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were collected in June. Doctor Howe considers the species * 

 related to Carex dejlexa rather than to C. Emmonsii. Both its 

 peculiar appearance and its distinctive spikes and fruit lead me 

 also to tbink it is a valid species. 



Carex Hough tonii Torr. 

 Near Elizabethtown. May. This rare species has been 

 observed in several places by Prof. Burt and myself in Saratoga 

 and Essex counties, but I am not aware of its occurrence else- 

 where in the State. It is an early flowering species, and delights 

 in light sandy soil, through which it extends its creeping 

 rootstocks. 



Carex utriculata Boott . 

 A small form of this species is found in the Adirondack region. 

 Its spikes are scarceh" more than an inch long, being smaller 

 even than those of variety minor. 



Setaria viridis Bv. 

 The form of this grass noticed in the Thirty-fourth Eeport, p. 

 56,, still persists about Albany and in its streets and yards. The 

 same or a similar form is said, by Dr. Yasey in his Monograph of 

 the Grasses of the United States and Canada, p. 38, to occur in the 

 South. It is easily distinguished from the ordinary form of the 

 species, and appears to be very constant in its characters. I have 

 labeled' our specimens Yar. purpurascens, and the grass has 

 been published and essentially characterized under this name by 

 Prof. Dudley in his Catalogue of Cayuga plants, p. 122. Its 

 spike-like panicle is more slender than in the type, 2.5 to 3 inches 

 long, about 6 lines broad, iucludiag the setae, 2.5 to 3 lines exclu- 

 sive of the set£e, the clusters toward the base separated and 

 verticillate as in S. verticillata, the setie tinged with purple. 

 Its resemblance to S. verdcillata is closer than to ^S". viridis but 

 its setas are barbed upwards. 



Festuca ovina X. 

 The sheep's fescue is rare with us. A small patch of it was 

 observed on the banks of the Delaware river at Narrowsburg. 

 July. The specimens have the tall cuhns of variety duriuscula, 

 but the panicle is contracted and the leaves involute. 

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