40 Report of the State Botanist. 



Carex Emmonsii Deic var. elliptica Boott. 



In the Eic^hteenth 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 (iiij-To o^ ^ 1^^® long, -j^ 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, 

 Knieskern. 



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 whdm 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-mucronate 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, prominently stipitate, 1 

 line or more long. 



Helderberg mountains, Albany county ; Brownville, Jefferson 

 county ; Elizabethtown, 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 



