222 THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA 



C. FEDICELLATA (Dewey) Britton. (C. communis Bailey). 



Fayette : dry soil under cliffs, near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 

 C. JAMESII Schwein. 



Fayette: open woods near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 

 C. POLYTRICHOIDES Willd. (C. leptalea Wahl.) 



Fayette: sphagnum swamp near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 

 C. FRASERI And. Frazer's Sedge. 



The following remarks of Prof. T. C. Porter render it 

 evident that this rare and odd sedge came originally from 

 Randolph or Barbour county, each of which lies between the 

 headwaters of the two Kanawhas : 



"Muhlenberg, in his Descriptio uberior Graminum, etc.,, p. 

 265, under C. lagopus ?, which is C. Fraseri, Andrews, adds 

 these words, 'Habitat in Tyger- Valley, Pennsylvania, eunde 

 sic cam habeo et vivam! Kin, the German gardner who col- 

 lected in Pennsylvania, brought it home, and his label reads 

 thus : 'Deigher Walli in der Wilternus.' Dr. Gray hai 

 shrewdly conjectured that by 'Deigher Walli/ or Tygert Val- 

 ley, is meant Tygart's Vallev, which lies further south in 

 Virginia." In a footnote, Prof. Porter adds "a box contain- 

 ing the Carices of Muhlenberg has just been discovered 

 (1877) in the herbarium of the Academy, Philadelphia, and 

 the label attached to the specimens of Kin's collection places 

 Tyger Valley 'prope amnem Kenahway.' ''' 



As the two Kanawhas lie entirely within the State of 

 West Virginia, there seems to be little doubt as to the pro- 

 priety of including this species in this Flora. 



Since writing the above Mr. Nuttall has found a plentiful 

 station for this species near Nuttallburg in the Great Kana- 

 wha region. 

 C. STIPATA Muhl. 



Ohio: near Wheeling (Mertz & Guttenberg). Fayette: 

 near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Mercer: near Bluefield. 

 C. VULPINOIDEA Michx. 



Monongalia : along Falling Run. Wirt : near Burning 

 Spring. Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). Randolph: 

 near Pickens (H. H. Smith 1357). 

 C. ROSEA Schk. 



Fayette: R. R. bank near Nuttallburg (Nuttall'). 

 Var. RADIATA Dewey. 



Open places. Monongalia: near Round Bottom. Wirt: 

 along Straight Creek. Randolph : on Point Mountain, alt. 

 3,450 ft. ; also on a dry rock, alt. 3,650 ft. (Millspaugh) ; 

 western slope of the main ridge of the Alleghany Mountains 

 above Horton (Greenman, 116). Fayette: cliffs, rocks and 

 banks, near Nuttallburg (Nuttall). 



