REPOET OF THE STATE BOTANIST 177 



above into a short, slender, bidentate beak, mostly covered by 

 the ovate acute or ])ointed whitish scale. 



Damp soil in shaded hilly places. Rare. Rensselaer county. 

 June. 



The distant lowest pistillate spike with its long slender green 

 bract and the very narrow short-ped uncled staminate spike are 

 noticeable features of this species. 



90. Carex Peckii Howe. 



Strongly stoloniferous ; stems 3'-lS' high, slender, erect or 

 spreading, smooth, purplish and lightly fibrillose at base ; leaves 

 mostly much shorter than the culm, 1"-U" wide, open and Hat, 

 soft, erect or spreading, rough-margined, bright green ; staminate 

 spike linear, ]|-"-3" long, sessile, often invisible, scales brown, 

 white-margined ; pistillate spikes 2-3, ovoid, sessile, 2-8 closely 

 flowered, the upper two crowded, usually concealing the stamin- 

 ate spike, each with a green setaceous or short awned, divergent 

 bract mostly not longer than the spike, the lowest H'-S" distant, 

 subtended by a green divergent bract about twice the leng.h of 

 the spike; perigynia triangalar-elliptical, If "-2" long, f" broad, 

 hairy, ^yith an evenly tapering base and a short bidentate beak, 

 longer than the ovate acute or cuspidate whitish or brownish 

 scale ; achenium exactly elliptical, f" wide, substipitate, the style 

 deciduous at its base. 



Dry soil in woods and open places. May, June. Albany, 

 Essex, Jefferson, Cayuga and Yates counties. 



This is C. Emmonsii Dew. var. elliptica Boott. 



91. Carex deflexa Ilomem. 

 Densely tufted ; stems 2'--6' high, capillary, curved, <lilfuse, 

 smooth; basal bracts acute or cuspidate fibrillose, dull brown or 

 purple; leaves shorter or longer than tlie culm, i" -i" wide, smooth, 

 open and flat; staminate spike small .inil inconspicuous; pistillate 

 spikes 1-3, usually 2, contiguous, 3-0 Hoovered, I'-U ' in length 

 and thicloiess, green or brownish, the lowest slightly ped uncled 

 with a green (iliform bract ti"--!" long; railioal spikes occasional ; 

 perigynia pyriform, tii-costate, thinly pubescent, contracted 

 above into a short, flat, slightly curved or obli(jue beak, a little 

 exceeding the ovate acute or acutish, green and purple glume. 

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