiflora Lam., var. striatula Carey. 



Frequent or common. Rich open woods or in half-shade, 

 in either dry or moist ground. Late May — June. 

 Carex laxiflora Lam., var. latifolia Boott (broad-leaved). 

 Carex alhursina Sheldon. 



Rare or local. Moist rich woods : Groton and Waterford 

 (Graves), East Haven and Salisbury (Bissell), Southington 

 (Andrews & Bissell), Seymour (Harger), Oxford (R. W. 

 Woodward & Fames), Winchester (Weatherby & Bissell). 

 May — early June. 

 Carex laxiflora Lam., var. leptonervia Fernald (delicately 

 nerved). 



Rare. Wet woods or sphagnum bogs : Franklin ( R. W. 

 Woodward), West Hartford and Winchester (Bissell). May 

 —June. 



